| Year | Title | First publication details | Notes | References |
|---|
| | "The Balance: A Yarn of the Good Old Days of Broad Trousers and High Necked Jumpers" | In Alec Waugh (ed.): Georgian Short Stories, Chapman and Hall, London, | [6] |
| | "A House of Gentlefolks" | In Hugh Chesterman (ed.): The New Decameron, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, | Originally published as "The Tutor's Tale" | [6] |
| | "The Manager of 'The Kremlin'" | In a series of "Real Life Stories by Famous Authors", John Bull, 15 February | [6] |
| | "Love in the Slump" | Harper's Bazaar, London, January | Originally published as "The Patriotic Honeymoon" | [6] |
| | "Too Much Tolerance" | No. 7 in a series of "The Seven Deadly Sins", John Bull, 21 May | [6] |
| | "Excursion in Reality" | Harper's Bazaar, New York, July | Originally published as "An Entirely New Angle" | [6] |
| | "Incident in Azania" | Windsor Magazine, December | [6] |
| | "Bella Fleace Gave a Party" | Harper's Bazaar, London, December | [6] |
| | "Cruise" | Harper's Bazaar, London, February | [6] |
| | "The Man Who Liked Dickens" | Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, September | Used as the basis for the final chapter of A Handful of Dust, | [6] |
| | "Out of Depth" | Harper's Bazaar, London, December | Subtitled: "An Experiment begun in Shaftesbury Avenue and Ended in Time" | [6] |
| | "By Special Request" | Harper's Bazaar, New York, October | The final episode in A Flat in London, the serialised version of A Handful of Dust | [7] |
| | "Period Piece" | In Mr Loveday's Little Outing and Other Sad Stories, Chapman and Hall, London, | [7] |
| | "Mr Loveday's Little Outing" | As "Mr Cruttwell's Little Outing" in Harper's Bazaar, New York, March | [7] |
| | "Winner Takes All" | Strand, March | [7] |
| | "An Englishman's Home" | Good Housekeeping, London, August | [7] |
| | "The Sympathetic Passenger" | The Daily Mail 4 May | Part of the "Tight Corner" series | [7] |
| | "Charles Ryder's Schooldays" | The Times Literary Supplement, 5 March | With introduction by Michael Sissons | [7] |
| | "Scott-King's Modern Europe" | (abridged) Cornhill, Summer | Published as "A Sojourn in Neutralia" in Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, November | [7] |
| | "Tactical Exercise" | "Strand", March | Published as "The Wish" in Good Housekeeping, New York, March | [7] |
| | "Compassion" | As "The Major Intervenes" in The Atlantic, July | Expanded and republished as "Compassion" in The Month, August | [7] |
| | "Basil Seal Rides Again" | Chapman and Hall, London, | [7] |