Announcements

Aug 2024
New novel, Another Man in the Street, being published in the UK by Bloomsbury on Jan 16, 2025, and by Farrar Straus and Giroux Jan 7, 2025. 

June 2018
COMMONWEALTH ESSAYS AND STUDIES ISSUE DEVOTED TO CARYL PHILLIPS

Special issue of Commonwealth Essays and Studies devoted to Caryl Phillips (Volume 40, Number 1, Autumn 2017), editor: Christine Lorre-Johnston. Table of contents and purchase information available at: univ-paris3.fr.

April 2018
UPCOMING CONFERENCE ON JEAN RHYS
UK EDITION OF NEW BOOK FORTHCOMING

The UK edition of Phillips's latest novel, A View of the Empire at Sunset, will be released by Random House/Vintage on June 21st. To order it online, visit the "Where to buy" page.

February 2018
INTERVIEW

"An Interview with Caryl Phillips." Glynis Charlton interviews Caryl Phillips for The Bronte Society Gazette (Issue 74, January 2018). Phillips discusses his fascination with Emily Bronte and his contribution to the special exhibition, "Bronte 200: Making Thunder Roar." For more information, visit: bronteblog.blogspot.com.

January 2018
UPCOMING SYMPOSIUM ON THE WRITINGS OF CARYL PHILLIPS

March 10th: University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

November 2017
NEW BOOK FORTHCOMING

Phillips's latest novel, A View of the Empire at Sunset, will be published in the USA by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux on May 22nd, 2018, and by Random House/Vintage in the UK on June 21st.

From Macmillan, November 2017

"Award-winning author Caryl Phillips presents a biographical novel of the life of Jean Rhys, the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, which she wrote as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.

Caryl Phillips’s A View of the Empire at Sunset is the sweeping story of the life of the woman who became known to the world as Jean Rhys. Born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in Dominica at the height of the British Empire, Rhys lived in the Caribbean for only sixteen years before going to England. A View of the Empire at Sunset is a look into her tempestuous and unsatisfactory life in Edwardian England, 1920s Paris, and then again in London. Her dream had always been to one day return home to Dominica. In 1936, a forty-five-year-old Rhys was finally able to make the journey back to the Caribbean. Six weeks later, she boarded a ship for England, filled with hostility for her home, never to return. Phillips’s gripping new novel is equally a story about the beginning of the end of a system that had sustained Britain for two centuries but that wreaked havoc on the lives of all who lived in the shadow of the empire: both men and women, colonizer and colonized.

A true literary feat, A View of the Empire at Sunset uncovers the mysteries of the past to illuminate the predicaments of the present, getting at the heart of alienation, exile, and family by offering a look into the life of one of the greatest storytellers of the twentieth century and retelling a profound story that is singularly its own."