Graham Swift
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"A novel set in the Devon countryside in England, in which a man, the son of a dairy farmer, has to cope with the recent death of his brother, a soldier in Iraq; repair his relationship with his wife; and cope with the complicated legacy of his family's past"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
Henry Maynard has his hands full. Working for the British Military Intelligence (MI5) at the height of World War II, his task is twofold.Firstly, he has to find the informant reporting on the RAF's top secret radar equipment to the Germans. Secondly, he has to uncover the identity of the spy observing the Meteor jet fighter's development. His pursuit becomes a deadly game of cat and mouse. Anyone and everyone standing in the path of these precarious...
7) Here we are
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...