Graham Swift
BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR
- Title: Waterland
- Description:
Graham Swift has mapped his Waterland like a new Wessex. The tale he tells is at one a history of England, a Fenland documentary, and a fictional autobiography. 
- Title: Last Orders
- Description:
From the author of Waterland and Ever After, Last Orders is a quiet but dazzling novel about a group of men, friends since the second world war, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack and their favourite pub. When one of them dies, the survivors drive his ashes from London to a seaside town where they will be scattered, compelling them to take stock of who they are today, who they were before and the shifting relationships in between. Both funny and moving, this won the Booker Prize in 1996. 
- Title: Last Orders
- Description:
This novel follows four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, who meet to carry out his last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. From the Publisher Poignant and compassionate exploration of ordinary livesFour men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish, to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre day's outing, Last Orders is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives. "Triumphant...a surpassing testament to Swift's vibrant and powerful gifts" The Times; "His finest book to date; emotionally charged and technically superb...Last Orders is about how we live and how we die and our struggle to make abiding connections between the two" Times Literary Supplement; "This is Graham Swift's finest work to date: beautifully written, gentle, funny, truthful, touching and profound" Salman Rushdie; "Tragic, comic and wonderfully compassionate" Daily Mail
