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dozen men with lowered heads lifted the hogshead on to the lorry. A plastic flower was laid on the lid. Papers were signed. Brenda, who was easily embarrassed, didn’t want to be seen gawping in the road. She declined to look at the back of the lorry, grey with dust, as the last barrel was shoved into place.

‘She’s going,’ cried Maria, and the engine started and the vehicle slid away from the bay, the plastic tulip lolling in the wind.

Winner of the 1996 Whitbread Novel Award Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF

Beryl Bainbridge

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 are played out the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl Bainbridge’s haunting masterpiece moves inexorably to its known and terrible end.

‘Darkly brilliant … a rare and remarkable novel’ Observer

‘Brilliant … do not miss this novel’

Victoria Glendinning, Daily Telegraph

‘Extraordinary … both psychologically convincing recreation and a wholly new and highly individual work of art … beautifully written’ Independent

‘A moving, microcosmic portrait of an era’s bitter end’

Eric Wagner, The Times

‘Marvellous … exquisite pacing … stunning descriptions’

Independent on Sunday

Abacus

978–0–349–10870–4