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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1966
  • Latest Book:
    April 2017
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Full Series List in Order

The Raj Quartet

1 - Jewel in the Crown (1966)
2 - The Day of the Scorpion (1968)
3 - The Towers of Silence (1971)
4 - A Division of the Spoils (1975)
4 - A Division of Spoils (Oct-2012)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Jewel in the Crown

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    The Raj Quartet - 1

    The first novel in the epic quartet about the last days of British rule in India, “as much a story of romantic love as it is of crime . . . an artful triumph” (The New Yorker).The Jewel in the Crown is the first of Paul Scott’s r...

  • The Day of the Scorpion

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    The Raj Quartet - 2

    Second in the epic quartet capturing life at the end of British rule in India, “an achievement of unusual dimensions and power” (The Observer (UK)).In The Day of the Scorpion, Scott draws us deeper in to his epic of India at the close of World Wa...

  • The Towers of Silence

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    The Raj Quartet - 3

    Third in the epic quartet about the end of the Raj: “Scott throws us into India, wretched and beautiful . . . His contribution to literature is permanent.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewIndia, 1943: In a regimental hill station...

  • A Division of the Spoils

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    The Raj Quartet - 4

    The great war is over, and India--the jewel in the British crown--has been deemed worthless: a bauble to be tossed to the winds. A colonial policeman corrupted by ambition, power, and hatred goes to shocking extremes of cruelty to perpetuate a disapp...

  • Staying on

    The Booker Prize winner. “[One of] the top 10 books about the British in India . . . the book is a joy and makes an elegiac farewell to the Raj.” -- Ferdinand Mount, The Guardian In this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colone...

  • The Mark of the Warrior

    In 1942, defeat aroused the British government and the British survivors of Burma to start their own training schools in India, where the cadets learned the reflexive instinct to fight, kill and survive...

  • Love Pavilion

  • The Bender

  • The Birds of Paradise

    From the author of The Raj Quartet, a coming-of-age tale about a boy and his childhood friendships with a British diplomat’s daughter and the son of a Raj.The Birds of Paradise is set in India when the British Raj still seemed a paradise, but a par...



  • The Corrida at San Feliu

  • On Writing and the Novel

  • A Male Child

  • Saturnalia

  • Six Days in Marapore

    In this swiftly paced and lyrical novel about British expatriates at the time of Indian independence, Paul Scott grapples with the themes of race, possession, and history that dominate all four novels of his masterpiece, The Raj Quartet, especially T...

  • The Raj Quartet - Vol 1

  • The Raj Quartet - Vol 2

  • I Need Help

  • A Division of Spoils

    The Raj Quartet - 4

    The conclusion of the “majestic” quartet about the waning days of the British empire in India, “a commanding achievement” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).After exploiting India’s divisions for years, the British are departing in such haste...

  • The Chinese Love Pavilion

    Paul Scott is most famous for his much-beloved tetralogy The Raj Quartet, an epic that chronicles the end of the British rule in India with a cast of vividly and memorably drawn characters. Inspired by Scott’s own time spent in India and Malaya dur...



  • Radical

    "As a kid, Cody had an idyllic life in small-town America. He was a popular boy who excelled at running and loved deeply his girlfriend, Jazzie. But just when Cody thinks life is great, fate takes an unexpected and horrible turn. Devastated by this, ...

Award-Winning Books by Paul Scott

Staying on
1977 Man Booker Prize -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Paul Scott has published 20 books.

Paul Scott does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Radical, was published in April 2017.

The first book by Paul Scott, Jewel in the Crown, was published in January 1966.

Yes. Paul Scott has 1 series.
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