Winner of the 1970 lost Man Booker prize in 2010!

Talks about India in 1857 - the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This is an account of survival under siege, showing how people can come to behave in extreme conditions.

Follows the tale of Brendan Archer, a Major in the British Army, who is supposed to meet the woman he thinks he will marry in Ireland. All does not go at all to plan, and this tale of romance and charming melancholy also concerns the Irish 'Troubles'.

The Best-of-Booker shortlisted novel

A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author

Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland in the aftermath of World War I in order to meet his fiancee Angela in a remote seaside hotel owned by her father. Angela dies unexpectedly, but Archer remains in Kilnalough, captivated by the Majestic and its inhabitants, and seemingly unaware of the approaching political storm.

The novelist J.G. Farrell - known to his friends as Jim - was drowned on August 11, 1979 when he was swept off rocks by a sudden storm while fishing in the West of Ireland. He was in his early forties. Had he not sadly died so young,A remarked Salman Rushdie in 2008, there is no question that he would today be one of the really major novelists

'For a novel to be witty is one thing, to tell a good story is another, to be serious is yet another, but to be all three is surely enough to make it a masterpiece' NEW STATESMAN

A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author.