SWIFT GRAHAM

(P/B) TOMORROW
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 define all their lives. As morning approaches, Paula recalls the years before and after her children were born. Her story is both a celebration of love possessed and a moving acknowledgement of the fear of loss, the fragilities, illusions and secrets on which even our most intimate sense of who we are can rest. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) MAKING AN ELEPHANT
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. In Making an Elephant, his first ever work of non-fiction, the voice is his own. Swift brings together a richly varied selection of essays, portraits, poetry, and reflections on his life in writing, full of insights into his passions and motivations, and wise about the friends, family, and other writers who have mattered to him over the years. Kazuo Ishiguro advises on how to cho...
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(P/B) THE SWEET SHOP OWNER
The first novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders and Waterland. "This beautifully balanced novel describes the arrangements, accommodations, pacts and treaties of our ordinary lives" -- The Times...
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(P/B) LAST ORDERS

(P/B) WATERLAND

(P/B) EVER AFTER
An academic sits alone in his college room thinking about the people he has lost. Powerful memories crowd in on him ? childhood days in Paris; his exuberant, glamorous mother; his mysterious father; and the brash young American who becomes his step-father. Mingled with this emerges a tender portrait of his relationship with his actress wife. Ever After is a poignant elegy to lost faith and lost hope. It is also a powerful affirmation of love. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) SHUTTLECOCK

TOMORROW (H/B)

(P/B) LEARNING TO SWIM

(P/B) OUT OF THIS WORLD
In 1972, Robert Beech, First World War survivor and present-day armaments maker, is killed by a car bomb. The event breaks the career of his son Harry, a news photographer, and comes close to destroying his granddaughter Sophie. Ten years later, the Falklands War has begun and both Harry, now working as an aerial photographer, and Sophie, visiting an analyst in New York, are haunted by a past that has scarred and divided them. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) WISH YOU WERE HERE
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife Ellie this will have a potentially catastrophic impact. For Jack in particular it means a crucial journey-to receive his brother's remains, but also into his own most secret, troubling memories and into the land of his and Ellie's past. Wish You Were Here is both a gripping account of things that t...
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