Patrick MacGill (24 December 1889–November 1963) was an Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known as "The Navvy Poet" because he had worked as a "navvy" (itinerant labourer) before he began writing.	During the First World War, MacGill served with the London Irish Rifles (1/18th Battalion, The London Regiment) and was wounded at the Battle of Loos in September 1915.

His titles included:

All of Patrick MacGill's novels were originally published by Herbert Jenkins in London.

1. Children of the Dead End (1914)
2. The Rat Pit (1915)
3. The Amateur Army (1915)
4. The Red Horizon (1915)
5. The Great Push (1915)
6. The Brown Brethren (1917)
7. Glenmornan (1918)
8. The Dough-Boys (1919)
9. The Diggers: The Australians in France(1919)
10. Maureen (1920)
11. Fear! (1921)
12. Lanty Hanlon (1922)
13. Moleskin Joe (1922)
14. The Carpenter of Orra (1924)
15. Sid Puddiefoot (1926)
16. Black Bonar (1928)
17. Tullivar's Mill (1934)
18. The Glen of Carra (1934)
19. The House at the World's End (1935)
20. Helen Spenser (1937)