Book cover for Shuttlecock by Graham Swift

Shuttlecock

Graham Swift
2012 Released
224 Pages
4-5 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
Hardback Unavailable
VintageISBN 9780307829788

Prentis, the narrator of this nightmarish novel, catalogs "dead crimes" for a branch of the London Police Department and suspects that he is going crazy. His files keep vanishing. His boss subjects him to cryptic taunts. His family despises him. And as Prentis desperately tries to hold on to the scraps of his sanity, he uncovers a conspiracy of blackmail and betrayal that extends from his department and into the buried past of his father, a war hero code-named "Shuttlecock"--and, lately, a resident of a hospital for the insane.

Graham Swift

Graham Swift was born in 1949. He is the author of eleven novels, most recently Here We Are; three collections of short stories, including the highly praised England and Other Stories; and Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Mothering Sunday became a worldwide bestseller and won the Hawthornden Prize for best work of imaginative literature. All three novels were made into films. His books have appeared in over thirty-five languages.  

More by Graham Swift

Waterland
Last Orders
Mothering Sunday
Ever After
The Sweet-Shop Owner
England and Other Stories
Out of This World
Tomorrow
Wish You Were Here
The Light of Day
Making an Elephant
Learning to Swim

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