Graham Swift

The remarkable new work of fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders, Wasteland, Here We Are and Mothering Sunday In the aftermath of the Second World War Private Joseph Caan, a young Jewish soldier stationed in Germany, seeks the truth about lost family members; in the...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY. 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 teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his...

From the Booker-winning author of Last Orders and Waterland comes a long-awaited new novel....

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 reasons best known to herself, Jack’s widow, Amy, declines to join them.....

George Webb is a divorced ex-policeman turned private investigator, a man whose prospects seemed ruined not so long ago...

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....

On a cold but dazzling November morning George Webb, a former policeman turned private detective, prepares to visit Sarah, a prisoner and the woman he loves....

England, 1924: Jane und Paul sind seit Jahren ein Liebespaar, aber im Verborgenen. Denn Paul kommt aus gutem Hause und Jane ist das Dienstmädchen...

In 1972, Robert Beech, First World War veteran and prominent figure in the arms industry, is killed by a car bomb....

When four men carry out another's final wishes, they are forced to take stock of who they are...

These 25 new stories mark Graham Swift's return to the short form after seven acclaimed novels and confirm him as a master storyteller....

On a June night, Paula, a successful art dealer, lies awake. Mike, her husband of 25 years, is asleep beside her. In nearby rooms, their twin teenage children, Nick and Kate, sleep, too. The next day, Paula knows, will define all their lives....

For 40 years, Willy Chapman has struck a strange but steadfast bargain between the two poles of his life: his beautiful but emotionally damaged wife and the sweet shop he runs on a South London high street....

From the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders and of the Sunday Times best-seller Mothering Sunday comes a collection of new stories....

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....

In Making an Elephant, Graham Swift brings together a richly varied selection of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing....

Bill 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....

On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton—former Devon farmer, now proprietor of a seaside caravan park—receives the news that his brother, Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq....

Prentis, employed in the police archives, is becoming confused. His obsession with the plight of his father, a wartime hero, now the mute inmate of a mental hospital, is alienating him from his wife and children, while at work, he feels under scrutiny from his intimidating boss, Quinn....