Graham Swift
2) Last orders
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English
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In England three working-class buddies, united by pub-drinking and World War II experiences, drive the ashes of the fourth to the sea. In the process emerge the lives of four families and the reason no wife came. By the author of Ever after.
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English
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On the anniversary of a life-shattering event, George Webb, a former policeman turned private detective, revisits the catastrophes of his past and reaffirms the extraordinary direction of his future. Two years before, an assignment to follow a strayed husband and his mistress appeared simple enough, but this routine job left George a transformed man.
Suspenseful, moving, and hailed by critics as a detective story unlike any other, The Light...
Suspenseful, moving, and hailed by critics as a detective story unlike any other, The Light...
4) Tomorrow
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English
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On a midsummer's night, Paula Hook lies awake, her family sleeping nearby. Contemplating a secret she will reveal to her children the next day, she begins a story that is both a celebration of love and a moving acknowledgment of the fragilities, illusions, and secrets on which even our most intimate sense of self can rest.
5) Waterland
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English
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A history teacher besieged by a personal crisis and the "phasing out" of his teaching job abandons his lessons to relate tales of Fenland and his family.
6) Here we are
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"It's the summer of 1959, and something magical can be witnessed at the end of the pier in beach town Brighton, England. Jack Robbins, Ronnie Deane, and Evie White are performing in a seaside variety show, starring as Jack Robinson the compere comedian, and The Great Pablo and Eve: a magic act. By the end of the summer, Evie's glinting engagement ring will be flung to the bottom of the ocean and one of the trifecta will vanish forever. All three friends...
7) Ever after
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English
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After a brush with death, Bill Unwin discovers notebooks from a Victorian ancestor that help him piece together his own life with their meditations on the human condition.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the Booker Award winner: a luminous, profoundly moving work of fiction that begins with an afternoon tryst in 1924 between a servant girl and the young man of the neighboring house, but then opens to reveal the whole life of a remarkable woman. Twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, orphaned at birth, has worked as a maid at one English country estate since she was sixteen. And for almost all of those years she has been the secret lover to Paul...
14) Mothering Sunday
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Follows the jouney of self-discovery of Jane Fairchild, from 1924, when she works as a maid and has an affair with a wealthy neighbor who is going to marry a woman in his social circle, to the end of the century, when she is an old woman and successful writer."--
15) Last orders
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of four men, covering nearly a half-century of these South London buddies lives, from thier adopted pub to Margate Pier. Through a series of flashbacks, they take you on a journey of a lifetime. Along with them are the ashes of Jack, their larger-than-life friend, whose deathbed request sends them on their way.
16) Mothering Sunday
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman.