 In 1996 Beryl Bainbridge published "Every Man for Himself", which won the Whitbread Award for Best Novel that year as well as being nominated for the Booker Prize and the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize.The title comes from some of the reputed last words of "Titanic"s Captain Smith and features a fictional nephew of J. P. Morgan, the ultimate owner of the ship, who seeks to befriend and seduce the rich and famous aboard the ship.He accompanies Thomas Andrews as the ship sinks and makes his escape aboard a capsized lifeboat (like Sherlock Holmes).