Graham Swift - Novels

Novelist and short-story writer, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge and York universities, and published his first novel, The Sweet Shop Owner, in 1980. Later books include The Shuttlecock (1981), Ever After (1992), Last Orders (1996, Booker), and The Light of Day (2003). He has also written two collections of stories (1982, 1985).

Graham Colin Swift (born May 4, 1949) is a well-known British author. The novel was a controversial winner of the Booker Prize, due to the debt the plot owed to William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.

Novels

Sweet-Shop Owner (1980) Shuttlecock (1982) Waterland (1983) Out of this World (1988) Ever After (1992) Last Orders (1996) -- winner of the 1996 Booker Prize The Light of Day (2003)

Although Swift won the Booker prize for Last Orders in 1996, many consider Waterland to be his premier novel.