New York, NY: Knopf (2015)

First Edition. Signed.

Fine in dust jacket.

The Booker Prize-winning author presents his first new book of short stories in nearly 30 years, in which piercing observations in human behavior are made and motifs of love, friendship, secrets, faith and memory are interwoven throughout.

Meet Dr. Shah who has never been to India, and Mrs. Kaminski, on her way to Poland; meet Holly and Polly, who have come to their own Anglo-Irish understanding, and Charlie and Don, who have seen the docks turn into Docklands; Daisy Baker, who is terrified of Yorkshire; and Johnny Dewhurst, stranded on Exmoor. Graham Swift steers us effortlessly from the seventeenth century to the present day, from world-shaking events to the secret dramas lived out in rooms, workplaces, homes. With these open-eyed, eloquent and often comic stories, Swift charts a human geography that moves us profoundly.