- Title:
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England and Other Stories
- Written by:
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Graham Swift
- Read by:
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Stephen Thorne; Kris Dyer; Ric Jerrom; Jilly Bond; Philip Frank
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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7
- Duration:
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8 hours 8 minutes
- Published:
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September 01 2020
- Available Date:
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September 01 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655692577
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Short Stories & Anthologies
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Price
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#1 bestselling author
Award winning author
A collection of new stories from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and of the Sunday Times bestseller Mothering Sunday.
Meet Dr Shah, who has never been to India, and Mrs Kaminski, on her way to Poland via A&E; meet Holly and Polly who have come to their own Anglo-Irish understanding and Lily Hobbs, married to a shirt; Charlie and Don, who have seen the docks turn into Docklands; Mr Wilkinson, the weirdo next door; Daisy Baker, who is terrified of Yorkshire; and Johnny Dewhurst, stranded on Exmoor.
Graham Swift steers us effortlessly from the Civil War to the present day, from world-shaking events to the secret dramas lived out in rooms, workplaces, homes. With his remarkable sense of place, he charts an intimate human geography. In doing so he moves us profoundly, but with a constant eye for comedy.
Binding these stories together is Swift's grasp of the universal in the local and his affectionate but unflinching instinct for the story of us all: an evocation of that mysterious body that is a nation, deepened by the palpable sense of our individual bodies finding or losing their way in the nationless territory of birth, growing up, sex, ageing and death.
‘From start to finish Swift’s is a novel of stylish brilliance and quiet narrative verve. The archly modulated, precise prose (a hybrid of Henry Green and Kazuo Ishiguro) is a glory to read. Now 66, Swift is a writer at the very top of his game.’
Evening Standard
‘Alive with sensuousness and sensuality … wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievement.'
Sunday Times
'Bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly … Swift’s small fiction feels like a masterpiece’
Guardian