Which British author wrote the 1996 Booker winning novel “Last Orders”?
Last Orders Last Orders Last Orders is a 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel by British writer Graham Swift. In 2001 it was adapted for the film "Last Orders" by Australian writer and director Fred Schepisi. The story makes much use of flashbacks to tell the convoluted story of the relationships between a group of war veterans who live in the same corner of London, the backbone of the story being the journey of the group from Bermondsey to Margate to scatter the ashes of Jack Dodds into the sea, in accord with his last wishes. The narrative is split into short sections told
The Last Full Measure (novel) The Last Full Measure (novel) The Last Full Measure (published May 2, 2000, by Ballantine Books; (), () is the sequel to "The Killer Angels" and "Gods and Generals". Together, the three novels complete an American Civil War trilogy relating events from 1858 to 1865. "The Last Full Measure" (and "Gods and Generals", 1996) was written by Jeffrey Shaara after his father, Michael Shaara, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Killer Angels" died in 1988. Employing the same style as the previous two books in the series, "The Last Full Measure" takes the reader inside the minds of several of