He returned to England in 1957, determined to seek greater depth in his writing. In 1959, he received the John Llewelyn Rhys Award for fiction for his collection of short stories, "A Long Way from London". In 1960, "The Evidence of Love" was published. It dealt with the racism involved in a romantic relationship between a black man and a white woman who were put in prison for getting married. In 1964, he received the W. Somerset Maugham Award for his first collection of essays, "Time of Arrival". One of his short stories, "The Zulu and the Zeide," was adapted into a musical and produced on Broadway in 1965. In 1966, he published "The Beginners", a longer, in-depth novel following the lives of a Jewish family after their emigration to South Africa. It was a great literary success.