Last Orders at Harrods 2

21 November 2013

Michael Holman's excellent and witty début novel is set in Kuwisha, a collapsing East African nation that occupies a space in the imagination somewhere between Kenya and Tanzania. Last Orders at Harrods, written by FT's former Africa editor, is thronged with characters whose vitality demands attention

Corruption, hope and charity

27 May 2005

Author: James Urquhart

A review of Michael Holman's debut novel, Last Orders at Harrods.

"Last Orders at Harrods" is full of incongruous truths about the nature of corruption and the conditions imposed by foreign donors, as well as jibes about the laziness of foreign correspondents..."