English Passengers

First edition. Royal 8vo. Pp. [x], 462, [1]. Maroon cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt to spine; pebble grey endpapers. Note on language, Anglo-Manx glossary.

Hint of toning to textblock edges, else Fine in a Mint jacket.

Winner of the 2000 Whitbread Novel of the Year and the overall Whitbread Book of the Year. In French translation, it won the 2002 Prix Relay du roman d'évasion for its style and imagination. Short-listed for the 2000 Booker Prize and the 2001 Miles Franklin Award, the first time a non-Australian was so honoured.

Author's fourth novel, recounted in a multi-voice narrative. The story of an 1857 sea-voyage by three eccentric Englishmen aboard a Tasmania bound Manx contrabandist ship, in search of the Garden of Eden. "'Deeply impressive... Every page fizzes with linguistic invention." –Steven Poole, The Guardian