Beryl Bainbridge

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Every Man For Himself

1996

Nominated for The Booker Prize

Winner of The Whitbread Prize For Fiction 1996

Winner of The Commonwealth Writers' Prize 1997

'A narrative both sparkling and deep . . . the cost of raising [the Titanic] is prohibitive; Bainbridge does the next best thing' Hilary Mantel
'Brilliant . . . do not miss this novel' Daily Telegraph
'A moving, microcosmic portrait of an era's bitter end' The Times

For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers are played out, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl Bainbridge's haunting masterpiece moves inexorably to its known and terrible end.


First published by Duckworth in 1996

Published by Abacus in 1997

Folio Society edition 2016


Colourful front cover of Beryl Bainbridge's book Every Man For Himself, depicting a Titanic lifeboat


Beryl Bainbridge's Every Man For Himself

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