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Last Orders by Graham Swift
$23.00 AUD
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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador 40th
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
Last Orders by Graham Swift
$23.00 AUD
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
Learning to Swim by Graham Swift
$20.00 AUD
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
Learning to Swim and Other Stories by Graham Swift
$18.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'An admirable collection. Each story has its subtle nuances of narrative and language which established a quite distinct character. A most impressive work of fiction' The Times Graham Swift's taut prose style, natural gift for characterization and tight grasp of the details and complexities of real life ...Show more
Making an Elephant by Graham Swift
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'An immensely readable volume. On every page, Swift emerges as a considerable essayist, who upholds the sterling virtue of good writing combined with emotional and intellectual engagement' Evening Standard As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way in ...Show more
Making an Elephant by Graham Swift
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
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
Making an Elephant - Writing from Within by Graham Swift
$34.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies & Journals
In his first ever work of non-fiction, the Booker Prize-winning author of "Last Orders" and "Waterland" delivers a warm and generous account of what has influenced and inspired him over the years. As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the mi ...Show more
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
Pat and Dick: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage by Will Swift
$27.00 AUD
Category: Political
Written by a leading presidential biographer who "narrates with grace and style" ("Kirkus Reviews") this is a probing, insightful, and nuanced study of the partnership between Pat and Dick Nixon throughout their turbulent fifty-three-year marriage. A sweeping portrait of the long-misunderstood marriage ...Show more