“Then and now, so much depends on the alchemy of luck and desire. “This quiet, compact novel soars with the grace and poignant feeling of Swift’s masterful writing” - American Booksellers Association Swift composes his fiction like a musical composition, with dominant themes, leitmotifs and meaningful refrains.” - Wall Street Journal “Rather in the manner of James Joyce or Virginia Woolf, Mr. Barely noticing the mechanism, you wonder how he does it' - Financial Times

'The book’s power comes precisely from the fact that it performs its magic in front of your eyes, leaving nowhere to hide. 'it’s a magical piece of writing: the work of a novelist on scintillating form' - The Guardian Graham's latest novel, HERE WE ARE was published Simon and Schuster in the UK and Knopf in the US in 2020. It is currently being turned into a major motion picture starring Olivia Coleman and Colin Firth. MOTHERING SUNDAY (2016 - S&S in the UK, Knopf in the US, Random House in Canada), interweaves happiness, passion, and dreadful loss into one idyllic summer’s day in 1924 and was published to great success. His novel, WISH YOU WERE HERE, was published in June 2011. Graham's collection of essays and poems, MAKING AN ELEPHANT, was published in the spring of 2009. His work has appeared in twenty-nine languages. He has also published two collections of short stories, LEARNING TO SWIM (1981) and ENGLAND AND OTHER STORIES (2015) and co-edited (with David Profumo) THE MAGIC WHEEL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF FISHING IN LITERATURE. His other novels are THE SWEET-SHOP OWNER (1980), OUT OF THIS WORLD (1988), EVER AFTER (1992), which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, THE LIGHT OF DAY (2003) and TOMORROW (2007)). Two of his novels have been made into films: WATERLAND, starring Jeremy Irons, and, more recently, LAST ORDERS, starring Michael Caine, Helen Mirren, Bob Hoskins and Tom Courtenay. He is the recipient of many awards for his fiction, including the bi-annual Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for SHUTTLECOCK (1981) the Guardian Fiction Prize for WATERLAND (1983) and in 1996, the Booker Prize for Fiction for LAST ORDERS. Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of nine novels.

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