Past Man Booker Prize Winners & Finalists (1974)

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1974
Book Cover	Book Details	Synopsis	TBS Rank
1974 Co-Winner	The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer Publisher: Cape ISBN: 0140047166	Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm. Nadine Gordimer's fascinating portrait of a man both reckless and calculating, a “conservationist” left only with the possibility of self-preservation, is also a subtle and detailed study of the forces and relationships that seethe in South Africa today.	1
1974 Co-Winner	Holiday by Stanley Middleton Publisher: Hutchinson ISBN: 0907123430	Holiday is the story of a man who leaves his wife and spends a week in a seaside boarding-house looking back over all that went wrong with his marriage.
	Ending Up by Kingsley Amis Publisher: Cape ISBN: 0151287961	At Tuppenny-Hapenny Cottage a clutch of oldsters, brought together more by ill fortune than blood or love, struggles with problems that range from penury to prostate. That's the good news. The rest is Amis as usual, providing fun for himself and his readers at the expense of his characters.	2
	The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge Publisher: Duckworth ISBN: 0786701463	Freda and Brenda go on an outing with their fellow-workers at a wine-bottling factory. Unexpected horror is the result. This novel was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1974 and won the Guardian Fiction Award.
	In Their Wisdom by C.P. Snow Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1842324349	Old Massie is dead. Irascible and eccentric to the end, he has left his considerable fortune to the ne'er-do-well son of his rectory-companion. The will is contested by Massie's daughter, and a dramatic struggle ensues, the repercussions of which are felt even in the House of Lords. Remarkable for both its wealth of sharply drawn characters and its insights into heritage and inheritance in contemporary England , In Their Wisdom rivals Dickens's Bleak House in its compelling creation of an epic legal struggle
Judges	Ion Trewin, A.S. Byatt, Elizabeth Jane Howard