Beautifully written, gentle, funny, truthful, touching and profound Salman Rushdie Last Orders is a much-loved classic of English literature. It won both the 1996 Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2001, it was adapted into an award-winning film starring Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins. Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carr Beautifully written, gentle, funny, truthful, touching and profound Salman Rushdie Last Orders is a much-loved classic of English literature. It won both the 1996 Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2001, it was adapted into an award-winning film starring Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins. 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, Jacks widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre days outing, Last Orders is Graham Swifts most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives.