The setting of The Picnic at Sakkara , a delightful comedy, is Egypt in the days of King Farouk. Edgar Perry, a lecturer at Cairo University, finds himself in a world ...

Revolution and Roses is set in Alexandria, its period the week leading up to King Farouk’s abdication, its cast English, Greek and Egyptian, its action swift and exciting.

It ...

Following on from The Picnic at Sakkara and Revolution and Roses , A Guest and His Going is the final novel in P. H. Newby’s acclaimed Anglo-Egyptian comic trilogy. Set ...

A novel of the Mediterranean from P. H. Newby, the first ever winner of the Booker Prize.

Set on the island of Sankilos, Agents and Witnesses is the story of ...

P. H. Newby’s third novel tells the story of Mariner, a schoolmaster in Paris. Egotistical and unscrupulous, he abducts a young girl, imposing them both on the kindness of ...

It was 1956 and he was in Port Said. About these two facts Townrow was reasonably certain. He had been summoned there, to Egypt, by the widow of his deceased ...

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, A Journey to the Interior was P. H. Newby’s debut novel, first published in 1945.

In the desert Sultanate of Rasuka, the European ...

The story of the Nashes, P. H. Newby’s A Season in England brilliantly tackles, with freshness, insight and humour, the ancient theme of a young man in revolt against ...

As a boy Oscar Hanner tried to run away to Africa, only to end up in Cardiff Docks. Nearly forty years later, as an accountant employed to investigate failing companies ...

On arrival as a medical orderly at Suez in 1941, Faulkes is surprised and alarmed to be greeted by a ghost from his family's past. Grinning and dropping enigmatic hints, ...