Connolly departed for Sicily then returned to England via Vienna, :Prague and Dresden. Connolly's first signed work in the "New Statesman", a review of Lawrence Sterne, appeared in June 1927. In July he set off to Normandy with his mother and then for his last stay at the chalet in the Alps. In August 1927, he was invited to become a regular reviewer and joined the staff of the "New Statesman". His first review in September was of "The Hotel" by Elizabeth Bowen. Also in September, Connolly moved into a flat at Yeoman's Row with Patrick Balfour. He was working on various works that never saw the light of day: a novel "Green Endings", a travel book on Spain, his diary and "A Partial Guide to the Balkans". He approached Cecil Beaton to draw the cover design for the last and he received an advance for the work although it was eventually lost.