The Last King of Scotland

Paperback original. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 330. Pictorial card covers. Jacket illustration by Steve Caplin.

Signed by Author to title-page.

Foden's debut novel. Winner of the 1998 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Somerset Maugham Prize. A 1999 Betty Trask Award winner. A darkly comic insight into the mind of the Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin. Interweaving historical fact and fiction, The Last King of Scotland [one of the many titles which the tyrant bestowed upon himself] tells the story of a young Scottish doctor who gets appointed his personal physician.

Basis for the 2006 big screen adaptation directed by Kevin Macdonald, which garnered Forest Whitaker the Oscar for Best Actor as well as a Golden Globe award. "Giles Foden moves effortlessly through every register from farce to gruesome tragedy, transfiguring his depressing subject with energy and panache." –Michael Kerrigan, Times Literary Supplement