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Now a major film starring Olivia Colman, Colin Firth, Odessa Young and Josh OConnor (The Crown), scripted by Alice Birch (Normal People) ' Exquisite . . . Mothering Sunday shows love, lust and ordinary decency straining against the bars of an unjust E
The Booker Shortlisted Modern Classic from the author of Last Orders, Mothering Sunday and Here We Are One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history t
On an unseasonably warm spring day in 1924, 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,
***LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE*** From the Booker-winning author of Last Orders and Waterland comes a long-awaitednew novel. ';Mothering Sunday is bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly Swift's small ficti
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
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1996 The classic edition of one of the 20th Century's finest novels 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 at Margate. For reas
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY , reissuedfor the first time in Scribner The classic edition of one of the 20th Century's finest novels by the winner of The Booker Prize One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Cri
A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction 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 comba
"Helligdag" udspiller sig søndag den 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. Jane har en hemmelig affære med den unge søn fra nabo
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
The remarkable new work of fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders , Waterland and Mothering Sunday ' His archly modulated, precise prose, reminiscent at times of his friend Kazuo Ishiguros, has lost none of its power ... immensely