Malayan Trilogy

'Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives his creations as much as he writes them. First class' Observer . Anthony Burgess was an officer in the Colonial Service. In The Malayan Trilogy - Time for a Tiger The Enemy in the Blanket and Beds in the East - he satirises the dog days of colonialism. Victor Crabbe is a well meaning ineffectual English man in the tropics keen to teach the Malays what the West can do for them. Through Crabbe's rise and fall and a series of wonderfully colourful characters Burgess lays bare racial and social prejudices of post-war Malaya during the upheaval of Independence.