Books by caryl phillips

A brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical facts, this novel tells the stories of three black men whose lives speak resoundingly to the ... More

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A novel about personal crisis and momentous social conflict, Caryl Phillips sixth novel tells the inextricably linked stories of a young Jewish woman ... More

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In 1984 the novelist Caryl Phillips set off on a journey across Europe in an attempt to clarify the fundamental question of his identity - as he put ... More

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Cambridge is a powerful and haunting novel set in that uneasy time between the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of the slaves. It is ... More

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'Bert Williams is the funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew.' W. C. Fields Born in the Bahamas in 1874 and brought up there and in ... More

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The English village is a place where people come to lick their wounds. Dorothy has walked away from a bad thirty-year marriage, an affair gone sour ... More

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In The Atlantic Sound Caryl Phillips explores the complex notion of what constitutes 'home'. Seen through the historical prism of the Atlantic Slave ... More

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Caryl Phillips's first novel tells the story of Leila, a nineteen-year-old woman living on a small Caribbean island in the 1950s. Unsatisfied with ... More

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In Higher Ground, Caryl Phillips presents three characters separated by time and distance but united by the profound sympathy he has for their ... More

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Bertram Francis, a British West Indian, has spent the last 20 years away from the Carribean. Now independence is looming and he is going back to see ... More

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Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson, afforded an unusual depth of freedom, which, after Johnson's death, ... More

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From stately lawns and gentlemen players to Andre Agassi and Venus Williams, 65 great writings on tennis chronicle the transformation of the sport in ... More

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The Africa of his ancestry, the Caribbean of his birth, the Britain of his upbringing, and the United States where he now lives are the focal points ... More

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A voice speaking out of a distant past, describes the consequences of his desperation: his daughter and two sons are condemned to the hold of an ... More

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The streets of modern-day London are hectic, multicultural, and difficult to read if you are a white-collar, middle-aged man. Keith is a social ... More

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What do we mean by 'English'? How does that image square with reality? And how does our island look from abroad, and what aspects of our experience ... More

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Caryl Phillips has collected writings by thirty-nine extravagant strangers: British writers who were born outside of Britain and see it with clear ... More

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The Africa of his ancestry, the Caribbean of his birth, the Britain of his upbringing, and the United States where he now lives are the focal points ... More

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"A New World Order" ranges widely across the Atlantic World that Caryl Phillips has charted in his award winning novels and non-fiction. He argues ... More

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