Put your hands together for the pompous religious, racist bigots, indifferent conmen, angry victims, people out of their depth, people out of their minds, and patronising do-gooders.
There’s something familiar about the characters we meet, and with good reason. But, above all, lest we forget first principles in the business of novel writing, it is a hurtling yarn. It’s also very funny, very savage, a documentary of mid-19th-century English colonialism, and an understated scream for justice. ENGLISH PASSENGERS was an unlikely pig to be getting a sniff at the trough which is the Booker Prize - unlikely because it is a very good read, nay, a hurtling yarn which will take you half way across the world in a ship that, in some ways, is the star of the story.
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