Last Orders Film Tie-In (Winner Of The Booker Prize 1996)

Description: Winner of the 1996 Booker Prize, and now a major new film starring Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren and Michael Caine. Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre day's outing, Last Order is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives.

Review: 'Inspired... His finest novel yet' Guardian 'Tragic, comic and wonderfully compassionate' Daily Mail 'A triumph... A novel that unflinchingly contemplates human perishability, and that also pays unsentimental tribute to human resilience' Sunday Times



Prizes: Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1996.

Author Biography: Graham Swift was born in London in 1949. He is the author of five other novels: The Sweet Shop Owner, Shuttlecock, Waterland (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Guardian Fiction Award, the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour). Out of this World and Ever After, which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger. He has also published a collection of short stories, Learning to Swim. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.