Frank Grimes

In this Man Booker Prize winning novel, Max, an elderly art historian who has lost his wife to cancer, revisits the seaside resort where he spent a memorable childhood holiday. Man Booker Prize Winner.

Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never made permanent. He has wandered the world, following his childhood ambition to better himself. Then in 1957, in his lodgings in Accra, he sets out to write his story.