Gary Younge meets ‘one of the literary giants of our time’ (New York Times), Caryl Phillips, for an unforgettable story of loss, displacement, belonging, and the triumph of Black resilience.

Caryl Phillips came to the UK from St Kitts at four months old in 1958 and went on to earn acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic as a literary polymath equally renowned for his novels, plays, and non-fiction. His work investigates displacement and belonging, identity and exclusion, and the meaning of home and nationhood with a clarity and iconoclastic originality that place him in the highest tier of English letters.

Now he joins Gary Younge to reveal Another Man in the Street, a new novel telling the powerful and evocative story of a young West Indian man’s search for home in 1960s London – and painting a radical and timely portrait of immigrant 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 unscrupulous slum landlord Peter Feldman.

Shadowing Lucky from his early struggles in London to the present day, Caryl’s novel 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.

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