Caryl Phillips

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1989
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • Higher Ground

    In Higher Ground , Caryl Phillips presents three characters separated by time and distance but united by the profound sympathy he has for their humanity. In the first story, a young West African is oppressed by the shadow of slavery; in the second ...

  • Cambridge

    One of England's most widely acclaimed young novelists adopts two eerily convincing narrative voices and juxtaposes their stories to devastating effect in this mesmerizing portrait of slavery. Cambridge is a devoutly Christian slave in the West Indie...

  • Crossing the River

    From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his thre...

  • The Passion of Joan Paul II

  • A State of Independence

    Phillips examines the transitions of a Caribbean nation from colonialism to a dubious state of independence through the experiences of Bertram Francis, a young man who leaves St. Kitts at the age of thirteen to study law on a coveted scholarship in E...

  • The Final Passage

    From the British-West Indian novelist who is rapidly emerging as the bard of the African diaspora comes a haunting work about “the final passage” -- the exodus of black West Indians from their impoverished islands to the uncertain opportunities o...

  • The Nature of Blood

    A German Jewish girl whose life is destroyed by the atrocities of World War II . . . her uncle, who undermines the sureties of his own life in order to fight for Israeli statehood . . . the Jews of a 15th-century Italian ghetto . . Othello, newly arr...

  • Extravagant Strangers

    Shakespeare called Othello "an extravagant and wheeling strangers/Of here and every where."  In this exciting anthology, Caryl Phillips has collected writings by thirty-nine extravagant strangers: British writers who were born outside of Britain...

  • The Right Set

    From stately lawns and gentlemen players to Andre Agassi and Venus Williams: 65 great writings on tennis that chronicle the transformation of the sport.Since its inception, tennis has embraced traditions more patrician than plebeian. But times--and t...



  • A Distant Shore

    Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love. And yet each harbors secrets that may make atta...

  • Dancing in the Dark

    In this searing novel, Caryl Phillips reimagines the life of the first black entertainer in the U.S. to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.After years of struggling for success on the stage, Bert Williams (1874 -- 1922), the child of recent...

  • Foreigners

    A powerful and affecting new book from Caryl Phillips: a brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose lives speak resoundingly to the place and role of the foreigner in English society. ...

  • In the Falling Snow

    From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another. Keith -- born in England in the early 1960s to immigrant West Indian paren...

  • The Lost Child

    Caryl Phillips's The Lost Child is a sweeping story of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves from it. At its center is Monica Johnson―cut off from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner―and her ...

  • A View of the Empire at Sunset

    Award-winning author Caryl Phillips presents a biographical novel of the life of Jean Rhys, the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, which she wrote as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Caryl Phillips’s A VIEW OF THE EMPIRE AT SUNSET is the...

  • Strange Fruit

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  • Another Man in the Street

    Caryl Phillips, who "pits himself against any kind of received wisdom” (London Review of Books), gives us a hypnotic, heartbreaking novel lit by the bright and changing lights of 1960s London.In London's swinging sixties, Victor Johnson, a young im...

Award-Winning Books by Caryl Phillips

Dancing in the Dark
2006 PEN Literary Award -- Open Book


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Caryl Phillips has published 18 books.

The next book by Caryl Phillips, Another Man in the Street, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Caryl Phillips, Higher Ground, was published in September 1989.

No. Caryl Phillips does not write books in series.
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