‘The Booker Prize winner traces a tender and moving web of connections across decades’,  Financial Times
‘A brilliant, illuminating collection of short fiction, perhaps the author’s best’,  Kirkus
‘These stories, depth charges of love, anguish, resentment, each in their way relating to the effects of WW2, are so good. Swift at his best – and he’s on top form here – has the humanity and wry humour of William Trevor’  Patrick Gale

In the aftermath of the Second World War Private Joseph Caan, a young Jewish soldier stationed in Germany, seeks the truth about lost family members; in the 1960s a father focuses on his daughter’s wedding even as the Cuban Missile Crisis brings the world to the brink of disaster; in 2001, while planes fly into the Twin Towers, a maid working for US Embassy staff in London wonders if her birth on the day of the Kennedy assassination shaped her life; and at the height of a pandemic lockdown, Dr. Cole, a retired specialist in respiratory disease, returns to work and recalls a formative childhood encounter with illness and much more. These are just a few of the challenged characters we meet in Graham Swift’s Twelve Post-war Tales.
 
Tender, humane, funny and moving, Swift’s latest work of fiction displays his quietly commanding ability to set the personal and the ordinary against the harsh sweep of history. It is an outstanding achievement, confirming his status as one of the great, most subtle voices of our age.
  Praise for Swift’s most recent novel,  Here We Are    
‘A magical piece of writing: the work of a novelist on scintillating form.’  Guardian  
 
‘Here We Are smuggles within the pages of a seemingly commonplace tale depths of emotion and narrative complexity that take the breath away.’  Observer  
 
‘The book’s power comes precisely from the fact that it performs its magic in front of your eyes, leaving nowhere to hide . . . you wonder how he does it.’  Financial Times  
 
‘With a wizardry of his own, Swift conjures up an about-to-disappear little world and turns it into something of wider resonance.’  Sunday Times  
 
‘Swift has no equal in evoking the atmosphere of an era while probing human psychology with irony and tenderness.’  L’Express, France  
 
‘Swift doesn’t write, he whispers’,  Corriere della Sera, Italy
 
 “In a dozen pages Swift can embrace a whole life”,  Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany

Survival is only the beginning.

Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. They’re exhausted, traumatized, desperate now, and this is a forsaken place, but as a refuge it’s the most promising they’ve seen. The child peers at the field of desolation. The man thinks to himself, this could work.

Problem is, they’re not alone . . .

So begins a searing, epic journey through a life where the challenge is not only to survive; it’s keeping your humanity if you do.

Juice is a stunning novel for fans of Station Eleven and The Road, from twice Booker-shortlisted author Tim Winton.

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‘Very funny? I inhaled it’ JOE LYCETT

?’Taut, pacy, seamless? a huge pleasure to read’ MARIAN KEYES

‘Mackie has assembled a gloriously repugnant cast – everyone here, apart from her rather sweet TikTok sleuth, is dreadful, but in a pleasurably awful way? A dark, funny story of a very dysfunctional family‘ OBSERVER

‘Wonderfully wicked‘ RED MAGAZINE

‘Ferociously entertaining‘ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

‘Gripping, sharp and funny, this window on the mega-wealthy is perfect for fans of Succession‘ WOMAN & HOME

‘Another caustic satire from the million-copy bestseller of How to Kill Your Family‘ i NEWS

‘Still not over Succession? A dysfunctional family with four inheritance-obsessed children gives the Roy clan a run for its money, with a murderous twist’ SUNDAY TIMES STYLE

‘I was immensely grateful that despite the gruesome way my husband died, he’d done it with his clothes on.’

Anthony Wistern is wealthy beyond imagination. Fragrant wife, gaggle of photogenic children, French chateau, Cotswold manor, plethora of mistresses, penchant for cutting moral corners, tick tick tick tick tick tick.

Unfortunately for him, he’s also dead. Suddenly poised to inherit his fortune, each member of the family falls under suspicion.

And that’s when everything comes crashing down?

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After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle.

Alongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks – among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra, and her watchful maid, Ritsa. Enslaved as concubine – war-wife – to King Agamemnon, Cassandra is plagued by visions of his death – and her own – while Ritsa is forced to bear witness to both Cassandra’s frenzies and the horrors to come.

Meanwhile, awaiting the fleet’s return is Queen Clytemnestra, vengeful wife of Agamemnon. Heart-shattered by her husband’s choice to sacrifice their eldest daughter to the gods in exchange for a fair wind to Troy, she has spent this long decade plotting retribution, in a palace haunted by child-ghosts.

As one wife journeys toward the other, united by the vision of Agamemnon’s death, one thing is certain: this long-awaited homecoming will change everyone’s fates forever.

‘The queen of literary historical fiction, Barker is an unflinching guide for a trip across ancient Greece’ National Geographic

‘You go to her for plain truths, a driving storyline and a clear eye, steadily facing the history of our world’ Guardian