Books by Graham Swift

An intensely moving and beautifully written new novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders and Waterland

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday

An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday

An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday

A collection of new stories from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Ordersand Waterland

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.

Helligdag udspiller sig 30. marts 1924. Den 22-årige forældreløse stuepige Jane Fairchild arbejder i huset hos den velhavende familie Niven og venter på, at livet skal tage fart. Hun har en hemmelig affære med den unge søn fra naboejendommen, Paul Sheringham, og de tilbringer morgenen sammen denne helligdag, hvor alle andre ellers er på solskins-udflugt eller har fri til at besøge deres egen familie. Paul er den eneste overlevende af de to huses i alt fem sønner – resten mistede livet i 1. Verdenskrig – og han står over for et giftemål med arvingen til et stort gods i nærheden. I løbet af den usædvanligt varme marts-søndag sker der noget, der får betydning for resten af Jane Fairchilds liv.