Author: V. S. Naipaul

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...

A House for Mr Biswas is Nobel Prize in Literature winner V. S. Naipaul's unforgettable masterpiece. Heart-rending and darkly comic, it has been ha...

A Bend in the River is V. S. Naipauls vivid exploration of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence. With an introduction by Yiyun Li, auth...

Post-colonial Africa is dissected with pitiless lucidity in this disturbing novel about an outsider, the young Indian trader, Salim, who has moved ...

Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resi...