Arrow of God won the first ever Jock Campbell/New Statesman Prize for African writing.
Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan (1912–1994), former chairman of Booker McConnell, Chairman of the New Statesman and Nation and the first chairman of the Milton Keynes Development Corporation
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Jock was an old friend and golfing partner of Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond spy novels, who had recently been diagnosed as terminally ill with less than a year to live.
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Bookers later acquired the copyrights of other well-known authors, including novelists Agatha Christie, Dennis Wheatley, Georgette Heyer and the playwrights Robert Bolt and Harold Pinter.
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The large, central park initially called City Park, was renamed Campbell Park in his honour.