Troubles

Major Brendan Archer arrives at the crumbling Majestic Hotel in Ireland in 1919 to claim the fiancée he barely remembers meeting, and finds himself caught between a collapsing empire and a country tipping into war. The first novel in J.G. Farrell's Empire Trilogy, awarded the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010 for books published in 1970 that had been ineligible for the prize.