'Mixing startling lyricism and sheer brutality. confirms Mohamed's stature as one of Britain's best young novelists' Stylist, on The Orchard of Lost Souls 'A moving and captivating tale of survival and hope. Mohamed’s third novel is based on the real-life case of Mahmood Mattan, who, in 1952, was executed for the murder of a Jewish shop owner in Cardiff, here called Violet Volacki.

14, 2021 A Somali immigrant in 1950s Wales is wrongly accused of a coldblooded murder. And, under the shadow of the hangman's noose, he begins to realise that the truth may not be enough to save him. THE FORTUNE MEN by Nadifa Mohamed RELEASE DATE: Dec. It is only in the run-up to the trial, as the prospect of freedom dwindles, that it will dawn on Mahmood that he is in a terrifying fight for his life - against conspiracy, prejudice and the inhumanity of the state. But Mahmood is secure in his innocence in a country where, he thinks, justice is served.

It is true that he has been getting into trouble more often since his Welsh wife Laura left him. The Fortune Men is that rare novel that breaks your heart and, in so doing, gives you life. So when a shopkeeper is brutally killed and all eyes fall on him, Mahmood isn't too worried. He is many things, in fact, but he is not a murderer. Fresh from her shortlisting for this year's BookerPrize Nadifa Mohamed shares the true story that inspired her novel, The Fortune Men, an obsession that has. He is a father, chancer, some-time petty thief.

The tragic true story of a man wrongly executed for murder is behind Booker Prize-shortlisted novel The Fortune Men. Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. How a 17-year-old newspaper article inspired Nadifa Mohamed to Booker success The tragic true story of a man wrongly executed for murder is behind Booker Prize-shortlisted novel The Fortune Men.

The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed