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Naipaul: "I think we were asked to do that [to write thank-you note to Somerset Maugham]. And I did. Then there came his reply from Claridge’s Hotel in London." Dec. 6, 2001 ...

The surname, Naipaul, has almost become synonymous with Sir V.S. Naipaul, undoubtedly the most famous member of the Naipaul family. But the Naipaul family, which boasted the novelist brother-duo, ...

Peach trees, picnics and very proper people seemed essential to works of fiction. I’d never seen any of those things. Then, someone in our house brought home a copy of Miguel Street.

You’d be glad to know that your father’s stories and journalism were finally published by Peepal Tree Press in 2024, titled Seepersad Naipaul, Amazing Scenes: Selected Journalism 1928-1953. Of your ...

Several of them make appearances in Seepersad’s daughter Savi Naipaul Akal’s recently published memoirs, The Naipauls of Nepaul Street. Also read: A tribute to comedy legend Bob Newhart (1929 ...

Over the years I read Naipaul’s books and met him a number of times on literary occasions and when he came on his visits to Guyana. Once I had gone to the Pegasus hotel with others to meet him ...

BOOK EXCERPT Nobel laureate VS Naipaul’s sister writes about being Indian in a Creole society in her memoir An excerpt from ‘The Naipauls of Nepaul Street’, by Savi Naipaul Akal.

Both books are published by UK-based Peepal Tree Press. Rohlehr’s book, A Literary Friendship, completed a few months before his death last year, is subtitled Selected Notes on the Kamau ...

The work that smaller, independent publishers like Akashic Book, Peepal Tree Press, and Banyan Books do to discover new writers is yet another crucial part of the story.

Monty Norman, the prolific composer and lyricist whose works include the famous James Bond theme tune, has died at the age of 94, his family have confirmed. The child of Latvian immigrants, Norman ...