Paul Scott

The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years, has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Second World War and …

The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years, has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Second World War and …

A Division of the Spoils is the 1975 novel by Paul Scott that concludes his Raj Quartet.

Book III only of the Raj Quartet. A spectacular explosion of history set off within the lives of a dozen or so Britons and Indians on the edges of vast change. (New York Times)

The Towers of Silence is the 1971 novel by Paul Scott that continues his Raj Quartet. It gets its title from the Parsi Towers of Silence where the bodies of the dead are left to be picked clean by vultures. The novel is set in the British Raj of 1940s India. It follows on from the storyline in the The Day of the …

The Day of the Scorpion is the 1968 novel by Paul Scott, the second in his Raj Quartet.