Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Making of the Jewel in the Crown | 1983 | Buy |
| My Appointment with the Muse: Essays, 1961-75 | 1986 | Buy |
| On Writing and the Novel: Essays | 1987 | Buy |
| Behind Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet: A Life in Letters: Volume I: The Early Years: 1940-1965 | 2011 | Buy |
| Behind Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet: A Life in Letters: Volume II: The Quartet and Beyond: 1966-1978 | 2011 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Johnnie Sahib | 1952 | Buy |
| Six Days in Marapore | 1953 | Buy |
| The Alien Sky | 1953 | Buy |
| A Male Child | 1956 | Buy |
| The Chinese Love Pavilion | 1960 | Buy |
| The Birds of Paradise | 1962 | Buy |
| The Bender | 1963 | Buy |
| The Corrida at San Feliu | 1964 | Buy |
| Staying On | 1977 | Buy |
| The Mark of the Warrior | 1979 | Buy |
| After the Funeral | 1979 | Buy |
The Raj Quartet Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| LA Joya De LA Corona | 1966 | N/A |
| The Jewel in the Crown | 1966 | Buy |
| The Day of the Scorpion | 1968 | Buy |
| Staying On | 1977 | N/A |
| The Towers of Silence | 1971 | Buy |
| A Division of the Spoils | 1975 | Buy |
Paul Scott (1920-1978) was an English novelist who served in India, Burma, and Malaya during World War II. That experience shaped virtually all of his fiction. After the war he worked as a literary agent in London before turning to full-time writing in 1960.
Scott wrote 13 novels, but his reputation rests on The Raj Quartet, a four-volume sequence set during the last years of British India. Beginning with The Jewel in the Crown (1966) and continuing through The Day of the Scorpion (1968), The Towers of Silence (1971), and A Division of the Spoils (1975), the novels examine the entangled lives of British and Indian characters as the empire ends. The series was adapted by Granada Television in the 1980s as The Jewel in the Crown, bringing Scott wide posthumous recognition.
Staying On (1977), a short coda following a minor couple from the Quartet who remain in India after independence, won the Booker Prize. Scott died in 1978, five months after the award ceremony, which he was too ill to attend. His earlier novels, from Johnnie Sahib (1952) onward, also deal with British life in India and Southeast Asia.