Last orders ([Abridged ed.])

Now available on audio - the winner of the 1996 Booker Prize, and now a major new film starring Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Michael Caine and Ray Winstone.

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 Order is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives