Where to Start with Graham Swift
- Best entry point → Waterland
- Best standalone → The Sweet Shop Owner
- What fans keep coming back to → Mothering Sunday
- Best narrator for Graham Swift → The Light of Day
- Highest rated by listeners → Ever After
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Waterland
by Graham Swift
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 3.71 ABR Score (10.2K ratings)★ 3.89 Goodreads (10.2K) ★ 3.5 Audible (2)12h 57m listening time • Released 2021 -
The Sweet Shop Owner
by Graham Swift
Narrated by Alex Jennings, Sandra Duncan
★ 3.67 ABR Score (747 ratings)★ 3.61 Goodreads (747)7h 28m listening time • Released 2022 -
Ever After
by Graham Swift
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 3.64 ABR Score (784 ratings)★ 3.56 Goodreads (784)9h 20m listening time • Released 2021 -
Mothering Sunday
by Graham Swift
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 3.64 ABR Score (18.7K ratings)★ 3.69 Goodreads (18.7K) ★ 5 Audible (1)3h 30m listening time • Released 2023 -
Last Orders
by Graham Swift, Unknown Author
Narrated by Simon Prebble, Gigi Marceau Clarke, Jenny Sterlin, Ian Stewart, Gerard Doyle, Simon Jones, Domonick Hawksley
★ 3.60 ABR Score (15.2K ratings)★ 3.67 Goodreads (15.1K) ★ 3.74 Audible (179)8h 29m listening time • Released 2003Multiple narrators bring distinct voices to four working-class men on a road trip, turning what could be a simple premise into a layered meditation on memory, loyalty, and unspoken grief that justifies Swift's Booker Prize.
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Twelve Post-War Tales
by Graham Swift
Narrated by Alex Jennings, Patrick Moy, Tania Rodrigues, Joan Walker, Esther Wane
★ 3.51 ABR Score (248 ratings)★ 3.54 Goodreads (247) ★ 5 Audible (1)6h 19m listening time • Released 2025 -
The Light of Day
by Graham Swift
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 3.47 ABR Score (3.2K ratings)★ 3.35 Goodreads (3.2K) ★ 2 Audible (2)8h 9m listening time • Released 2021
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