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Border 6 Days of Awe 7 Sabrina 8 The Written World 10 The Future is History 10 The Alarming Palsy of James Orr 11 To the Back of Beyond 11 Eat the Buddha 12 Certain American States 13 When Words Fail 14 How the World Thinks 15 Ghost Wall 16 Stranger in a Strange Land 18 A Revolution of Feeling 18 A New Map of Wonders 19 The Minister and the Murderer 19 Chamber Music 20 Homeland 21
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Such Small Hands 28 Kolyma Diaries 28 The Last Children of Tokyo 29 Convenience Store Woman 30 Four Soldiers 31 Nine Pints 32 The White Book 33 Things We Lost in the Fire 33 Brilliant Maps 34 GRANTA EDITIONS All the Devils Are Here 36 Texaco 37
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January
Border A Journey to the Edge of Europe
February
Kapka Kassabova An unforgettable journey through the borderlands of the old Iron Curtain that today mark the outer reaches of Europe.
March
winner of the saltire society scottish book of the year award winner of the saltire society non-fiction book of the year award shortlisted for the baillie gifford prize shortlisted for the gordon burn prize
April
‘Haunting’ Colin Thubron ‘A marvellous book about a magical part of the world’ Guardian ‘Sensationally good’ Sunday Times
May
‘A dazzling work of art and reportage, an iridescent book, glittering with stories of horror, comedy and actual magic’ Horatio Clare
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‘Exceptional’ New Statesman twelve minutes of love PB £8.99 978 1 84627 285 1
‘Thoughtful and impressive’ Observer ‘A big-hearted book for what seems an increasingly mean-spirited age’ Daily Telegraph
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kapka kassabova is the author of several poetry collections, numerous travel essays, a novel and the acclaimed memoirs Street Without a Name and Twelve Minutes of Love.
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Days of Awe A. M. Homes February
A stunning volume of stories from the winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
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ith her signature humour and psychological accuracy, A.M. Homes returns to tell thirteen stories exposing the heart of an uneasy 21st-century America.
‘Very few writers push the envelope with such style and confidence’ Mark Haddon
May
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Her first book since the Women’s Prize-winning May We Be Forgiven, Days of Awe is another visionary, fearless and outrageously funny work from a master storyteller.
April
In tales that explore our attachments to each other, Homes peers beneath the surface of what it means to be a family, and into our marriages and our secret histories. In ‘A Prize for Every Player’ a man is nominated to run for president while he and his family do their weekly shopping. And in ‘Days of Awe’ old friends rediscover themselves and one another – finding spiritual and physical comfort in ancient traditions.
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‘This prose has teeth... you cannot shake a Homes story off your mind’ Zadie Smith
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a. m. homes is the author of several novels, including May We Be Forgiven, which won the 2013 Women’s Prize and This Book Will Save Your Life, a Richard and Judy pick in 2007. She is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair.
June
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‘Outraging, profoundly saddening, moving, and finally magnificent’ Mary Gaitskill
January
Sabrina
February
Nick Drnaso
‘The best book – in any medium – I have read about our current moment… a masterpiece’ Zadie Smith
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here is Sabrina?
March
The answer is hidden on a videotape, a tape which is en route to several news outlets, and about to go viral.
April
A landmark graphic novel, already trailed as one of the most exciting works of recent years, Sabrina is a story of modern terror, fringe paranoia, isolation and mainstream misinformation – a book that tells the story of those left behind in the wake of tragedy, and possesses the rare power to leave readers pulverised. Praise for Nick Drnaso:
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‘Sabrina is startling. Drnaso’s formal ingenuity is matched by the acuity and depth of the story’s awareness of who and where we are right now’ Jonathan Lethem
June
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‘Nick Drnaso is one of the most ambitious, singular cartoonists to emerge in recent years, and his dedication to novelistic fiction is an inspiration. Incisive, chilling, and completely unpredictable, Sabrina demonstrates the inexplicable power of comics at their best’ Adrian Tomine
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‘He will do things on paper that no other human has yet imagined’ Chris Ware
nick drnaso was born in 1989 in Palos Hills, Illinois. His debut graphic novel, Beverly, received the LA Times Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel. He has contributed to several comics anthologies, self-published a handful of comics, and been nominated for three Ignatz Awards. He lives in Chicago.
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January
The Written World How Literature Shaped History
Martin Puchner
‘An enthralling account of how writing developed… Told with lively engagement… Puchner’s boundless curiosity propels him not just through the world of books but around the globe… Breathtaking’ The Times ‘Not only an expansive, exuberant survey of the central importance of literature in human culture, it is also a great adventure story’ Stephen Greenblatt non-fiction £9.99 July B format 198 × 129mm PB 432pp Selling Territories: NCR Rights: SL Agent: Felicity Bryan
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The true story of literature – how writing changed civilizations, cultures and the history of the world.
martin puchner has published over a dozen books, collections and anthologies and is the general editor of the six-volume Norton Anthology of World Literature, used by students worldwide.
The Future is History How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Masha Gessen May
winner of the national book award for nonfiction 2017
June
A sweeping, revelatory history of post-Soviet Russia, showing precisely how the hope of democracy gave way to a devastating new strain of autocracy.
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‘Masha Gessen is humbly erudite, deftly unconventional, and courageously honest. She works in the best Russian tradition of seekers of truth about difficult subjects, and she does this tradition proud’ Timothy Snyder
masha gessen is a journalist and the author of several books including Blood Matters and The Man Without a Face, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2012.
January
The Alarming Palsy of James Orr Tom Lee
February
An exquisite nightmare in suburbia, from a young British writer of formidable and disturbing talent. ‘This contemporary suburban noir […] skilfully lures you into a delicately creeping nightmare’ Ross Raisin ‘A slim shiver of dread and paranoia… superb’ Stuart Evers
tom lee was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. His writing has appeared in the Sunday Times, Esquire and Prospect, among other publications.
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March
‘Lee’s writing pulses with humour and an appreciation of the abject silliness of human beings… He writes with a needle, and with a short story master’s eye for structure’ Sunday Times
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April
To the Back of Beyond Peter Stamm Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
May
From the Man Booker International finalist, a haunting novel about walking out on your life and the fates of those left behind. ‘A formidable European writer’ New Statesman ‘Enigmatic [and] exceptionally moving’ Observer
June
‘Ingenious’ Financial Times ‘Stamm sets up the psychological territory with such quiet precision that the reader succumbs at once... Extraordinary’ Guardian
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July
peter stamm is the author of five other novels and short story collections, and was a 2013 Man Booker International finalist. michael hofmann has translated the works of many writers, including Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth and Hans Fallada.
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June
Eat the Buddha Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
July
Barbara Demick From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Nothing to Envy, a riveting portrait of 21st-century Tibetan life and resistance, told through the stories from a single town.
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In Eat the Buddha Barbara Demick journeys to Aba, the Tibetan town where the protests began. Often travelling in disguise to get through Chinese government checkpoints, she stays with and interviews Aba’s residents, among them a 17-yearold novice monk contemplating self-immolation and an exiled Tibetan princess. Weaving together their stories with the history of China’s dominance over Tibet, Demick creates a vivid portrait of Tibetan life and the challenges Tibetans face today, locked in a struggle for identity against one of the most powerful countries in the world. Praise for Nothing to Envy: ‘An utterly compelling account’ Mail on Sunday ‘A revelation’ Financial Times
besieged PB £9.99 978 1 84708 411 8
barbara demick won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea. She is also the author of Besieged: Life Under Fire On a Sarajevo Street, which won the George Polk Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Award and was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize. She lives in New York.
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n 1950, China claimed sovereignty over Tibet, leading to decades of unrest and resistance. Since 2009, a spate of Tibetan selfimmolations protesting against Chinese policies have taken place, bringing fraught Tibet–China relations to Western attention once again.
June
Certain American States Catherine Lacey
July
Twelve stories – each a masterful and compassionate guide to the fluctuations of the human heart – from one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists.
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grieving wife gives away the shirts her husband has left behind. A flirtatious widow takes a honeymooning couple to see her husband’s grave. A businessman working for a shadowy organization known as ‘The Company’ checks-in to a room in a strange and remarkable hotel.
September
Certain states are hard to shake, or so Catherine Lacey’s characters find in these twelve tales of love, loss and longing. Praise for The Answers: ‘This summer’s Must-Read novel’ Vogue
October
‘Exciting and clever... an unsettling, whip-smart meditation on love’ Independent ‘Cool, surgically beautiful... there’s no other novel like it out there’ Metro ‘Sharp and funny… Beautifully sad’ Financial Times
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December
catherine lacey is the author of the novels Nobody Is Ever Missing, a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, and The Answers. In 2017 she was named one of Granta magazine’s Best of Young American Novelists.
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November
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June
When Words Fail A Life with Music, War and Peace
July
Ed Vulliamy Built around 16 life-changing gigs and concerts, a passionate investigation of the charged frontier between 20th-century music and politics.
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an music make the world a better place? Can it really ‘belong’ to anyone? Can the magic, mystery and incertitude of music – of the human brain meeting or making sound – stop wars, rehabilitate the broken, unite, educate or inspire?
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From Jimi Hendrix playing ‘Machine Gun’ at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 to the Bataclan under siege in 2015, Ed Vulliamy has lived the music, met the legends, and asked, when words fail, might we turn to music? There’s only one way to find out, and that is to listen...
ed vulliamy is the author of Amexica and The War Is Dead, Long Live the War. He has been an Observer journalist for 20 years and is the author of the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 50th-anniversary liner notes.
June
How The World Thinks A Global History of Philosophy
Julian Baggini July
The first-ever global overview of philosophy and culture, showing how societies today have been shaped by their philosophical traditions.
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ll cultures are different, and have distinctive ways of thinking. In How the World Thinks, Julian Baggini travels the globe to provide a hugely wide-ranging map of human thought. He shows us how distinct branches of philosophy flowered simultaneously in China, India and Ancient Greece and how contemporary cultural attitudes in the West, East Asia and the Muslim world are rooted in the philosophical histories of these regions. He also explores the oft-neglected philosophies transmitted in the oral traditions of Africa and Australia’s first peoples.
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Interviewing thinkers from all around the world, he asks why, for instance, is the West seen as more individualistic than the East? Why is secularism not as powerful a force in the Islamic world as in Europe? Why has China been able to resist pressures for greater political freedom? He argues that by gaining greater knowledge of how others think, we take the first step to greater understanding of ourselves. Praise for Julian Baggini: ‘Baggini has that rare but wonderful gift of being able to be at once profound and highly entertaining’ Alexander McCall Smith
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julian baggini’s books include the bestselling The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten and The Ego Trick, among many others. He has written for various newspapers, magazines, academic journals and think tanks. His website is microphilosophy.net.
November
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Ghost Wall July
Sarah Moss A masterclass in the art of the short, unnerving novel, from one of Britain’s best novelists.
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eenage Silvie is living in a remote Northumberland camp as an exercise in experimental archaeology. Her father is a difficult man, obsessed with recreating the discomfort, brutality and harshness of Iron Age life. Haunting Silvie’s narrative is the story of a bog girl, a sacrifice, a woman killed by those closest to her. Meanwhile, the landscape both keeps and reveals the secrets of past violence and ritual as the summer builds to its terrifying climax. Advance praise:
October
‘I love this book. Ghost Wall requires you to put your life on hold while you finish it. It draws you into its unusual world and, with quiet power and menace, keeps you there until the very last page. Silvie’s story isn’t one you will ever forget’ Maggie O’Farrell
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sarah moss is the author of five other novels, including Bodies of Light and The Tidal Zone. Her account of her time in Iceland, Names for the Sea, was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2013 and she has three times been shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize.
June July
‘Sarah Moss is a writer of exceptional gifts. She writes better than anyone I know about the way we live now’ Margaret Drabble
August September
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Stranger in a Strange Land Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem
George Prochnik July
A daring, singular biography of one of the great forgotten thinkers of the 20th century – Gershom Scholem, the founder of modern Kabbalah. shortlisted for the jewish quarterly wingate prize ‘Gripping, illuminating, beautifully constructed’ James Lasdun
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‘Prochnik blends history, philosophy, and memoir with exemplary panache’ Pankaj Mishra biography £12.99 August B format 198 × 129mm PB 528pp b/w photos Selling territories: NCR Rights: SL Agent: Other Press
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george prochnik is the author of the critically acclaimed The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World, among other books. He lives in New York City.
A Revolution of Feeling The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind
October
Rachel Hewitt A captivating history of the turbulent decade in which the Enlightenment collapsed and the modern psyche was born, from the bestselling author of Map of a Nation.
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‘Remarkably ambitious… An exhilarating journey through the 1790s’ Guardian ‘An extraordinary book about how the French Revolution shaped British perceptions of emotion’ The Times history £9.99 November B format 198 × 129mm PB Selling Territories: NCR Rights: SL Agent: Wylie Agency 978 1 84708 574 0 (PB) 978 1 84708 575 7 (Ebook)
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rachel hewitt is the author of Map of a Nation, which was shortlisted for the Galaxy Award for best popular non-fiction book in 2011.
June
A New Map of Wonders A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels
Caspar Henderson From the author of the celebrated The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, a mesmerising investigation of wonder. July
‘This book does exactly what it says on the cover, and shows us where wonder is to be found. His account of familiar phenomena shows how unfamiliar and extraordinary they really are’ Philip Pullman ‘A wondrous brew of science, history, and sheer exhilaration. Read it and marvel’ Sarah Bakewell
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caspar henderson’s debut, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, won the Roger Deakin Award of the Society of Authors and the Jerwood Award of the Royal Society of Literature.
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September
The Minister and the Murderer A Book of Aftermaths
October
Stuart Kelly Can a self-confessed murderer become a priest? What would the Church – or the Bible – say about that? And what if his crime were a most unusual crime indeed… ‘Wickedly, reverently good. I loved it’ Eleanor Catton
November
‘A colossal achievement’ Richard Holloway ‘An extraordinary book’ Robert Macfarlane ‘A beautiful, deeply thought-provoking exploration of the history and purpose of faith’ Denise Mina
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stuart kelly is the author of The Book of Lost Books and Scott-Land: The Man Who Invented A Nation, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
June
Chamber Music Enter the Wu-Tang (in 36 Pieces)
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Will Ashon A book about one of the most important albums of all time, which reinvents music writing.
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ill Ashon tells, in 36 interlinked ‘chambers’, the story of Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and how it changed the world. As unexpected and complex as the album itself, Chamber Music ranges from provocative essays to semi-comic skits, from deep scholarly analysis to satirical celebration, seeking to contextualise, reveal and honour this singularly composite work of art.
September
From the FBI’s war on drugs to the porn theatres of 42nd street, from the history of jazz to the future of politics, Chamber Music is an explosive and revelatory new way of writing about music and culture.
October
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‘Fascinating... [A] glorious book you’ll enjoy getting lost in’ Observer ‘Ashon [writes] with verve and a winning candour’ New Statesman
November
‘[Ashon]shows courage in taking on this ambitious project and deserves acclaim for pulling it off in such style’ Spectator
December
will ashon is the author of Strange Labyrinth and two novels. He previously ran BIG DADA records where his artists included Roots Manuva, MF DOOM, Kate Tempest and Diplo.
June
Homeland Walter Kempowski July
From the bestselling author of All for Nothing, a sharply evocative novel of one man’s journey into his family history and the troubled legacy of WWII.
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t is 1988 – the year before the Berlin Wall came down. Jonathan Fabricus, a journalist living in West Germany, is asked to travel to the contested lands of former East Prussia to write about the route for a car rally. It’s a plum job, but his interest is piqued by a personal connection. Here, among the refugees fleeing the advancing Russians in 1945, he was born.
September
Homeland is a searing, nuanced work from one of the great modern European storytellers, in which an everyday German comes face to face with a painful family history, and devastating questions about Germans’ complicity in the war.
‘A novel of profound depth and originality’ Sunday Times
October
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he path to radical social change is never smooth – there are many questions to address. Who controls the discourse? Who is excluded, and why? Is #metoo a flash in the pan? Will there be a backlash, and what might that look like? And most importantly, how do we ensure that debate produces substantive change?
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Such Small Hands Andrés Barba Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman
February
A dark, uncanny jolt of literary perfection. ‘Chilling… more than just a scary story’ Susan Hill ‘Chilling… so uncanny as to be almost sinister… a superbly skilful translation’ Sarah Perry, Guardian
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‘Chilling… Barba’s grasp of the vertiginous balance between the real and the imaginary is absolute’ Financial Times andrs barba is the author of twelve novels. His writing has been translated into eight languages. lisa dillman won the Best Translated Book Award 2016 for Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera.
Kolyma Diaries A Journey into Russia’s Haunted Hinterland
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May
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January
The Last Children of Tokyo Yoko Tawada Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani
February
From one of Japan’s most daring writers comes a haunting novel set in a near-future Tokyo, in which the old live almost for ever and the children are dying young.
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As hopes for Japan’s youngest generation fade, a secretive organisation embarks on an audacious plan to find a cure for Tokyo’s children – might Yoshiro’s great-grandson be the key?
‘Funny, subtle and strangely moving’ Economist ‘Exquisite’ New Yorker June
yoko tawada has been awarded the most prestigious literary prizes in Germany and Japan, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Kleist Prize and the Goethe Medal. She is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear.
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Convenience Store Woman Sakaya Murata
July
Translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori
An international, literary sensation about an unconventional young woman who finds happiness in a Tokyo convenience store.
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eiko has never fitted in. At school and university people find her odd, and her family worries she’ll never be accepted. To make them happy, Keiko takes a job at a newly opened convenience store where she finds peace and purpose in the simple daily tasks.
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But in Keiko’s social circle it just won’t do for an unmarried woman to spend her time stacking shelves and ordering green tea. As pressure mounts on Keiko to find a new job – or worse, a husband – she is forced to take desperate action. Advance praise:
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Four Soldiers Hubert Mingarelli Translated from the French by Sam Taylor July
From the author of A Meal in Winter, a resonant story of war and friendship.
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919. The Russian Civil War. It is the harsh dead of winter, as four soldiers set up camp in a forest somewhere near the Romanian front line. There is a lull in the fighting, so their days are filled with precious hours of freedom, enjoying the tranquillity of a nearby pond and trying to forget their terrifying nightmares, all the while talking, smoking and waiting. Waiting for spring to come, waiting for their battalion to move on, waiting for the inevitable resumption of violence. Tightly focused and simply told, this is a story of friendship and the fragments of happiness that can illuminate the darkness of war.
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sam taylor is a translator, novelist and journalist. His translated works include Laurent Binet’s award-winning novel HHhH.
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June
Nine Pints A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood
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Rose George
From a prizewinning writer, a fascinating exploration of blood: the stuff of life, the stuff of nightmares, and one of the most expensive liquids on the planet.
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ost humans contain between nine and twelve pints of blood. Rose George, who probably contains nine pints, tells nine different stories about the liquid that sustains us, discovering what it reveals about who we are. In Nepal, she meets girls challenging the taboos surrounding menstruation; in the Canadian prairies, she visits a controversial plasma clinic; in Wales, she gets a tour of the UK’s only leech farm to learn about the ancient art of blood-letting and its modern revival in microsurgery; and in a London hospital, she accompanies a medical team revolutionising the way we treat trauma.
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The White Book Han Kang Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith
June
From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian, a meditation on the colour white; a book about light, death and ritual. ‘A brilliant psychogeography of grief … A mysterious text, perhaps in part a secular prayer book… The White Book succeeds in reflecting Han’s urgent desire to transcend pain with language’ Deborah Levy, Guardian
han kang’s novels include Human Acts and The Vegetarian, which won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize.
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‘Wonderful. A quietly gripping contemplation on life, death and the existential impact of those who have gone before’ Eimear McBride
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Things We Lost in the Fire Mariana Enriquez
September
Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
An international bestseller, these chilling stories take the reader into the dark and haunted streets of contemporary Argentina. ‘Phenomenal’ Vanity Fair
‘Stylish and compelling… Full of claustrophobic terror’ Financial Times mariana enrquez is an Argentine novelist, journalist and short story writer. Her work has been translated into over twenty languages.
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Brilliant Maps
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Revelatory, thought-provoking and fun, Brilliant Maps is a unique atlas of culture, history, politics and miscellanea, compiled by the editor of the 91% Moscow Brilliant Maps website. As visually arresting iconic as Information is Beautiful and as full of surprising facts and figures as any encyclopaedia, Brilliant Maps is a stunning piece of cartography that maps our curious and varied planet.
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ian wright runs Brilliant Maps, one of the most popular and most visited cartographic sites on the internet. In addition to being a cartophile, he’s also a keen walker. In 2015, he combined these two passions to become the first person to walk all of the new expanded London Tube map.
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All the Devils Are Here David Seabrook
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An infamous exploration of the Kent coast – a dark, strange, sui generis, very British classic. ‘Its intense interest, its uncanny spookiness, the way it ensnares you, turning your stomach, messing with your head… All the Devils Are Here demands to be reread, picked over, endlessly discussed’ Rachel Cooke, Observer
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Texaco Patrick Chamoiseau Translated from the French by Rose-Myraim Rejouis and Val Vinokurov
May
‘One of the major fictional achievements of our century’ The Times
First published in 1992, and awarded France’s highest literary honour, the Prix Goncourt — a kaleidoscopic classic of Caribbean literature.
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Index A
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Alarming Palsy of James Orr, The 11 All the Devils Are Here 36 Ashon, Will 20
Han, Kang Henderson, Casper Hewitt, Rachel Homeland Homes, A.M. How the World Thinks Hugo-Bader, Jacek
B Baggini, Julian Barba, Andrés Border Brilliant Maps
15 28 6 34
C Certain American States Chamber Music Chamoiseau, Patrick Convenience Store Woman
13 20 36 30
S 33 19 18 21 7 15 28
7 12 8
E Eat the Buddha Enriquez, Mariana
12 33
K Kassabova, Kapka Kelly, Stuart Kempowski, Walter Kolyma Diaries
6 19 21 28
Four Soldiers 31
Future is History, The
Vulliamy, Ed
L Lacey, Catherine
13
Last Children of Tokyo, The
29
Lee, Tom
11
M Mingarelli, Hubert Minister and the Murderer, The Moss, Sarah Murata, Sayaka
31 19 16 30
New Map of Wonders, A Nine Pints
19 32
10
P G George, Rose Gessen, Masha Ghost Wall Granta 144: Summer issue Granta 145: Autumn issue
32 10 16 24 25
Tawada, Yoko Texaco Things We Lost in the Fire To the Back of Beyond
29 37 33 11
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N F
8 36 11 18 28
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D Days of Awe Demick, Barbara Drnaso, Nick
Sabrina Seabrook, David Stamm, Peter Stranger in a Strange Land Such Small Hands
Prochnik, George Puchner, Martin
18 10
R Revolution of Feeling, A
18
14
W When Words Fail White Book, The Written World, The Wright, Ian
14 33 10 34
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