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England and Other Stories by Graham Swift
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Category: Fiction
A collection of new stories from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Ordersand Waterland; 'a powerful statement about English ways of life and death' Independent on Sunday Meet Dr Shah, who has never been to India, and Mrs Kaminski, on her way to Poland via AE. Meet Holly and Polly, who have come to ...Show more
Ever After by Graham Swift
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Category: Fiction
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in ScribnerBill Unwin, an academic of dubious status, has never recovered from the death of his famous actress wife and is now convalescing from a recent brush with his own mortality. He has two tales to tell. O ...Show more
Here We Are by Graham Swift
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Category: Fiction
The extraordinary new novel from the winner of the Booker Prize in 1996 for Last Orders It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing audiences ea ...Show more
Here We Are by Graham Swift
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Category: Fiction
The extraordinary new novel from the winner of the Booker Prize It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing audiences each night. Meanwhile, Jack ...Show more
Last Orders by Graham Swift
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Category: Fiction
Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre day's outing, "Last Orders" is ...Show more
Last Orders by Graham Swift
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Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1996Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea at Margate. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them . . . On the surface a simple tale of an increasi ...Show more
Last Orders by Graham Swift
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador 40th | Reading Level: 16
Set in Southeast England, friendship and love among a group of men whose lives have been intertwined since World War II. When one dies, the survivors are brought together and are forced to take stock of the paths their lives have taken, by choice and by accident, since the war. Winner of the 1996 Booker ...Show more
Learning to Swim by Graham Swift
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Category: Fiction
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner Graham Swift's first collection of short stories confirms his power to bring an edge of the extraordinary, the dangerous or the subversive into otherwise familiar, safe, even comforting settings. On ...Show more
Making an Elephant by Graham Swift
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Category: Culture & Ideas
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, and reissued for the first time in Scribner, a brilliant collection of essays, as well as brand new material, that will delight and intrigue readers.In Making an Elephant, Graham Swift brings together a richly varied selection of essays, p ...Show more
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold? Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades, Mothe ...Show more
Mothering Sunday - A Romance by Graham Swift
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold? Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades, Mothe ...Show more
Out of This World by Graham Swift
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Category: Fiction
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in ScribnerIn 1972, Robert Beech, First World War veteran and prominent figure in the arms industry, is killed by a car bomb. The event cuts short the career of his son Harry, a news photographer, and comes clos ...Show more