Un vent de magie souffle sur la jetée de Brighton au coeur de l'été 1959. C'est dans le théâtre de cette station balnéaire anglaise que se produisent chaque soir Jack Robbins, Ronnie Deane et Evie White. Cet époustouflant trio offre aux vacanciers du bord de mer un spectacle de variétés à nul autre ...
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, le passera en compagnie de Paul, son amant de longue date. traversant la campagne inondée de soleil...
Un couple de jeunes mariés vient de remplir son testament. Un médecin raconte pour la centième fois l'histoire de son père immigré. Un homme fantasme sur l'épouse de son meilleur ami. Une femme n'arrive plus à dormir à côté de son mari depuis les sombres révélations de sa fille. Au fil des drames i...
Un homme, seul dans sa demeure perdue sur l'île de Wright, regarde fixement par la fenêtre. Sa femme vient de le quitter. À ses côtés, une arme. Quels mots ont-ils pu échanger qui aient provoqué une telle scène ? Nés tous deux sur les terres du Devon, Jake et Ellie semblaient pourtant promis l'u...
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. "Wate...
Not a book the reader is likely to forget, Out of this World deserves to be ranked at the forefront of contemporary literature New York Times Book Review 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 s...
The first novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders and Waterland In the sweet shop Willy Chapman was free, absolved from all responsibility, and he ran his sweet shop like his life quietly, steadfastly, devotedly. It was a bargain struck between Chapman and his beautiful, e...
An admirable collection. Each story has its subtle nuances of narrative and language which established a quite distinct character. A most impressive work of fiction The Times Graham Swifts taut prose style, natural gift for characterization and tight grasp of the details and complexities of rea...
Prentis, senior clerk in the dead crimes department of police archives, is becoming more and more confused. Alienated from his wife and children, and obsessed by his father, a wartime hero now the mute inmate of a mental hospital, Prentis feels increasingly unsettled as his enigmatic boss, Mr Qu...
In the years since its first publication, in 1983, Waterland has established itself as one of the classics of twentieth-century British literature: a visionary tale of Englands Fen country; a sinuous meditation on the workings of history; and a family story startling in its detail and universal in i...
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