Last Orders
British novelist, born 1949. Won the Booker Prize in 1996.
Last Orders is a 1996 novel by Graham Swift. It won the Booker Prize in 1996.
In family saga
On 3 of the 20 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Graham Swift
- First published
- 1996
- Length
- 400 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Booker Prize winner, 1996
- Costa Novel Award shortlist, 1996
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Family saga, Class and society
Is Last Orders worth reading?
3 of the 20 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Booker Prize and 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.co.uk).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.co.uk, 2014) | Listed | See the list |
| Booker Prize (winners and shortlists) (Booker Prize Foundation, 1996) | Winner | See the list |
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 1996) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of Last Orders
The edition we link to is the Scribner UK paperback (2019), 400 pages.
- Publisher
- Scribner UK (paperback, 2019)
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN
- 9781471187292
How critics, prizes and readers rate Last Orders
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 56% of the points available on prize lists, against 13% on readers' and booksellers' lists and 0% on critics' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work