Graham Swift
Graham Swift’s novels include Waterland, Shuttlecock and Last Orders, which won the Booker Prize in 1996. His most recent work is England and Other Stories (2014). He was one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 1983.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Making an Elephant
Graham Swift
‘The death of a father is, in most cases, an inevitable passage of life.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Fishing, Writing and Ted: An Appreciation
Graham Swift
‘Sometimes it haunts you like a knell, sometimes it's the motto for unimagined privilege.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Looking for Jiří Wolf
Graham Swift
‘The fact remains that when I did ask questions, I got the same response: genuine, not stimulated, ignorance. No one seemed to have heard of him.’