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From the Booker-winning author of Last Orders and Waterland comes a long-awaited new novel - 'Mothering Sunday is bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly...Swift's small fiction feels like a masterpiece' Guardian 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 Sunday has 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. 'Mothering Sunday is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives - the parallel stories - we can never know ...It may just be Swift's best novel yet' Observer

Beautifully written, enthralling and unforgettable, The Light of Day is a bold, unconventional tale of love, murder and second chances. Over the course of a single day, we meet George and Sarah who are bound together and cruelly separated by a momentous act that has cut deeply into both their lives. Teasing out the magical in the ordinary, truth from deceit, The Light of Day is a timeless love story about how we can find the beautiful and enchanting in the most unlikely places.

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.

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…

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 es un detective privado que se especializa en «asuntos matrimoniales». Era policía, con una carrera brillante, hasta que fue expulsado del cuerpo por corrupción. Tiene cerca de cincuenta

Bill Unwind, un catedrático de mediana edad, superviviente de un intento de suicidio, y que fuera el esposo de una actriz famosa y el hijo de una célebre belleza de su época, tiene dos historias que contar: la primera, la propia, en la que intenta desentrañar los enigmas de su vida y aceptar su destino, comienza en el excitante París de la posguerra y termina en las actuales intrigas de la vida académica. En medio, una relación amorosa que duró hasta la muerte y el suicidio de su padre, que le marco para siempre: ¿se mató por que se sentía culpable por su compromiso con el bombardeo de Hiroshima, por la desesperación que le causo descubrir el adulterio de su mujer, o por otra razón aún más oscura y terrible? Bill Unwind, rememorando su propia historia en busca de la verdad, reconstruye también una vida paralela, que será contrapunto y espejo de la suya: la de Matthew Pearce, un antepasado victoriano que, tras encontrar azarosamente un fósil de ictiosaurio, descubrió también a Darwin y se lanzó a una desesperada búsqueda de la verdad. Y en ella perdió su religión, su esposa y la vida felíz que había llevado hasta entonces.

Sarah is in prison. She is visited by George, the private eye she employed to observe the final stage of her husband's affair. The visits - and the days between - lead George back into Sarah's past, into events he can picture only too well, while bringing him ever closer to a time he can't quite imagine - when she will once again step out into the clear light of day... Intimate and intricate in its evocation of daily existence, The Light of Day still achieves an extraordinary intensity and unbearable suspense. Tender and humorous in its depiction of life's surface, it explores the extremities of what lies within us and how it's never too late to discover what these are.

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 book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy. "Waterland, like the Hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving.... Swift tells his tale with wonderful contemporary verve and verbal felicity.... A fine and original work."--Los Angeles Times

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.