The Malayan Trilogy

<p>'Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives his creations as much as he writes them. First class'<br><i>Observer</i><br><br>Anthony Burgess was an officer in the Colonial Service. In <i>The Malayan Trilogy</i> - <i>Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket</i> and <i>Beds in the East </i>- 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.</p>