Graham Swift

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters. In Making an Elephant, his first ever work of non-fiction, the voice is his own.

An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters. In Making an Elephant, his first ever work of non-fiction, the voice is his own.

An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday

An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday

Helligdag udspiller sig 30. marts 1924. Den 22-årige forældreløse stuepige Jane Fairchild arbejder i huset hos den velhavende familie Niven og venter på, at livet skal tage fart. Hun har en hemmelig affære med den unge søn fra naboejendommen, Paul Sheringham, og de tilbringer morgenen sammen denne helligdag, hvor alle andre ellers er på solskins-udflugt eller har fri til at besøge deres egen familie. Paul er den eneste overlevende af de to huses i alt fem sønner – resten mistede livet i 1. Verdenskrig – og han står over for et giftemål med arvingen til et stort gods i nærheden. I løbet af den usædvanligt varme marts-søndag sker der noget, der får betydning for resten af Jane Fairchilds liv.

30 mars 1924. Det är ”mödrarnas söndag”, dagen på året då tjänstefolket får ledigt för att åka hem. En som inte åker hem är den föräldralösa Jane Fairchild, som i ställer möter sin älskare i granngodset som ekar tomt efter att bröderna dog i första världskriget. Det som händer sedan ändrar deras liv för alltid – med ekon fram till vår tid. Mödrarnas söndag rör sig mästerligt mellan det tragiska och livsbejakande. Swift har skrivit en stor liten roman om livsval och öde, en roman för alla dem som älskade ATONEMENT, DOWNTON ABBEY och STONER.‘Mothering Sunday is bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly… Swift’s small fiction feels like a masterpiece’ (Guardian)‘Alive with sensuousness and sensuality…wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievement’ (Sunday Times)‘Mothering Sunday is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives – the parallel stories – we can never know: “All the scenes. All the scenes that never occur, but wait in the wings of possibility.” It may just be Swift’s best novel yet’ (Observer)

The Sunday Times bestseller - an intensely moving and beautifully written new novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders and Waterland

From the Booker Prize-winning author, an 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. - Don't miss the major motion picture starring Odessa Young, Josh O'Connor, Ṣọpẹ́ D r s , Colin Firth, and more"Exquisite ... shows love, lust, and ordinary decency struggling against the bars of an unjust English caste system." --Kazuo Ishiguro, The GuardianOn an unseasonably warm spring day in the 1920s, twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, a maid at an English country house, meets with her secret lover, the young heir of a neighboring estate. He is about to be married to a woman more befitting his social status, and the time has come to end the affair--but events unfold in ways Jane could never have predicted. As the narrative moves back and forth across the twentieth century, what we know and understand about Jane--about the way she loves, thinks, feels, sees, and remembers--expands with every page. In Mothering Sunday, Swift has crafted an emotionally soaring and profoundly moving work of fiction.

In these beautifully crafted stories, Graham Swift--author of the Booker Prize-winning Last Orders--presents a vision of a country, England, that is both a crucible of history and a maze of contemporary confusions. Moving from the seventeenth century to the present day, from world-shaking events to domestic dramas and frequently mixing tragedy with comedy, England and Other Stories is bound together by an underlying instinct for the story of us all: an evocation of that mysterious thing, a nation, enriched by a clear-eyed compassion for how human individuals find or lose their way in the nationless territory of birth, growing up, sex, ageing and death.

A collection of new stories from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Ordersand Waterland

A collection of new stories from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Ordersand Waterland

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 romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy.