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Bibliography BIBLIOGRApHY PRIMARY SOURCEs ANITA DEsAI FICTION BY ANITA DEsAI (IN ORdER Of FIRsT PUBLICATION) Cry, the Peacock (New Delhi: Orient Paperbacks, 1980). First published London: Peter Owen, 1963. Voices in the City (New Delhi: Orient Paperbacks, 1995). First published London: Peter Owen, 1965. Bye-Bye- Blackbird (Delhi: Vision Books, 1985). First published Delhi: Hind, 1971. The Peacock Garden (London: Heinemann, 1979). First Published Bombay: India Book House, 1974. Where Shall We Go This Summer? (Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1975). Fire on the Mountain (London: Heinemann, 1977). Games at Twilight (London: Heinemann, 1978). Clear Light of Day (London: Vintage, 2001). First published London: Heinemann, 1980. The Village by the Sea (London: Heinemann, 1982). In Custody (London: Vintage, 1999). First published London: Heinemann, 1984. Baumgartner’s Bombay (London: Chatto and Windus, 1988). © The Author(s) 2018 277 P. Vlitos, Eating and Identity in Postcolonial Fiction, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96442-3 278 BIBLIOGRAPHY ‘Games at Twilight’, in The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947–1997, ed. Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West (London: Vintage, 1997), pp.121–9. First pub- lished in Games at Twilight (London: Heinemann, 1978), pp.1–10. Scholar and Gypsy (London: Phoenix, 1996). Journey to Ithaca (London: Vintage, 2001). First published London: Heinemann, 1995. Fasting, Feasting (London: Chatto & Windus, 1999). Diamond Dust and Other Stories (London: Vintage, 2001). The Zigzag Way (London: Chatto and Windus, 2004). The Artist of Disappearance (London: Chatto and Windus, 2011). SELECTEd NON-FICTION BY ANITA DEsAI ‘A Coat of Many Colors’, in South Asian English: Structure, Use and Users, ed. Robert J. Baumgardner (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996), pp.221–30. ‘A Secret Connivance’, Times Literary Supplement, 14 September 1990, pp.972, 976. ‘Indian Fiction Today’, Daedalus, 118.4 (Fall 1989), 207–31. ‘Indian Women Writers’, in The Eye of the Beholder: Indian Writing m English, ed. Maggie Butcher (London: Commonwealth Institute, 1983), pp.54–8. ‘Introduction’ to Rabindranath Tagore, in The Home and the World, trans. Surendranath Tagore (London: Penguin, 1995), pp.7–14. ‘Introduction’ to Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (London: Everyman, 1995), pp.vii–xxi. ‘The Indian Writer’s Problems’, in Explorations in Modern Indo-English Fiction, ed. R.K. Dhawan (New Delhi: Bahri Publications, 1982), pp.223–6. First pub- lished in The Literary Criterion, 12 (Summer 1975), 26–36. ‘The Rage for the Raj’, New Republic, 25 November 1985, pp.26–30. ‘Where Cultures Clash by Night: Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie’, Washington Post, 15 March 1981, Book World, p.11. ‘Words for Salman Rushdie’, New Statesman and Society, 31 March 1989, p.25. TIMOTHY MO NOVELs BY TIMOTHY MO (IN ORdER Of FIRsT PUBLICATION) The Monkey King (London: Abacus, 1984). First published London: Deutsche, 1978. Sour Sweet (London: Deutsch, 1982). BIBLIOGRAPHY 279 Sour Sweet, TextPlus edn, int. David Yip, notes by Andrew Spicer (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1990). An Insular Possession (London: Chatto and Windus, 1986). The Redundancy of Courage (London: Chatto and Windus, 1991). Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard (London: Paddleless, 1995). Renegade or Halo2 (London: Paddleless, 2000). First published London: Paddleless, 1999. Pure (London: Turnaround Books, 2012). SELECTEd NON-FICTION BY TIMOTHY MO ‘China: Two Thrillers on the Great Leap Backwards’, Sunday Times, 17 September 1978, p.41. ‘Fighting Their Writing’, in New Writing 5, ed. Christopher Hope and Peter Porter (London: Vintage in Association with the British Council, 1996), pp.299–318. ‘File Under Nuts’, Independent, 8 May 1993, p.29. ‘From the Mines of Curry Powder’, New York Times Book Review, 28 February 1988, p.14. ‘They Will Not Apologise’, Daily Telegraph, 7 March 1998, Weekend Section, p.15. ‘Why Can’t They Write Better Novels?’, Spectator, 6 January 1996, pp.23–4. V.S. NAIpAUL V.S. NAIpAUL: FICTION (IN ORdER Of FIRsT PUBLICATION) The Mystic Masseur, int. Paul Edwards and Gordon Rohlehr (London: Heinemann, 1971). First published London: Deutsch, 1957. The Suffrage of Elvira (London: Deutsch, 1958). Miguel Street (London: Penguin, 1971). First published London: Deutsch, 1959. A House for Mr Biswas, int. Ian Buruma (London: Penguin, 1992). First published London: Deutsch, 1961. Mr Stone and the Knights Companion (London: Deutsch, 1963). The Mimic Men (London: Picador, 2002). First published London: Deutsche, 1967. A Flag on the Island (London: Deutsch, 1967). In a Free State (London: Picador, 2002). First published London: Deutsch, 1971. Guerrillas (London: Vintage, 1990). First published London: Deutsch, 1975. A Bend in the River (London: Vintage, 1989). First published London: Deutsch, 1979. 280 BIBLIOGRAPHY The Enigma of Arrival (London: Viking, 1987). A Way in the World (London: Heinemann, 1994). Half a Life (London: Picador, 2002). First published London: Picador, 2001. Magic Seeds (London: Picador, 2004). V.S. NAIpAUL: SELECTEd NON-FICTION (IN ORdER Of FIRsT PUBLICATION) The Middle Passage, correct end (London: Picador, 2001). First published London: Deutsche, 1962. An Area of Darkness (London: Picador, 2002). First published London: Deutsch, 1964. The Loss of El Dorado (London: Deutsch, 1969). The Overcrowded Barracoon and other Articles (London: Deutsche, 1972). India: A Wounded Civilization (London: Penguin, 1979). First published London: Deutsch, 1977. A Congo Diary (Los Angeles: Sylvester and Orphanos, 1980). The Return of Eva Peròn with The Killings in Trinidad (London: Deutsch, 1980). Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (London: Deutsch, 1981). Finding the Centre: Two Narratives (London: Deutsch, 1984). A Turn in the South (New York: Vintage, 1989). India: A Million Mutinies Now (London: Heinemann, 1990). Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples (London: Little, Brown and Company, 1998). Letters Between a Father and a Son (London: Abacus, 2000). First published London: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. Reading and Writing: A Personal Account (New York: New York Review Books, 2000). The Writer and the World (New York: Knopf, 2002). Literary Occasions, ed. and int. Pankaj Mishra (London: Picador, 2003). A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling (London: Picador, 2007). V.S. NAIpAUL: SELECTEd EssAYs ANd REVIEWs ‘A Note on a Borrowing by Conrad’, New York Review of Books, 16 December 1982, pp.37–8. ‘Conrad’s Darkness and Mine’, in Literary Occasions (London: Picador, 2011), pp.162–80. First published in the New York Review of Books, 17 October 1974, pp.16–21. ‘East Indian’, in Literary Occasions (London: Picador, 2011), pp.35–44. First published as ‘East Indian, West Indian’, Reporter, 32.12 (17 June 1965), pp.35–7. BIBLIOGRAPHY 281 ‘Foreword to The Adventures of Gurudeva’, in Literary Occasions (London: Picador, 2011), pp.112–27. First published in Seepersad Naipaul, The Adventures of Gurudeva and Other Stories (London: Deutsch, 1976), pp.7–22. ‘Images’, New Statesman, 24 September 1965, pp.452–3. ‘Introduction’, in East Indians in the Caribbean: Colonialism and the Struggle for Identity, ed. Bridget Brereton and Winston Dookeran (New York/Nendeln, Netherlands: Kraus International, 1982). ‘Jasmine’, in The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles (London: Deutsche, 1972), pp.23–9. First published as ‘Words on their Own’, Times Literary Supplement, 4 June 1964, pp.472–3. ‘London’, in The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles (London: Deutsch, 1972), pp.9–16. First published as ‘The Regional Barrier’, Times Literary Supplement, 15 August 1958, p.29–46. ‘My Brother’s Tragic Sense’, Spectator, 24 January 1987, pp.22–3. ‘Reading and Writing’, in Literary Occasions (London: Picador, 2011), pp.3–31. First published in New York Review of Books, 18 February 1999. ‘Speaking of Writing’, The Times, 2 January 1964, p.11. ‘Trollope in the West Indies’, Listener, 15 March 1962, p.461. ‘Two Worlds’, PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Society of America), 117.3 (1992), 479–86. ‘Without a Dog’s Chance’, New York Review of Books, 18 May 1972, pp.29–31. ‘Writing A House for Mr Biswas’, New York Review of Books, 24 November 1983, pp.22–3. SALMAN RUsHdIE FICTION BY SALMAN RUsHdIE (IN ORdER Of FIRsT PUBLICATION) Grimus (London: Vintage, 1996). First published London: Gollancz, 1975. Midnight’s Children (London: Vintage, 1995a). First published London: Cape, 1981. Midnight’s Children, int. Anita Desai (London: Everyman, 1995b). Shame (London: Vintage, 1995). First published London: Cape, 1983. The Satanic Verses (London: Vintage, 1999). First published London: Viking, 1988. Haroun and the Sea of Stories (London: Granta Books and Penguin, 1990). East, West (London: Vintage, 1995). First published London: Cape, 1994. The Moor’s Last Sigh (London: Vintage, 1996). First published London: Cape, 1995. The Ground Beneath Her Feet (London: Cape, 1999). 282 BIBLIOGRAPHY Fury (London: Cape, 2001). Shalimar the Clown (London: Cape, 2004). The Enchantress of Florence (London: Cape, 2008). Luka and the Fire of Life (London: Cape, 2010). Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Days (London: Vintage, 2016). First published London: Cape, 2015. The Golden House (London: Cape, 2017). SELECTEd NON-FICTION BY SALMAN RUsHdIE ‘An Unimportant Fire’, in Imaginary Homelands, rev. edn (London: Granta Books/Penguin, 1992), pp.139–42. First published as ‘The Council Housing that Kills’, Guardian, 3 December 1984, p.12. ‘Anita Desai’, in Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism
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