Author: V. S. Naipaul

With a preface by the author.V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men is a profound, moving and often humorous novel that evokes a colonial mans experience in...

A remarkable companion piece to The Writer and the World, Naipauls previous volume of highly acclaimed essays, Literary Occasions is a stirring con...

Set on a troubled Caribbean island where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria V. S...

The first book in V. S. Naipauls acclaimed Indian trilogy with a preface by the author. An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipauls semi-autobiographic...

During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his ...

A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with po...

The Mystic Masseur, V. S. Naipauls first published novel, is the story of the rise and rise of Ganesh, from failed primary school teacher and strug...

Miguel Street, V. S. Naipauls first written work of fiction, is set in a derelict corner of Port of Spain, Trinidad, during World War Two and is na...

Part meditation, part remembrance, A Writers People by V. S. Naipaul is a privileged insight, full of gentleness, humour and feeling, into the mind...

A collection of three classic books by V. S. Naipaul. with an introduction from Paul Theroux, author of The Great Railway Bazaar.V. S. Naipaul firs...

Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. In a Free State tells the story first of an Indian servant i...

With an introduction by Harvard professor and author Maya Jasanoff.Taking its title from a work by the surrealist painter, Giorgio de Chirico, The ...

With an introduction by publisher and acclaimed author Robert McCrum.Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize ...

In V. S. Naipaul's Magic Seeds we follow Willie Chandran, a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. In his early fort...

Moving beyond travelogue, V. S. Naipaul's The Masque of Africa considers the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Ch...

In Half a Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a low-caste mother and a father c...

'Compelling, insightful, often sombrely beautiful Sunday Telegraph Moving beyond travelogue, V. S. Naipauls The Masque of Africa considers the effe...

A Way in the World is a vastly innovative novel exploring colonial inheritance through a series of narratives that span continents, swing back and ...

Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by the surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young I...

With an introduction by author Teju Cole, A House for Mr Biswas is Nobel Prize in Literature winner V. S. Naipaul''s unforgettable masterpiece. Hea...

V. S. Naipauls first travel book, The Middle Passage, takes us on a rich and emotional journey to a place of the greatest interest his birthplace....

At the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two linked themes: the grinding down of the aborigines during the long rivalries of th...