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Angleterre, 30 mars 1924. C’est le dimanche des mères, jour où les aristocrates donnent congé à leurs domestiques pour qu’ils rendent visite à leur famille. Jane, une jeune femme de chambre orpheline

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

It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing audiences each night. Meanwhile, Jack - Jack Robinson, as in 'before you can say' - is everyone's favourite compere, a born entertainer, holding the whole show together. As the summer progresses, the off-stage drama between the three begins to overshadow their theatrical success, and events unfold which will have lasting consequences for all their futures. Rich, comic, alive and subtly devastating, Here We Are is a masterly piece of literary magicianship which pulls back the curtain on the human condition.

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.

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

On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton - former Devon farmer, now proprietor of a seaside caravan park - receives the news that his brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife Ellie this will have a potentially catastrophic impact and compel Jack to make a crucial journey: to receive his brother's remains, but also to return to the land of his past and confront his most secret, troubling memories. Praise for Mothering Sunday: 'Bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly... Swift's small fiction feels like a masterpiece' Guardian `Alive with sensuousness and sensuality ... wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievement' Sunday Times `From start to finish Swift's is a novel of stylish brilliance and quiet narrative verve. The archly modulated, precise prose (a hybrid of Henry Green and Kazuo Ishiguro) is a glory to read

Ultimos tragos que ha recibido el prestigioso premio Booker, ha confirmado a Graham Swift como uno de los grandes novelistas contemporáneos. Jack Doods era un carnicero de Bermondsey. Iba a cerrar su tienda, comprarse una casita junto al mar y empezar una nueva vida con su mujer cuando tuvo que rendirse ante una cosilla de nada, algo que comenzo como un simple mal trago, y acabo siendo la copa final. Pero antes de morir, y en una ultima carta donde las letras eran ya tenues como telas de araña, pidio que echaran sus cenizas al mar desde el muelle de Margate. Y ahora espera dentro de una urna, en el pub donde se reunia con sus amigos, el viaje final. Ira en un suntuoso Mercedes azul, que Vince, su hijo adoptivo y vendedor de coches de segunda mano, ha tomado prestado para la ocasion, y le acompañaran, ademas de Vince, sus amigos de siempre: Ray, un vendedor de seguros y genio de las apuestas; Lenny, que en sus buenos tiempos fue boxeador y ahora tiene un puesto de frutas y verduras, y Vic, empresario de pompas funebres... Y la peregrinacion con las cenizas de Jack los llevara a los lugares y a las menorias del pasado, y de la historia de cada uno de ellos, que se entreteje inevitablemente con las de los demas, se ira componiendo esta gran historia de las pequeñas gentes de este siglo, llena de tragedias intimas, de goce y de desdicha, de amores y rencores, y de la cotidiana felicidad -e infelicidad- de vivir.

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 detective privado. Antes era policia, con una carrera brillante, hasta que fue expulsado del cuerpo por corrupción. Tiene cerca de cincuenta años, una secretaria con un corazón de oro, una ex esposa que lo abandono, una hija veinteañera y un ritual a cumplir: sus visitas a Sarah, que fue su clienta, tambien en un "asunto matrimonial", y que ahora esta en la carcel. Con un estilo preciso, laconico, pero tambien impregnado de un duro lirismo, Geroge nos cuenta, y se cuenta, estos ultimos dos años que han cambiado su vida para siempre.

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.

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 conce