Prentis is an insecure, cowardly, pompous and slightly paranoid senior clerk working in the police archives. Prentis believes that his boss, Chief Quinn, is manipulating certain files and begins to suspect that there is a connection between this manipulation and his father's wartime activity.

Shuttlecock

GRAHAM SWIFT

Penguin Books, Ltd.

SWIFT GRAHAM : SHUTTLECOCK

Penguin??Books

An issue of Granta devoted to all things Soviet, including fiction, non-fiction, photographs, interviews and an exclusive interview with Mikhail Gorbachev by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Granta 30, Winter 1990: New Europe

Literature & Fiction

Ivan Klíma

Joseph Brodsky

Czesław Miłosz

Classics

Granta USA

The Light of Day

Cover worn, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Genre Fiction

Penguin Books, Limited (UK)

Dramas & Plays

The Light Of Day

Contemporary

Hamish Hamilton

A collection of short stories offers an incisive book behind the facades of human relationships to expose the illusion, subterfuge, and enigma of everyday life

Learning to Swim and Other Stories

Picador

Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will feature writing in English from various genres and differing times. Learning to Swim by Graham Swift is edited by Richard Hoyes, Head of Sixth Form at Farnham College.

LEARNING TO SWIM AND OTHER STORIES

This brilliant and compelling novel is at once a lyrical description of the Fens, a fictional autobiography, and an impassioned defence of history. The narrator, an English schoolteacher, and his interior world of memories combine with the exterior world of the bleak Fenland landscape to produce a multiplicity of stories. Swift weaves together tales of empire building, land reclamation, brewers and lock-keepers to construct a chronicle that spans three centuries.  Waterland is simultaneously a family saga, a novel of provincial life, a social history and a story of adolescent love.

Waterland

Vintage Books

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 Quinn, turns his investigation towards him - and his father. Gradually Prentis suspects that his father's breakdown and Quinn's menacing behaviour are connected and the link is to be found in his father's memoirs, "Shuttlecock". 'Excellent, profound' - Alan Hollinghurst, "London Review of Books". 'An astonishing study of forms of guilt, laced with a thread of detection, and puckering now and then into outrageous humour' - "Sunday Times". 'A superbly written claustrophobic account of power that corrupts private and public life and of guilt that becomes obsession' - "Daily Telegraph". 'Swift's central strength as a writer is his integrity. Story and character are treated with a seriousness and respect that while allowing for the oddity of human behaviour - "Shuttlecock" is thoroughly and beautifully odd - always honours them' - "Times Literary Supplement". 'Serious, moving and often very funny indeed' - "Observer".

Pan Books, Ltd.

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Shuttlecock

SWIFT GRAHAM : SHUTTLECOCK

Granta 30, Winter 1990: New Europe

The Light of Day

The Light of Day

The Light Of Day

Learning to Swim and Other Stories

LEARNING TO SWIM AND OTHER STORIES

Waterland

Shuttlecock