The Fortune Men tells the story of Mahmood, who finds himself wrongfully charged for murder in 1950s Cardiff.
The only novel on the 2021 Booker Prize shortlist by a British author, it’s a sobering examination of prejudice, justice and the dispensability of truth.
Mahmood Mattan is a chancer and petty criminal living in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay in 1952. When a shopkeeper is brutally killed and all eyes fall on him, he is secure in his innocence.