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  The Light of Day

  by Graham Swift

  The Light of Day combines a powerful love story and a narrative of intense suspense into a brilliant and tender novel about what drives people to extremes of emotion. As in his Booker-winning novel Last Orders , Swift transforms ordinary lives through extraordinary storytelling. This new novel from Graham Swift -- his first since the Booker Prize-winning Last Orders -- is the work of a master storyteller. ... (more)
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  Tomorrow

  by Graham Swift

  In his first novel since The Light of Day , the Booker Prize–winning author gives us a luminous tale about the closest of human bonds. 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. A revelation lies in store. Her children’s future lies... (more)
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  Waterland (Vintage International)

  by Graham Swift

  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 modern classic.
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  Last Orders

  by Graham Swift

  Swift's first novel since his highly acclaimed Ever After is a subtle yet piercing story about the ways in which friendship and love are shaped by the past and by fate. At its center is a group of men, friends since the Second World War, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack, and their favorite pub. When one of the group dies, the survivors are compelled to take stock.
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  Ever After (Vintage International)

  by Graham Swift

  The dazzling new novel by the author of Waterland approaches the riddle of life from the agonized perspective of Bill Unwin, a middle-aged orphan, premature widower, and failed suicide suddenly obsessed by the diaries of his Victorian ancestor, a man whose fall from happiness eerily parallels his own. "He writes like a Henry James reborn after the sexual revolution."--New York Times Book Review.
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  Shuttlecock (Vintage International)

  by Graham Swift

  This Kafka-esque masterpiece tells the story of Prentis, a man who catalogs "dead crimes" for the London Police Department and becomes involved with one case that possesses a menacing afterlife.
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  Sweet Shop Owner

  by Graham Swift

  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 daughter, the history through which he has passed, and the great, unrequited passion that has tormented him for forty... (more)