{"product_id":"9781471137419","title":"England and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Swift, Graham \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 04\/06\/2015,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 288 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781471137419,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\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":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41376305283116,"sku":"9781471137419","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781471137419_bc12c3cb-2955-4b10-b72b-f0ecbf2d5d4d.jpg?v=1759680023","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781471137419","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}