{"product_id":"9781471137419","title":"England and Other Stories","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Swift, Graham\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 4 June 2015 by Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Ltd (Scribner UK).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 288 pages\u003cbr\u003e190 x 103 x 22 | 264g\u003cp\u003eA collection of new stories from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and of the Sunday Times bestseller Mothering Sunday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Meet Dr Shah, who has never been to India, and Mrs Kaminski, on her way to Poland via A\u0026amp;E. Meet Holly and Polly, who have come to their own Anglo-Irish understanding; Charlie and Don, who have seen the docks turn into Docklands; Daisy Baker, terrified of Yorkshire; and Johnny Dewhurst, stranded on Exmoor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Binding these stories together is Graham Swift's 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, ageing, sex and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Mothering Sunday: 'Bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly... Swift's small fiction feels like a masterpiece' Guardian  'Alive with sensuousness and sensuality ... wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievement' Sunday Times '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 'Mothering Sunday is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives - the parallel stories - we can never know ... It may just be Swift's best novel yet' Observer  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Swift, Graham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42465689501880,"sku":"9781471137419","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781471137419.jpg?v=1734703900","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781471137419","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}