Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, he yearns for a place he can call home. He marries into the Tulsi family, on whom he becomes dependent, but rebels and takes on a succession of occupations in a struggle to weaken their hold over him.

Presents the story of historical upheaval and social breakdown.

A white man arrives on a troubled Caribbean island with his mistress, an English woman influenced by fantasies of native power and sexuality, unaware of the consequences of her actions. Together with a leader of the revolution , they act out a gripping drama of death, sexual violence, and spiritual impotence.

In 1950, V S Naipaul travelled from Trinidad to England to take up a place at Oxford University. Over the next few years letters passed back and forth between V S Naipaul and his family - particularly his beloved father Seepersad, but also his mother and siblings. This title features a collection of letters on the craft of writing.

Life in Trinidad is described through the eyes of a street rab in Miguel Street. The happy-go-lucky community abounds in eccentric characters.

An account of a journey around India. Using interviews with people from many different walks of life, this book builds an oral history of a country constantly on the move.

The Booker Prize winner and towering figure of post-colonial literature on why he became a writer.

Includes the two novels The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street .

Presents an account of the author's journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia; 'the believers' are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith in the hope of restoring order to a chaotic world.

A collection of essays which features pieces taken from the books - The Overcrowded Barracoon , The Return of Eva Peron and Finding the Centre .

Ralph Singh has spent a lifetime struggling against the torment of cultural displacement. His memories lead him to recognize the paradoxes and fantasies of his childhood. But the return of Isabella and his immersion in the political atmosphere of a self-governing nation provide Singh with insight to discover the crux of his disillusionment.

A reflective journey by the author in the late 1980s through the American South. He writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers, ordinary men and women, both black and white.

Tells first of an Indian servant in Washington, then of an Asian West Indian in London who is in jail for murder. Then the story moves to Africa, to a fictional country something like Uganda or Rwanda. The two main characters are English. They once found Africa liberating, but now it has gone sour on them.

Set in Africa, in a place like Uganda or Rwanda and its two main characters are English. They had once found liberation in Africa. But now Africa is going sour on them. The land is no longer safe, and at a time of tribal conflict they have to make a long drive to the safety of their compound.

This novel follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, the outsider who refuses to conform to the customs of his grander in-laws in whose house he lives. Finally finding a house of his own, he triumphs over the smaller minds who would repress him.

Presents an account of the author's journey in 1950 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad. This work provides a study of societies - British Guyana, Surinam, Martinique and Jamaica - examining their common heritage of colonialism and slavery.

An account of the author's first visit to India. This book describes the author's arrival in prohibition-dry Bombay, bearing whisky and cheap brandy, when he began to experience a sense of cultural estrangement from the subcontinent. It provides a revelation of India and of the author.

Taking its title from a picture by surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, this is the story of a young Indian from the Crown Colony of Trinidad, who arrives in post-imperial England. He observes the gradual but profound changes wrought on the English countryside by the march of progress .

Reflects an intellect engaged with the challenges of assimilation faced by the 'serious traveller', one for whom there can be no single world view. This book brings clarity and experience to an exploration of the ways we think, see and feel.