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Graham Swift

Born

in London, England

May 04, 1949

Genre

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Graham Colin Swift FRSL (born May 4, 1949) is an English author. He was born in London, England and educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York. He was a friend of Ted Hughes.

Some of his works have been made into films, including Last Orders, which starred Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins and Waterland which starred Jeremy Irons. Last Orders was a joint winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and a mildly controversial winner of the Booker Prize in 1996, owing to the superficial similarities in plot to William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Waterland was set in The Fens; it is a novel of landscape, history and family, and is often cited as one of the outstanding post-war ...more

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Average rating: 3.64 · 54,919 ratings · 5,626 reviews · 48 distinct works • Similar authors

	Mothering Sunday 3.69 avg rating — 17,057 ratings — published 2016 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Orders 3.67 avg rating — 14,426 ratings — published 1996 — 106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waterland 3.90 avg rating — 9,544 ratings — published 1983 — 99 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Here We Are 3.45 avg rating — 4,068 ratings — published 2020 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Light of Day 3.35 avg rating — 3,025 ratings — published 2003 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wish You Were Here 3.30 avg rating — 1,360 ratings — published 2011 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tomorrow 2.65 avg rating — 1,275 ratings — published 2007 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shuttlecock 3.35 avg rating — 818 ratings — published 1981 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ever After 3.56 avg rating — 755 ratings — published 1992 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sweet Shop Owner 3.60 avg rating — 674 ratings — published 1980 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.”
― Graham Swift, Tomorrow

tags: inspiration, life, love, nostalgia, time

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“Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.”
― Graham Swift, Waterland

tags: curiosity

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“What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.”
― Graham Swift, Waterland

tags: future, past

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Which would you prefer as August's Book of the Month?

Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift 366 pages Pb £4.31 Kindle £4.09

2 votes, 66.7%

The Island by Victoria Hislop 473 pages Pb £4.31 Kindle £4.99

1 vote, 33.3%

What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller 258 pages Pb £5.59 Kindle £5.99

0 votes, 0.0%

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