Some more Lister snippets pending Steve Bucknell's return from Corfu:
His career included Royal Navy Torpedo Factory metallurgist 1940, Royal Aircraft Establishment metallurgist 1941-43, Ministry of Aircraft production scientific officer 1943-47, British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association liaison officer 1947-9. Went freelance in 1949 but had another spell of staff employemt 1954-57 as general editor at Macdonald and Evans Ltd , Publishers.
The torpedo work presumably explains title of his second book, the novel The Oyster and the Torpedo (1951.
I asked for Lister books in Exeter Central Library yesterday. They had only one (The Idle Demon) and I was apparently the first person to request it in 50 years
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