Graham Swift

Inglaterra, 30 de marzo de 1924. El Domingo de las Madres. Una jornada en la que las criadas vuelven a sus casas para visitar a sus familias. Pero Jane Fairchild, de veintidós años y que trabaja para los Niven, es huerfana, y pasa ese dia de un modo muy distinto. Se cita con su amante, Paul Sheringham, el unico hijo vivo de los vecinos de los Niven, que han perdido a los otros en la guerra. Jane y Paul llevan años de relacion clandestina, pero ha llegado el momento de dejarlo, porque el va a casarse con una chica de su clase social dentro de dos semanas. La pareja hara el amor por ultima vez, pero despues de despedirse sucedera algo inesperado que cambiara para siempre la vida de ella...En los años que le quedan por delante, Jane acrecentara su interes por la lecturaa traves de los libros de Conrad, trabajara en una libreria de Oxford y con el tiempo se convertira en una novelista de exito, en una forjadora de ficciones. Pero nunca olvidara lo sucedido aquel 30 de marzo de 1924.Graham Swift, en la plenitud de su madurez literaria,ha escrito una novela tan concisa como deslumbrante, impregnada de erotismo, pasion y melancolia. Una bellisima indagacion en los meandros del amor, en la importancia de los recuerdos que evocamos y de las historias que nos contamos, en la busqueda de la propia identidad y en el pod...

Angleterre, 30 mars 1924. C'est le dimanche des mères, jour où les aristocrates donnent congé a leurs domestiques pour qu'ils rendent visite a leur famille. Jane, une jeune femme de chambre orpheline, le passera en compagnie de Paul, son amant de longue date. traversant la campagne inondée de soleil, elle le rejoint pour un dernier rendez-vous car Paul s'apprête a épouser une riche héritière. Mais les choses ne se déroulent pas comme prévu. Ce dimanche changera a jamais le destin de Jane. Graham Swift dépeint avec subtilité une aristocratie déclinante, porteuse des stigmates de la guerre, et l'émergence d'une classe nouvelle en quête de liberté. Un roman d'une intensité rare, troublant de grâce, de mystère et de sensualité.

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, Mothering Sundayhas at its heart both the story of a life and the life that stories can magically contain. Constantly surprising, joyously sensual and deeply moving, it is Graham Swift at his thrilling best.

On a midsummer's night Paula lies awake, Mike, her husband of twenty-five years asleep beside her, her two teenage children, Nick and Kate, sleeping in nearby rooms. The next day, she knows, will redefine all their lives. Recalling the years before and after her children were born, she begins a story which is both a glowing celebration of love possessed and a moving acknowledgement of the fear of loss, of the fragilities, illusions and secrets on which even our most intimate sense of who we are can rest. It is the year 1995. A revelation lies in store. Her children's future lies before them. The house holds a family's history and fate. As a millennium draws to its close, and as day draws nearer, Paula's intensely personal thoughts touch on all our tomorrows. Brilliantly distilling half a century into one suspenseful night, as tender in its tone as it is deep in its soundings, "Tomorrow" is a magical exploration of coupledom, parenthood and selfhood, and a unique meditation on the mystery of happiness.

Eversleigh Manor provides the perfect location for hit new television show, Lady Jane Investigates. But when the film crew descends en masse, no one could have predicted that romance would be brewing before the clapperboard had snapped its last. Least of all Guy Portias, heir to the manor and favourite beau of leading lady, Richenda Fox.

George Webb és un detectiu especialitzat en casos matrimonials. Expolicia, divorciat i amb una filla, cada quinze dies té una cita amb una presidiària, Sarah, una clienta seva que ell havia assistit en un espinós afer matrimonial i que ara compleix una condemna a la presó. George ens explica les vicissituds dels dos últims anys, des del dia que Sarah el va contractar perquè seguís els passos del seu marit, un ginecòleg prestigiós, que està enamorat de Kristina, una refugiada croata. George descobrirà que no es tracta d’una relació clandestina, sinó d’un triangle consentit per Sarah, que en principi havia convidat Kristina a la desesperada a viure a casa seva…

Satire, provocation et humour noir caractérisent les trois nouvelles de ce recueil où Martin Amis, surnommé « l'enfant terrible des lettres anglaises », côtoie Ian McEwan et Graham Swift. Sans concessions, ils révèlent au grand jour les pires travers de leurs contemporains. Tous trois sont considérés comme les écrivains britanniques les plus doués de leur génération et ont été couronnés par de nombreux prix.

These twenty-five new stories mark Graham Swifts return to the short form after seven acclaimed novels and confirm him as a master storyteller. They unite into a richly peopled vision of a country that is both a crucible of history and a maze of contemporary confusions.Meet Dr Shah who has never been to India and Mrs Kaminski, on her way to Poland via A&E; meet Holly and Polly who have come to their own Anglo-Irish understanding and Lily Hobbs, married to a shirt; Charlie and Don who have seen the docks turn into Docklands; Mr Wilkinson the weirdo next door; Daisy Baker who is terrified of Yorkshire; and Johnny Dewhurst, stranded on Exmoor.Graham Swift steers us effortlessly from the Civil War to the present day, from world-shaking events to the secret dramas lived out in rooms, workplaces, homes. With his remarkable sense of place, he charts an intimate human geography. In doing so he moves us profoundly, but with a constant eye for comedy.Binding these stories together is Swifts grasp of the universal in the local and his affectionate but unflinching instinct for the story of us all: an evocation of that mysterious body that is a nation, deepened by the palpable sense of our individual bodies finding or losing their way in the nationless territory of birth, growing up, sex, ageing and death.

A bold new masterpiece from one of the finest British writers of his generation. This is Booker Prize winner Swift at his best. In 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton receives the news that his soldier brother Tom has been killed in Iraq. It means a crucial journey for Jack- to receive his brother's remains, but also into his own most secret, troubling memories. Wish you were here is both a gripping account of things that touch and test our human core and a resonant novel about a changing England.

First published in 1983, Graham Swift's multilayered chronicle set in the Cambridgeshire Fens is widely regarded as one of the finest British novels of the 1980s. Tom Crick is a history teacher, but the history that absorbs him is his own and his family's. The past, with its secrets and oddities, hangs heavy on him, pushing him towards a heartbreaking new crisis in his life. Swift's powerful psychological drama takes in life and death, betrayal and compassion; his setting, the brooding landscape of the marshy Fens, is utterly compelling.

Winner of the 1996 Booker Prize, and now a major new film starring Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren and Michael Caine. 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 Order is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives.