Book description
‘Beautifully written, gentle, funny, truthful, touching and profound’
Salman Rushdie
Last Orders
is a much-loved classic of English literature. It won both the 1996
Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2001, it was
adapted into an award-winning film starring Michael Caine and Bob
Hoskins.
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 Orders
is Graham Swift’s most poignant exploration of the complexity and
courage of ordinary lives.
In 2012 Picador celebrates its 40th anniversary. During that time we
have published many prize-winning and bestselling authors including Bret
Easton Ellis and Cormac McCarthy, Alice Sebold and Helen Fielding,
Graham Swift and Alan Hollinghurst. Years later, Picador continue to
bring readers the very best contemporary fiction, non-fiction and poetry
from across the globe.
Discover more at picador. com/40 Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is
the author of eight acclaimed novels and a collection of short stories;
his most recent work is Making an Elephant
, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in
writing. With Waterland
he won the Guardian
Fiction Prize (1983), and with Last Orders
the Booker Prize (1996). Both novels have since been made into films.
Graham Swift's work has appeared in over thirty languages.
