Graham Swift: 21 books

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 their losses and grievances on opposite sides of the...

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 as Prentis desperately tries to hold on...

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. Recalling the years before and after her children were born, Paula...

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 beautiful and distant wife and his clever, angry...

È il Mothering Sunday, la Festa della Mamma, del 1924 in Inghilterra. La guerra è alle spalle e un’altra è all’orizzonte. Ma è una bella domenica di fine marzo, perfetta per rimuovere i lutti e celebrare in allegria la speciale ricorrenza del giorno. Il rituale della festa prevede visite di...

Step through the door, and get a Glimpse into a new world. This thrilling anthology includes twenty-two stories, written by some of today’s most talented authors.Be tempted and fascinated with peeks into worlds of Ghosts, Vampires, and Fantasy, to Crime and Science Fiction. Many of these short...

The discovery of a wrecked Lancaster bomber on a deserted beach in Norfolk leads two investigators into the heart of a sinister Nazi plot, secretly planned during the dark years of the Second World War. Despite the war being long over, they learn that German fanatics still loyal to the old regime...