Graham Swift

• Apr-1985
• / General Fiction
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The men and women in these spare, Kafkaesque stories are engaged in struggles that are no less brutal because they are fought by proxy. In Graham Swift's taut prose, these quiet combative relationships--between a mismatched couple; an aging doctor an...

• Jan-1988
• / General Fiction
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Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family ro...

• Mar-1988
• / General Fiction
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Out of This World interweaves the history of a blighted family with the tragic and ludicrous history of the twentieth century. Its alternating narrators are a father and daughter--each obsessed with the other and irrevocably estranged--surveying thei...

• Mar-1992
• / General Fiction
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Dazzling in its structure and shattering in its emotional force, Graham Swift's Ever After spans two centuries and settings from the adulterous bedrooms of postwar Paris to the contemporary entanglements in the groves of academe. It is the story of B...

• Mar-1992
• / Suspense
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Prentis, the narrator of this nightmarish novel, catalogs "dead crimes" for a branch of the London Police Department and suspects that he is going crazy. His files keep vanishing. His boss subjects him to cryptic taunts. His family despises him. And ...

• Mar-1993
• / General Fiction
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The Sweet-Shop Owner is set during a single June day in the life of an outwardly unremarkable man whose inner world proves to be exceptionally resonant. As he tends to his customers, Willy Chapman, the sweet-shop owner, confronts the specters of his ...

• Feb-1996
• / Literary
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Four men -- friends, most of them, for half a lifetime -- gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment o...

• Apr-2003
• / Suspense
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On the anniversary of a life-shattering event, George Webb, a former policeman turned private detective, revisits the catastrophes of his past and reaffirms the extraordinary direction of his future. Two years before, an assignment to follow a straye...

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction
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On a midsummer's night Paula Hook lies awake; Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep beside her; her teenage twins, Nick and Kate, sleeping in nearby rooms. The next day, she knows, will redefine all of their lives. A revelation lies in store...

• Apr-2012
• / Literary
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On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton -- once a Devon farmer, now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park -- receives the news that his brother, Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in combat in Iraq. For Jack and his wife,...

• May-2015
• / Literary
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of "Last Orders" and "Wish You Were Here," his first new book of short fiction in nearly thirty years: beautifully crafted, piercingly observant stories that unite into a richly peopled vision of a country that is...

• Apr-2016
• / Historical Romance
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A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers’ assignation in the spring of 1924, then unfolds to reveal the whole of a remarkable life.             Twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild has worked as a maid at an E...

• Sep-2020
• / Historical
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In his newest novel, acclaimed author Graham Swift marries the erratic devastations of reality with the elusive probability of magic under the lights of vaudeville, a story of delicate illusions where what one chooses to believe can unearth the most ...