The latest novel by Kittitian-British author Caryl Phillips, Another Man in the Street, was published earlier this year (2025) by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, in the UK, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, in the U.S. The New York Times calls it “The powerful and evocative story of a young West Indian man’s search for home in 1960s London – by the multi-award-winning author dubbed ‘one of the literary giants of our time.’”
Description: 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 the early Sixties, Victor ‘Lucky’ Johnson arrives in London from St Kitts, with dreams of becoming a journalist. Lucky soon finds work first at an Irish pub in Notting Hill – then as a rent collector for an unscrupulous slum landlord Peter Feldman.
Shadowing Lucky from his early struggles in London to the present day, Caryl Phillips paints a striking portrait of a flawed but vividly alive man grappling with the lifelong disillusionments of exile – and the uniquely complicated identity of the Windrush generation.
Another Man in the Street is an unforgettable story of loss, displacement, belonging, and the triumph of Black resilience – epic in scope and yet profoundly intimate; and a radical and timely portrait of immigrant London.
Caryl Phillips was born in St Kitts, brought up in Leeds, and he now lives in New York.Phillipsis the award-winning author of eleven novels, four stage plays and five volumes of non-fiction, in addition to numerous radio plays, scripts and essays. His latest fiction, A View of the Empire at Sunset (2018), focuses on the life of Dominican-born writer Jean Rhys. Identity, migration and history are among the main themes of his writing, which also stands out for its formal daring.
His novel A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and Dancing in the Dark won the PEN Open Book Award. His other honors include a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Britain’s oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York.
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The latest novel by Kittitian-British author Caryl Phillips, Another Man in the Street, was published earlier this year (2025) by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, in the UK, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, in the U.S. The New York Times calls it “The powerful and evocative story of a young West Indian man’s search for home in
