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The Bridegroom Was a Dog 2 Nineteen Eighty-Four 3 The Second Coming 4 Cross 6 The Watermark 7 Fantasia 8 The Happiness of Dogs 9 A Sunny Place for Shady People 10 Suggested in the Stars 11 All the Rage 13 How the World Eats 14 The Dead of Winter 16 In Writing 18 And the Walls Became the World All Around 20
Paperbacks and gift editions Julia 21 Do Not Say We Have Nothing 22 Ghost Wall 22 The Possessed 22 Best of Granta 23 Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare 24 Blackouts 24 An Ordinary Youth 25 Though the Bodies Fall 25 Nature’s Calendar 26 Dope Girls 27 A Book of Noises 27 The Factory 28 The Hole 28 Brilliant Maps in the Wild 29
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STOP PRESS yoko tawada is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear, The Last Children of Tokyo, which won the National Book Award in 2018 under the title The Emissary, and Scattered All Over the Earth. margaret mitsutani
is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Kenzaburō Ōe.
The Bridegroom Was a Dog Yoko Tawada
Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani
A tale of passion and romance between a schoolteacher and a dog, from the prizewinning Japanese author of The Last Children of Tokyo. A schoolteacher tells her students the fable of a princess who promises her hand in marriage to a dog she is intimate with. That very dog appears to the schoolteacher in real life as a doglike man. A romantic – and sexual – courtship develops, much to the chagrin of her friends, who have suspicions about the man’s identity and motives. ‘Her masterpiece’ New York Times
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‘Brilliant, shimmering strangeness’ Rivka Galchen
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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George Orwell
A deluxe cloth-bound 75th-anniversary edition of the most iconic British novel of the twentieth century. With an introduction by Sandra Newman, author of Julia, and added archival material. Orwell’s dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative has never been more essential reading. Winston Smith obeys the Party, rewriting history at the Ministry of Truth. Increasingly, Winston grows to hate the persecution of those who commit Thoughtcrime. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...
george orwell
(1903 –1950) was born Eric Arthur Blair in India. An author and journalist, he was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century literature.
‘One of the most significant novels of the twentieth century’ Guardian original
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own below, she found a pillar mid-platform to lean against and put her subway face on and her earbuds in and sucked a bead of blood from her pricked thumb and was just about to pull up the Albums menu and lose herself in a Prince bootleg called The Second Coming when she felt the phone slip from her grasp. There was a slight, distinct tug at the end of the knotted white cord – a fish striking the end of a line. Then the jack gave way and the phone continued its downward arc, clipping the yellow braille of the platform edge, spinning off and clattering to the tracks below.
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The Second Coming A luminous novel from the New York Timesbestselling author of City on Fire, plunging us deep into the lives of a teenage girl and her father as they navigate love, grief, betrayal and redemption. When 13-year-old Jolie Aspern drops her phone onto the subway tracks in 2011, her estranged dad, Ethan, convicted felon and recovering addict, receives a call from his ex that makes him fear their daughter is in deep trouble. And believing he’s the only one who can save her, he returns to New York with a gift: the whole of his life, its hardwon triumphs and harrowing mistakes.
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GARTH RISK HALLBERG is the author of the
international bestseller City on Fire and the novella A Field Guide to the North American Family. In 2017, he was named as a Granta Best of Young American Novelist.
‘A sprawling, aching, ultimately hopeful account of a father’s love for a daughter and a daughter’s defiance of that love when all too often it manifests as dysfunction’ Joshua Ferris ‘Reading Garth Risk Hallberg is a constant delightful surprise – you never know what’s coming next… A beautiful and daring novel, as inventive as it is breathtaking’ Nathan Hill ‘Full of tension and emotion and populated by vivid characters and ideas’ Christina Baker Kline
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the author of The Night Interns, an Irish Times bestseller; Ten Days, shortlisted for the Diverse Awards; and This Living and Immortal Thing, shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year.
A masterful novel of betrayal and violence in a tight-knit community in Northern Ireland during the 1990s ceasefire, from the author of Irish Times bestseller The Night Interns. 1994. In the Northern Irish border town of Cross, after decades of violent activity protesting British rule, a community plays out its endgame. An intricate tale of betrayal and brutality at the height of the Troubles, Cross intimately captures the language, humour, loyalties and divisions within a lawless town which has lost its way in its battle for the nation. Praise for The Night Interns:
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‘A sharp shock of a book, visceral, and acutely affecting’ Lisa McInerney
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The Watermark Two star-crossed lovers tumble between fictional worlds in this breathtaking and utterly original exploration of the lives we lead and the stories we tell in the course of a relationship. Augustus Fate, a once-lauded novelist, is struggling with his latest creation. When Jaime and Rachel stumble into his remote cottage, he spies opportunity, imprisoning them within his novel-in-progress. Now, the fledgling couple must try to find their way back home through a labyrinthine network of novels. And as they move from Victorian Oxford to a utopian Manchester, a harsh Russian winter to an AI-dominated nearfuture, they must work out if this relationship of so many presents can have any future at all.
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sam mills is the author of The Quiddity of Will Self, three young adult novels and a memoir. She is the co-founder of the independent press Dodo Ink and lives in London.
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Nisha Ramayya
Fantasia hazards a listening walk through sea‑ shells, telecommunication networks, and cosmic vibrations, to learn something new about how we sound. Alice Coltrane’s experiments in jazz and spiritual community guide these poems that hum and glitch, that leap across space-time, landing in and reflecting the discordant music of life on earth.
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nisha ramayya is the author of States of the Body Produced by Love, among other works. She is a lecturer in creative writing at Queen Mary, University of London.
From one of the UK’s most original poets, this masterful second collection revels in sound, situating listening as a political act; a way of attuning to the world around us.
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The Happiness of Dogs
Why the Unexamined Life is Most Worth Living
A groundbreaking exploration of how dogs experience the world and how they can help us understand ourselves better, from the author of The Philosopher and the Wolf. While dogs feel unparalleled joy in the moment, humans are burdened by anxiety and doubt. Drawing on his life lived with dogs, the ideas of philosophers and the psychology of canine cognition, Mark Rowlands digs deep into dogs’ morality, freedom, consciousness, intelligence and love of life, to explore the unique way they experience the world, and to bring us closer to an understanding of ourselves. Praise for The Philosopher and the Wolf:
‘A seminal work of philosophy that forces us to re-evaluate our view of the human animal’ John Gray
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‘[An] extraordinary memoir… moving and profound’ Daily Mail
Born in Newport, Wales, mark rowlands is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami and the author of many books, including the bestselling The Philosopher and the Wolf.
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y aunt had caught Julie having sex with the spirits. My mother choked on her wine when she heard that, and she spat a mouthful onto the table: it looked like watered-down blood on the white Formica. My dad peered diffidently at Julie, and she met his gaze unabashed. That’s when my uncle left. ‘I don’t know how she does it’, my aunt went on, now without shame, naked, relieved.
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A Sunny Place for Shady People Mariana Enriquez
Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
A delicious, diabolical collection of short stories, from the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night. Mariana Enriquez’s A Sunny Place for Shady People is her first story collection since the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, the occult and the macabre, the stories explore love, womanhood, countercultures, parenthood and Argentina’s brutal past.
MARIANA ENRIQUEZ is the award-winning
author of Things We Lost in the Fire, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, and Our Share of Night.
MEGAN McDOWELL is the award-winning translator of Samanta Schweblin and Alejandro Zambra, among others.
OUR SHARE OF NIGHT 978 1 78378 822 4
THE DANGERS OF SMOKING IN BED 978 1 78378 821 7
Praise for The Dangers of Smoking in Bed:
‘The most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction in some time’ Kazuo Ishiguro ‘Smoky, carnal and dazzling’ Lauren Groff
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‘Darkly comic… Deeply unsettling’ The Times 11 11
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yoko tawada is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear, The Last Children of Tokyo, which won the National Book Award in 2018 under the title The Emissary, and Scattered All Over the Earth. margaret mitsutani
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Suggested in the Stars Yoko Tawada
Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani
The electric sequel to Scattered All Over the Earth, from the prizewinning Japanese author. Hiruko, from the now-vanished archipelago ‘somewhere between China and Polynesia’, and her companions have searched in vain for someone who speaks her native language. They finally track down a sushi chef from the same nation, but he has apparently lost the power of speech. If Hiruko is ever to hear her mother tongue again, a sceptical aphasia specialist is her last hope. ‘Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things’ Sara Baume ‘Every Yoko Tawada novel pulls the ground out from under us, but gives us new senses in return’ Madeleine Thien
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Why Anger Drives the World
A psychoanalyst’s groundbreaking exploration of the taboo emotion of anger, increasingly present in our personal and political lives, from the acclaimed author of Not Working. From personal spats to extremist divisions, anger is all around us. It affects our bodies and can transition into violence. What should we do with it, and can it ever be put to good use? Drawing on case studies, neuropsychology, literature and politics, Josh Cohen identifies its different forms, offering a new understanding of anger as a primary human drive, that we may better handle the rage within us.
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psychoanalyst and Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths. He is the author of Not Working, The Private Life and How to Read Freud, among other books.
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‘A polemic against our overwork culture… Brilliant’ Guardian
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hich foods represent your part of the world? You may think of prized local produce, like the alphonso mangos of Maharashtra in western India, Kentish cob nuts, Seville oranges or Amalfi lemons. Yet, delicious as these are, none truly represents how we typically eat today, at least not in the industrialised world. And most of us still have only a sketchy idea of the stories behind the foods in our fridges and cupboards. There is a lot to learn, and the first lesson is that it is much more complicated than you could ever imagine.
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How the World Eats A Global Food Philosophy
An exploration of how we grow, make, buy and eat our food around the world, which sets out to find the principles for a global philosophy of food; from the Sunday Timesbestselling author of How the World Thinks. The need for a better understanding of how we feed ourselves has never been more urgent. While traditional food systems are often in harmony with the natural environment, they cannot provide for a growing human population dependent on a complex web of production, distribution, con‑ sumption and disposal. Julian Baggini expertly explores the best and worst food practices around the world in a huge array of different societies, past and present, to identify the principles to build a food system fit for the twenty-first century and beyond. Praise for How the World Thinks:
‘A bold, fascinating book… Deft [and] rigorous’ Financial Times ‘A brilliantly accessible coalescence of thought and belief from around the world… a triumph of comparative philosophy with widespread relevance’ Waterstones, Book of the Month
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Sunday Times bestseller How the World Thinks; How to Think Like a Philosopher; and the bestselling The Pig That Wants to be Eaten. He is a member of the Food Ethics Council. HOW THE WORLD THINKS 978 1 78378 230 7
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he Salzburg Christmas Market is a glorious sparkle of glühwein, stollen and greenerytwined fairy-lights. It’s hard to imagine something more traditionally Christmassy. Unless it happens to be December 5th, when hundreds of monsters descend on the market. With masks depicting hideous leering grimaces and jagged teeth, huge curling horns, and costumes of shaggy pelts, these are the Krampuses. The Krampus is said to carry off misbehaving children at Christmas time and many of the costumes here include a wicker basket for just such a purpose.
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The Dead of Winter The Witches, Demons and Monsters of Christmas
Discover the dark side of Christmas in this fascinating exploration of the folk tales and arcane traditions that still haunt winter and the holiday season today… Beneath the bright enchantment of the festive season, there lurks a darker mood – one that has found expression over the centuries in a host of strange and unsettling traditions and lore. Here, Sarah Clegg takes us on a journey through midwinter to explore the lesser-known Christmas traditions, from English hoodenings and Austrian Krampus runs to St Lucy’s Night in Finland.
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SARAH CLEGG has a PhD in ancient history from Cambridge University. Her first book, Woman’s Lore, was shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown. A former bookseller, she now works in publishing.
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‘A remarkable work’ Literary Review ‘Deftly fuses scholarly rigour… an accessible, entertaining style… and a warm-hearted sympathy’ BBC History Magazine ‘An empowering and enlightening read’ Catherine Cho 17 17
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ith contributions from André Aciman, Charlie Brooker, Wendy Cope, Cressida Cowell, Elizabeth Day, Kit de Waal, Geoff Dyer, John Lanchester, Emily St John Mandel, Liane Moriarty, David Nicholls, Maggie O’Farrell, Jon Ronson, Michael Rosen, Curtis Sittenfeld, Brandon Taylor, Barbara Trapido, Meg Wolitzer and many, many more.
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In Writing
Conversations on Inspiration, Perspiration and Creative Desperation
Hattie Crisell Based on Crisell’s popular podcast, here is an inspiring and fascinating glimpse into the creative process – with some of our bestloved contemporary writers.
HATTIE CRISELL writes regularly for The Times, Elle, You magazine, Vogue and Grazia, among others. Since 2019, she has hosted the popular In Writing podcast.
Hattie Crisell invites some of our most-read authors, poets, journalists and screenwriters to share their secrets. Where do ideas come from? What happens when confidence falters or the work fails? And what does writing success look like? The answers are as revelatory and entertaining as they are diverse. Praise for Crisell’s In Writing podcast:
‘Thanks to these interviews, every element of a professional’s routine is revealed, from Lucy Prebble’s description of the Succession writers’ room to Grace Dent’s fondness for working in bed’ Guardian ‘I absolutely love Hattie’s In Writing podcast – the best there is on the subject’ David Nicholls 19 19
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(1970–2022) was the author of thirteen previous books, all published by Albert Bonniers in Sweden. sigrid rausing was
the editor of Granta magazine from 2013 to 2023. She is the publisher of Granta Publications, and the author of three books, including Mayhem.
And the Walls Became the World All Around Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing Translated from the Swedish by Sigrid Rausing
A writer’s notebook on loss, a diary of illness, and a book of friendship. Johanna Ekström was a Swedish artist and writer who published over a dozen books of poetry, fiction and memoir in her lifetime. In 2022, ill with cancer, she asked her closest friend, Sigrid Rausing, to edit and finish her final book. Originally a memoir on the loss of a relationship during the pandemic, the focus shifted from the loss of love to, potentially, the loss of life.
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These excerpts from Ekström’s notebooks interwoven with Rausing’s reflections on the text and on their friendship are a testament to a voice and a life; a book made in grief over the loss of a close friendship of over thirty years.
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Julia
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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER A magnificent retelling of Nineteen EightyFour that goes beyond Winston Smith’s story to reveal what Oceania was like for women. Julia Worthing works in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. She knows how to survive in a world of constant surveillance, Newspeak, Doublethink and the threat of the Thought Police. But when she comes into contact with a midlevel worker from the Records Department called Winston Smith, she begins to lose her grip.
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‘A masterpiece… Succeeds brilliantly’ Daily Telegraph ‘Exhilarating’ Sunday Times
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‘Newman turns Orwell’s classic vision of the future inside out... Readers will find themselves gripped and surprised’ Guardian
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BEST OF GRANTA
Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien
Ghost Wall Sarah Moss
The Possessed Elif Batuman
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize
A New York Times Bestseller
‘A moving and extraordinary evocation of the 20th-century tragedy of China’ Guardian
‘Grabs you by the guts and never lets go. Dazzling’ Elizabeth Day
‘Charming, complex and lifeenhancing’ Sarah Bakewell, Sunday Times
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BEST OF GRANTA is a showcase of our most iconic fiction and non-fiction – titles that conjure the purpose and spirit of Granta Books, presented in a stunning new livery.
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SOMEWHERE TOWARDS THE END 978 1 80351 092 7 £10.99 Memoir
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THE SISTERS BROTHERS 978 1 80351 002 6 £9.99 Fiction
DEPT. OF SPECULATION 978 1 78378 934 4 £9.99 Fiction
THE LUMINARIES 978 1 80351 016 3 £9.99 Fiction
NOTHING TO ENVY 978 1 80351 006 4 £9.99 Non-fiction
LEAVING THE ATOCHA STATION 978 1 80351 004 0 £9.99 Fiction
THE VEGETARIAN 978 1 80351 005 7 £9.99 Fiction
MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME 978 1 80351 007 1 £9.99 Non-fiction
MAY WE BE FORGIVEN 978 1 80351 003 3 £9.99 Fiction
STRAW DOGS 978 1 80351 008 8 £9.99 Philosophy
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Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
A haunting collection of stories that weaves Hawaiian mythology with a rich sense of place, for fans of Mariana Enriquez and Carmen Maria Machado. ‘Wild and wily, and thrumming with originality, these packa-punch short stories are ghost haunted, simmering with superstition and brutally beguiling’ Daily Mail megan kamalei kakimoto is a Fiction Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers.
Her debut novel is forthcoming from Granta Books.
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Justin Torres WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
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A dazzling, shapeshifting novel in which two men – young and old – reckon with queer histories and their place within them.
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‘Ambitious, disarming, full of a kind of daring that winks as it passes’ Alexander Chee justin torres is the author of We The Animals, and has published short fiction in
the New Yorker, Harper’s and Granta, among other publications.
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Walter Kempowski Translated from the German by Michael Lipkin Kempowski’s bestselling, autobiographical coming-of-age novel, set during WWII, is a chilling exploration of how one German family adjusted to life under the Nazis. ‘[With] its moral force and historical interest... [it] captures, if not quite the “banality of evil”, then at least the everydayness of complicity and compromise... [M]ore timely than ever’ Guardian walter kempowski was one of Germany’s most important post-war writers.
His works include All for Nothing and Homeland.
michael lipkin is a professor of German Studies at Hamilton College.
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Though the Bodies Fall Noel O’Regan Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards, a powerful novel set on a clifftop – a story about duty, despair and the chance encounters upon which fate turns.
‘A quietly moving story of stalled lives and lost chances… Stunning’ Irish Times noel o ’ regan won the Seán Dunne Young Writer’s Award and a 2022 Arts Council
Next Generation Artist Award.
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‘I opened it up one evening and was instantly captivated... Haunting’ Sara Baume
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Nature’s Calendar Nature’s Calendar grew out of an online Noticing Nature project run by: writer and editor Kiera Chapman; Lulah Ellender, author of Elisabeth’s Lists and Grounding; writer and researcher Rowan Jaines; and historian and artist Rebecca Warren.
The British Year in 72 Seasons
Kiera Chapman, Lulah Ellender, Rowan Jaines and Rebecca Warren With line drawings by Rebecca Warren
A beautiful new printed paper case hard‑ back edition of this popular companion to the British seasons – all 72 of them. Inspired by a traditional Japanese calendar which divides the year into segments of five to six days, this book guides you through a year of 72 seasons as they manifest in the British Isles, from ‘Catkins dangle’ in January to ‘Tree skeletons and sky’ at the close of the year. ‘A gorgeous guide to the year’ Melissa Harrison ‘Delightful’ Daily Mail
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‘Beautifully eclectic’ BBC Countryfile
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The Birth of the British Drug Underground
Marek Kohn Now a major BBC TV series and Radio 4 Book of the Week – a tour through the seedier side of Britain between the wars, with a new introduction and added material. ‘A fascinating study of society’s perception of drugs’ Observer ‘The best, most perceptive and most authoritative account of the British drug scene ever’ Will Self marek kohn is the author of 9 books, including The Stories Old Towns Tell and
A Reason for Everything.
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Notes on the Auraculous
Caspar Henderson From the Big Bang to the sound of silence, here is a compendium of sounds from this world and beyond. ‘[A] rich and lovely book… irresistible’ Sunday Times
caspar henderson is the award-winning author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings and A New Map of Wonders.
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‘Every page in this book has a fact or observation that trills in me and thrills me’ Scotsman
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A Book of Noises
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Dope Girls
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The Factory Hiroko Oyamada
Translated from the Japanese by David Boyd
From the author of Weasels in the Attic, a vivid, sometimes surreal, modern fable about the all-consuming world of work. ‘Strangely chilling… Nothing feels fixed; everything in the book might be a hallucination’ New York Times ‘Surreal, tactile, and often funny’ Atlantic
The Hole Hiroko Oyamada
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Translated from the Japanese by David Boyd
A woman moves to live with her in-laws in the Japanese countryside in this haunting novel featuring a mysterious relative, an elusive hairy creature, and a strange hole.
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‘A great book’ Patti Smith
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‘Horrific and scary, while at the same time affirming and beautiful’ Rumaan Alam hiroko oyamada is the Akutagawa Prize-winning author of Weasels in the Attic. david boyd is Assistant Professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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A Nature Atlas for Curious Minds
Mike Higgins, with a foreword by Chris Packham
Illustrated by Manuel Bortoletti, Consultant: Ian Wright
From the publishers of Brilliant Maps, here is a colourful cartographic journey through our planet’s weirdest and most wonderful phenomena. Which nations have launched which animals into space? Which countries have no sea views? Who is behind the great avocado boom? Where can you hug the world's oldest trees?
mike higgins is a freelance editor and writer. manuel bortoletti is an award-winning freelance graphic designer. ian wright is the founder of www. brilliantmaps.com. chris packham is a naturalist, nature photographer, television presenter and writer.
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Brilliant Maps in the Wild
Beautifully designed and illustrated, this is an eyeopening celebration of our world and the plants and animals with whom we share it.
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‘Lively infographics, topographical and geographical maps and more… Fun and thoughtprovoking’ National Geographic Traveller
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Granta 168 Edited by Thomas Meaney The UK’s most prestigious literary quarterly brings you prize-winning new fiction, reportage, memoir, poetry and photography from debut writers and established voices.
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‘Me, Rory, and Aurora’ by Jonas Eika, translated from the Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg, was a winner of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction.
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‘Shining the Boot’ by Sarah Bernstein, ‘People Who Live Here’ by Holly Pester, ‘Signal’ by Zakia Uddin, ‘My Father’s Lover Was Never the Stepdad I Wanted Him to Be’ by Isabel Waidner and ‘The Schoolmaster’s Enemy’ by Missouri Williams were all longlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2023. ‘Granta does what a good literary magazine should: showcase the newest by the best authors and the best by the newest authors’ Scotland on Sunday
GRANTA 168 £14.99 July 210 × 145mm PB 224pp All territories 978 1 90988 966 8
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Granta 169: China Edited by Thomas Meaney
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Granta’s special issue on the writing of contemporary China collects many of the mainland’s most thrilling voices – poets, novelists and non-fiction writers, as well as philosophers. The edition pays acute attention to differences in region, generation and style.
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No nation boasts more manufacturing capacity than the People’s Republic of China, yet few countries’ literary products are less known in the English-speaking world. Witnesses to the country’s revolutionary modernisation, China’s writers have experienced historical whiplashes and sprints forward on an extreme scale. The zhiqing – the educated youth whom Mao ‘sent down’ to the countryside and who experienced a decade of extreme austerity – are at a vast distance from the generations below them, who have lived through an epoch of self-assertion and creative dreaming. In China today, writers across generations look abroad, to new technologies, as well as to rich veins in the Chinese literary past for new modes of expression.
GRANTA 169 £14.99 November 210 × 145mm PB 224pp All territories 978 1 90988 968 2 31 31
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