File contains correspondence and an article in The Times regarding the making of the French-British thriller film Shuttlecock, based on Swift's novel of the same name, directed by Andrew Piddington and starring Alan Bates, Lambert Wilson and Kenneth Haigh. Specific contents are as follows: 8 ...
Correspondence: Slovakia and Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia)
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File contains the following: 2 letters to Swift from Manuela Lenochova (nee Gheorghe), PhD student. Dated 1993 to 1994. Correspondence to Swift from Jamila Karas, Czechoslovakia as was, chiefly regarding possibility of interview for Xantippe magazine, with poster advertising Civic Forum entitled...
File contains a photocopy (1 page) of an interview given by Swift to 'Maariv' for an Israeli publication. Attached is a note from 'Teresa' [no surname given] of Swift's agent A P Watt, referring to the attached photocopy as an enclosure. The name of the publication is unclear.
International press: reviews - The Light of Day (2003)
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File contains folded newspaper pages and photocopies of articles reviewing the novel. Featured papers include The Independent on Sunday, The New York Review, The Telegraph, The Observer, and photocopies of the Irish Times and The Washington Post.
Publication and promotion: correspondence and related papers - Ever After (1992)
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File contains: 1 handwritten letter dated 29 April 1992 from Jessica Green of Picador to Swift regarding the enclosed large (at least A2-size) folded print of an advert produced by Knopf publishers (Picador, United States of America) to publicise Ever After in the New York Times Book Review sect...
Publication and press involvement - Waterland (1983)
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Relating to the first publication of Waterland in 1983, this file contains: 1 photocopy of a 2-page interview given by Swift to John Walsh, published in Books and Bookmen. Swift has marked it has '1st interview on 'W' [Waterland], and one of 1st press interviews generally.' 1 publicity folded p...
Responses to Graham Swift's work: Unidentified responses to Ever After
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File contains 3 unpublished academic essays on Swift's work. There is no identifiable author, but the works are presented similarly and are probably by the same author. The works are entitled: Ever After: The Novel of Ether or the Novel of Reality? Ever After or The Original Novel Ever After or ...
1 apparently complete, or near-complete, manuscript draft of Wish You Were Here, with a few pages in typescript and several pages of partial manuscript re-writes.