| ROCK | 1938 novel by Graham Greene (8,4) |
| BRIGHTON | 1938 novel by Graham Greene (8,4) |
| BRIGHTONROCK | 1938 novel by Graham Greene whose antihero is Pinkie Brown |
| CONFIDENTIAL | "The ... ...", novel by Graham Greene written in 1938 (12,5) |
| THECOMEDIANS | 1966 novel by Graham Greene (3,9) |
| SHIPOFTHELINE | "A ... ... ... ...", 1938 novel by CS Forester (4,2,3,4) |
| EPITAPHFOR | 1938 novel by Eric Ambler (7,3,4) |
| YEARLING | "The ...", 1938 novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (8) |
| COLOURS | 1938 novel by C S Forester (6,7) (see 17A) |
| FLYING | 1938 novel by C S Forester (6,7) (see 23A) |
| FLYINGCOLOURS | 1938 novel by C S Forester |
| THESWORDINTHESTONE | 1938 novel by T H White |
| ASHIPOFTHELINE | 1938 novel by C S Forester |
| REBECCA | 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier |
| OUTOFAFRICA | 1938 novel by Karen Blixen (3,2,6) |
| ASPY | 1938 novel by Eric Ambler (7,3,1,3) |
| MURPHY | 1938 novel by Samuel Beckett |
| EPITAPH | 1938 novel by Eric Ambler (7,3,1,3) |
| FORASPY | 1938 novel by Eric Ambler (7,3,1,3) |
| THEGIFT | 1938 novel by Vladimir Nabokov (3,4) |