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A Division of the Spoils

Paul Scott

The Raj Quartet’s concluding volume follows lives entangled in the final wartime years, as personal consequences emerge from colonial divisions and conflict.

Crime & mystery

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Staying On

Paul Scott

British residents and their servants remain in an Indian hill town after independence, negotiating changed circumstances and the stubborn habits of the past.

Literary fiction

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The Day of the Scorpion

Paul Scott

Interconnected lives carry the reader through wartime British India, where political pressure and personal loyalties complicate the fading certainties of empire.

Crime & mystery

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The Jewel in the Crown

Paul Scott

A relationship across colonial divisions draws competing voices into a story of accusation, prejudice and the pressures of British India in wartime.

Literary fiction

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The Raj Quartet

Paul Scott

Four connected novels follow British India’s final wartime years, weaving individual relationships into the gathering crisis of colonial power and independence.

Historical fiction

The Towers of SilencePaul Scott

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The Towers of Silence

Paul Scott

Wartime British India appears through interwoven lives, as private memories and social expectations reveal the instability beneath the routines of colonial society.

Crime & mystery

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