Author: Graham Swift

Sir Browne, Thomas (1)
- IN: Last Orders (1996) Fiction, British
  EPIGRAPH: But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
  FROM: Urn Burial, (1658), Book, UK
John A. Glover-Kind (1)
- IN: Last Orders (1996) Fiction, British
  EPIGRAPH: I do like to be beside the seaside.
  FROM: I Do Like To be Beside the Seaside, (1907), Song, UK
NULL (2)
- IN: Waterland (1983) Fiction, British
  EPIGRAPH: Historia, -ae, f. 1. inquiry, investigation, learning...
  FROM: Dictionary, (None), Definition, NULL
Charles Dickens (2)
- IN: Waterland (1983) Fiction, British
  EPIGRAPH: Ours was the marsh country...
  FROM: Great Expectations, (1861), Novel, UK
Virgil (1)
- IN: Ever After (1992) Fiction, British
  EPIGRAPH: ...et mentem mortalia tangunt
  FROM: Aeneid, 1, (-19), Poem, Greece
John Donne (1)
- IN: Tomorrow (2007) Fiction, British
  EPIGRAPH: Were we not wean'd till then?
  FROM: The Good-Morrow, (1633), Poem, UK
Laurence Sterne (1)
- IN: England and Other Stories (2014) Fiction, British
  EPIGRAPH: L--d! said my mother, what is this story about?
  FROM: Tristram Shandy, (1759), Novel, Ireland

Preeta Samarasan (1)
- IN: Evening is the Whole Day (2008) Fiction, NULL
  EPIGRAPH: History begins only at the point where things go wrong; history is born only with trouble, with perplexity, with regret. So that hard on the heels of the word Why comes the sly and wistful word If. If if had not been for... If only... Were it not... Those useless Ifs of history. And, constantly impeding, deflecting, distracting the backward searchings of the question why, exists this other form of retrogression: If only we could have it back. A New Beginning. If only we could return...
  FROM: Waterland, (1983), Novel, NULL
Janette Turner Hospital (1)
- IN: Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) Fiction, Australian
  EPIGRAPH: For what is water ... but a liquid form of Nothing? And what are the Fens ... but a landscape which, of all landscapes, most approximates to Nothing? ... Every Fenman suffers now and then the illusion that the land he walks over is not there. ...
  FROM: Waterland, (1983), Novel, UK