Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 261 pages. Author won the Booker Prize in 1996. Nice copy. Dust jacket shows very light wear but is mostly shiny and new-looking. In his fifth novel, Graham Swift continues to explore the influence of the past on the present through intertwining stories of loss from the 1840s to the end of the twentieth century.