V.S. Naipaul revisits the countries that featured in his 1981 book, 'Among the Believers', to survey the development of these Islamic states. He combines the ability to write great travel literature with a sharply original political mind.

'The Loss of El Dorado' exposes the barbaric cruelties of slavery and torture and their consequences on all strata of society - from the idealist to the reactionary - in a moving account which penetrates often-overlooked aspects of a complex society."

This is the author's account of his journey in 1960 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad. He has recorded his impressions of Trinidad and former colonies in the West Indies and South America.

This collection of V.S. Naipul's essays, the first of two volumes, features pieces taken from his earlier books - 'The Overcrowded Barracoon', 'The Return of Eva Peron' and 'Finding the Centre' and other essays. It concentrates on his writings about India, the Americas, Africa and the Diaspora.

Set on a troubled Caribbean island where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist, 'Guerrillas' is a novel of British colonialism and revolution."

'The Mimic Men' is a moving novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the postcolonial world. Naipaul is the author of 13 works of fiction and has won many prizes including the Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The theme of this book is African belief. Naipaul's journey takes in Uganda, at the centre of the continent, Ghana and Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and Gabon, and ends at the bottom of the continent, in South Africa.

Willy Chandran's father married a low caste woman, and soon came to loathe the sight of her. From this unhappy union, Willy and his sister were born. It is from here that 'Half A Life' takes off as we follow Willy's journey to find a place in the world.

A novel which explores colonial inheritance through a series of narratives, Naipaul offers a personal choice of examples of Spanish and British imperial history in the Caribbean, including an imagined vision of Raleigh's last expedition and an introduction to Francisco de Miranda, a would-be liberator and precursor to Bolivar."

This is a reflective journey in which V.S. Naipaul travels through the American South in the 1980s. He writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white.