Aidan Higgins won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award for his first novel Langrishe, Go Down. His second novel, Balcony of Europe was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1972. His other books include Images of Africa, Bornholm Night Ferry and Scenes from a Receding Past. The Whole Hog is the third volume of his autobiography.
The Whole Hog is published by Secker and Warburg