| Polycarp's Progress (1935) | To my mother and father |
| Fly Away Paul (1936) | To my wife |
| Everyman's England (1936) | To Polly and Jojo (These are a dog and a cat) |
| Mr Finchley Goes to Paris (1938) | To R. Percy Hodder-Williams and Ralph Hodder-Williams (of the publishers Hodder and Stoughton) |
| Every Creature of God is Good (as Alan Gould: 1939) |
To my wife |
| The Viaduct (as Alan Gould: 1939) | To MOTHER MAC (presumably his mother-in-law, Mrs McEwen) |
| Mr Finchley Takes the Road (1940) | For my daughter Lindel |
| Green Battlefield (1943) | To the memory of my daughter Virginia |
| The Chasm (1947) | To C.J.B.M., W.D.S, and P.F.C. |
| Panther's Moon (1948) | To Lindel and Hilary |
| The Golden Salamander (1949) | To my wife |
| The House of the Seven Flies (1952) | To the captain and mate of Cora |
| Castle Minerva (1955) | To my wife |
| Firecrest (1971) | To Daniel Richmond with apologies for poaching on his fishing rights |
| The Runaways (1971) | For Duncan now; and Hugo later (Duncan was his stepson and Hugo his grandson.) |
| The Rainbird Pattern (1972) | For Diana with love (Diana Bird, whom he would marry in 1975) |
| The Flight of the Grey Goose (1973) | For Fiona with love (his stepdaughter) |
| The Painted Tent (1974) | For Jack and Molly |
| The Crimson Chalice (1976) | For my wife, Diana, with love |
| The Doomsday Carrier (1976) | For Adria with love (Adria Irving-Bell, whom he married in November 1976) |
| The Circle of the Gods (1977) | Affectionately for Diana Charnock Smith (sister of Adria Canning) |
| The Immortal Wound (1978) | With love—'To the one who wept when the dream ended' |
| Fall from Grace (1980) | For Eileen M. Cond, semper fidelis (Warwicksire socialite who wrote to many authors asking them to sign books for her) |
| Raven's Wind (1983) | For Dorotea Irving-Bell (sister-in-law of Adria Canning) |
| Table Number Seven (1987: posthumous) |
This book is dedicated to Victor Canning's readers |