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Tue 05 May 2007The critic faces the unhappy authorGraham Swift's latest book was a disappointment for Eileen Battersby, whose review led to a tense encounter with the authorIt was unexpected, all of it. After all, British writer Graham Swift, author of Waterland, one of the truly great novels not to win the Booker Prize, and author of Last Orders, one of the few truly great novels that did win it, is among the finest of contemporary novelists. When The Light of Day was published in 2003, some seven years after his Booker triumph, it confirmed that Swift was simply getting better and better.