Caryl Phillips is a novelist, playwright and essayist, currently Professor of English at Yale University. Born in St Kitts, he came to Britain at the age of four months. He grew up in Leeds and studied English Literature at Oxford University. He was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 1992 and was on the 1993 Granta list of Best of Young British Writers. His literary awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a British Council Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the PEN/Open Book Award, and his work has been longlisted and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of the Arts, and recipient of the 2013 Anthony N. Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence.

Another Man in the Street is the story of Victor ‘Lucky’ Johnson, a young man from the Caribbean who moves to London in the 1960s with dreams of becoming a journalist. He finds work first at an Irish pub in Notting Hill – then as a rent collector for an unscrupulous slum landlord Peter Feldman.

Shuttling between the end of Victor’s life and his early struggles in London, Phillips paints a vivid portrait of a flawed and complex protagonist grappling with the disillusionments of exile – and of a vibrantly alive and rapidly changing London.

Publication is scheduled for early 2025, and will backed by a major international marketing and publicity campaign.

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