Under the Eye of the Big Bird
hiromi kawakami has won all the major Japanese literary awards and been shortlisted for the Man Asia Literary Prize and the International Foreign Fiction Prize.
asa yoneda has translated works by Banana Yoshimoto, Aoko Matsuda, and Natsuko Kuroda.
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THE THIRD LOVE
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STRANGE WEATHER IN TOKYO
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THE TEN LOVES OF MR NISHINO
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PEOPLE FROM MY NEIGHBOURHOOD
978 1 84627 699 6
THE NAKANO THRIFT SHOP
978 1 84627 602 6
Hiromi Kawakami
Translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda
An inventive and immersive speculative novel about a future in which humans are nearing extinction, from the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo.
In the distant future, some children are made in factories, from the cells of rabbits and dolphins; some live by getting nutrients from water and light, like plants. Survival of the species depends on the interbreeding of these and other alien beings – but it is far from certain that connection, love, reproduction, and evolution will persist in the faltering new world of Kawakami’s iridescent new novel.
Praise for Hiromi Kawakami’s writing:
‘Beguiling and beautiful’ The Times
‘Quirky and delicate... timeless... I fell totally under the spell’ Daily Mail
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Beartooth
Callan Wink
A tale of two brothers in desperate straits and one high-stakes poaching trip in Yellowstone, from a Dylan Thomas Prize-shortlisted author.
In the Montana backcountry, it’s been a tough year for the two brothers and money is tight. When a menacing figure known as the Scot offers them a risky but potentially lucrative hunting job in Yellowstone National Park, the brothers can’t refuse and before long the precarious nature of their lives and their bond is exposed.
Praise for Wink’s writing:
‘Fine, old-fashioned, rich and juicy fiction’ Jim Harrison
‘Stealthily engrossing’ Daily Mail
callan wink is a fly-fishing guide on the Yellowstone River. He is the author of Dog Run Moon (shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize) and August.
The sky was cloudless, the autumn winds had paused for breath. Sitting on my board beyond the surfline, I was transfixed by the bay’s colour and the swells coming in across it. The sand below the water had turned it glassy turquoise. I had the sense of being suspended, floating over an alien continent. Down there below my bare feet were countless micro-flakes of ores and native metals – tin and copper and zinc, gold and silver.
Under a Metal Sky
A Journey Through Rocks
Philip Marsden
A revelatory journey from Cornish tin mines to Georgian gold mountains in search of the substances that have shaped our human history and whose extraction underpins our imperilled future.
Deep beneath our feet, the earth is full of riches: from ochre to tin, from peat to radium and gold. As Marsden explores abandoned mines, meets archaeologists and mineral-hunters, he uncovers a cache of strange and wonderful stories – of alchemy and mysticism, scientific revolution and progress, and darker tales of plunder, poisoning and environmental damage.
Praise for Marsden’s writing:
‘A truly remarkable writer’ Robert Macfarlane
‘Magical’ Guardian
‘Marsden is a born writer… He wears his learning lightly, and his curiosity is boundless’ Sunday Telegraph
philip marsden is the award-winning author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including Rising Ground and The Summer Isles. His work has been translated into fifteen languages.
Men Explain Things to Me
rebecca solnit is the author of, among other books, Orwell’s Roses, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, Wanderlust, The Faraway Nearby and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. She lives in San Francisco.
Rebecca Solnit
Published as a standalone work for International Woman’s Day, the essay that became a touchstone of the feminist movement and inspired the term ‘mansplaining’, with an afterword on its origins.
This famous and influential essay inspired the term ‘mansplaining’ and established Rebecca Solnit as a vital figure of the feminist movement, and one of the leading thinkers of our time. Fierce, incisive and funny, it exposes the inherent sexism of our patriarchal culture.
WANDERLUST
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THE FARAWAY NEARBY
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ORWELL’S ROSES
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RECOLLECTIONS OF MY NON-EXISTENCE
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THE MOTHER OF ALL QUESTIONS
‘Fearless and provocative’ Independent
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‘Solnit’s writing is its own victory and revolt. Incendiary, inquiring and important’
Sinéad Gleeson, Irish Times
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The Naked Eye
Yoko Tawada
Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
A suspenseful tale of abduction, obsession and lost identity that spans Vietnam, East Berlin, West Germany and Paris – and fantasies of Catherine Deneuve.
A young Vietnamese woman travels from Ho Chi Minh City to speak at an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. On her arrival she is abruptly kidnapped. One night she manages to (mistakenly) escape to Paris. Alone, penniless, she wanders the fringes of society, meeting various shadowy characters. But at the centre of her new life is Catherine Deneuve, whose films she loses herself in and who becomes the object of her obsessions.
‘Every Yoko Tawada novel pulls the ground out from under us, but gives us new senses in return’
Madeleine Thien
‘Tawada’s slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency’ New York Times
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yoko tawada is the author of The Last Children of Tokyo, which won the National Book Award in 2018, published under the title The Emissary, and Scattered All Over the Earth
susan bernofsky is the prizewinning translator of Robert Walser, as well as novels and poetry by Jenny Erpenbeck, Franz Kafka, and others.
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MEMOIRS OF A POLAR BEAR
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THE LAST CHILDREN OF TOKYO
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SCATTERED ALL OVER THE EARTH
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A Room Above a Shop
is a writer, artist, filmmaker and woodworker. He is founder of g39, an artist-led space in Cardiff. This is his debut.
Anthony Shapland
From a new voice in Welsh literature, an atmospheric and poignant story of a relationship between two small-town Valleys men during the late 1980s.
When two quiet men form a tentative connection, neither knows where it might lead. M is a shopkeeper and offers B a job and lodgings, but even as they begin a life together in a way they never imagined possible, they risk everything if their performance in public slips.
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anthony shapland
We Used to Dance Here
Dave Tynan
Taut, humane and unflinching stories that explore Dublin’s underbelly, from a remarkable new writing talent.
We Used to Dance Here is a portrait of both Dublin and Dubliners in flux, exploring life on the margins, toxic masculinity and frustrated ambitions. There are dog tracks, bars and pubs, half-finished estates. Together, these stories show a darker, edgier side to Dublin and they do so in brilliant, crackling prose.
dave tynan is a writer from Dublin. He is the director of numerous awardwinning short films and one feature. His stories have been published in the Stinging Fly and Winter Papers We Used to Dance Here is his first book.
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The more books I read and the more I learned about the proper way of procreation, the more doubts I had. Why had my mother gone to all the trouble of deliberately removing the contraceptive device and copulating in order to get pregnant instead of just being artificially inseminated with my father’s sperm? Just thinking about it made me feel nauseous.
Vanishing World
Sayaka Murata
Translated from the Japanese by Ginny
Tapley Takemori
The mind-blowing, shocking new novel from the author of the multi-million-copy-selling Convenience Store Woman.
In our near-future world, children are solely conceived by artificial insemination. Even sex between married couples is viewed as taboo.
Amane’s family is irregular. Her parents copulated to create her and hope that she too will find love and have a child with the person she marries. But Amane falls in line with society’s way of thinking and wants a regular ‘clean’ marriage. Then she hears of a place that is the subject of a social experiment. Everyone in Paradise-Eden will act as one big family. Could this be the perfect third way?
Praise for the fiction of Sayaka Murata:
‘Exhilaratingly weird and funny’ Sally Rooney
‘A gift to anyone who has ever felt at odds with the world’ Ruth Ozeki
‘Radical, hilarious, heartbreaking’ Elif Batuman
sayaka murata has won all of Japan’s major literary prizes. She is the author of Convenience Store Woman, Earthlings and Life Ceremony.
ginny tapley takemori has translated Ryu Murakami and Kyoko Nakajima, among others.
No More Normal
dr alastair santhouse is a consultant neuropsychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital in London and the author of Head First: A Psychiatrist’s Stories of Mind and Body.
Dr Alastair Santhouse
From a leading consultant neuropsychiatrist, a fresh, timely and compassionate book about the rise of diagnoses in mental health conditions and disorders and what it means for individuals and society.
In recent decades, as the conversation around mental health has evolved, the diagnosis of mental health conditions has risen sharply. Yet are we really less psychologically healthy than previous generations? In this brave and vitally important new book, Dr Alastair Santhouse draws on clinical experience to explain our current malaise and to propose an alternative way of understanding and approaching mental health problems and other human experiences.
Praise for Head First
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‘Santhouse brilliantly illuminates the extraordinary and mysterious ways that our personal stories affect both our mental and our physical health’ Lori Gottlieb
‘An intensely sympathetic physician’ TLS
Absence
Issa Quincy
A stunning, atmospheric debut novel about memory, death and the many ghosts that inhabit the present moment.
An elusive narrator is beguiled by a poem that returns to him in mysterious ways, echoing across the years. He recounts memories and impressions as they float fleetingly to the surface of his mind – a beloved schoolteacher who leaves behind a dark secret; a woman laying the table for a son she knows will never return home; a black and white photograph that tells of a family afflicted by tragedy.
These lives and voices weave into one another – a symphony, subtly constructed, of the murmurs and phantoms that add up to an ordinary life.
issa quincy is a British novelist, playwright, poet and director who is currently based in New York City. His writing has appeared in the London Magazine, New Rivers Press and Transition Magazine
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Halfa century ago, during the rainy season, when I was seven years old, my father and I reached the Sea. According to rumours, this place had started as a military outpost. The empire to which it belonged had crumbled and the outpost had, over centuries, become a noman’s land. People who had no other nation began to take refuge here; they constructed dwellings atop dwellings, until hundreds of buildings appeared to wrap around, and even through, one another. They named their home the Sea.
The Book of Records
Madeleine Thien
The remarkable new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which leaps across centuries past and future as if different eras were separated by only a door.
Lina and her father have arrived at the Sea, a stagingpost between migrations. In this building made of time, pasts and futures collide, and their neighbours’ stories fuse with those of philosophers from previous centuries: Baruch Spinoza, Hannah Arendt and the Chinese poet Du Fu. Exploring the role of fate in history and the migratory nature of humanity, this is a profound, searching and hugely original novel from a master storyteller at the height of her powers.
Praise for Do Not Say We Have Nothing:
‘Restrained, courageous and profound’ Observer, ‘Best Books of the Year’
‘Extraordinary’ Financial Times
‘A brilliant meditation on language and memory’ Guardian
madeleine thien is the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted and Giller PrizeWinner Do Not Say We Have Nothing, as well as two other novels and a collection of stories. She lives in Montreal.
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No Straight Road Takes You There
Essays for Uneven Terrain
Rebecca Solnit
From the climate crisis and the pandemic to trends in masculinity, a stellar collection of Rebecca Solnit’s most recent thinking exploring how we can effect change through the power of stories.
In this latest collection of essays both lyrical and political, Solnit explores the slow, the indirect and the unpredictable and how recognition of these aspects of change equip us to participate in making it. These recent essays about the climate crisis, as well as Solnit’s broader reflections on women’s rights and the fight for democracy, demonstrate the power of collective action to offer us all an alternative path out of the wilderness.
Praise for Rebecca Solnit:
‘No writer has weighed the complexity of sustaining hope in our times of readily available despair more thoughtfully or more beautifully, nor with greater nuance’ Maria Popova
‘Solnit taught me that activism is poetic’ Florence Welch
rebecca solnit is the author of, among other books, Orwell’s Roses, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, and the landmark feminist essay collection Men Explain Things to Me. She lives in San Francisco.
The Möbius Book
catherine lacey is the author of the five novels, most recently Biography of X, and a collection of stories. She has won a Whiting Award, was twice shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists.
Catherine Lacey
An exploration of faith built, lost and regained in other people, gods and things, from the critically acclaimed author of Biography of X.
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BIOGRAPHY OF X
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THE ANSWERS
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CERTAIN AMERICAN STATES
978 1 78378 221 5
NOBODY IS EVER MISSING
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PEW (PB)
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The Möbius Book is an inventive and unique memoir that contains both fiction (‘Shadow’) and non-fiction (‘These Days’). In ’Shadow’, a woman arrives at her friend’s door and their nightlong conversation encompasses both their relationships and the ruptures in their lives and in those around them. ‘These Days’ is an accounting of aftermath – the aftermath of a relationship, the aftermath of a childhood love of God, the aftermath of a sense of being.
Together, the two parts explore the circular and constant process of losing and regaining faith – spiritual faith, faith in other people, faith in institutions, even faith in faith.
Praise for Biography of X:
‘A dazzling novel… Masterfully complex’ Sunday Times
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Second Skin
Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink and Deviant Desire
Anastasiia Fedorova
A taboo-busting tour through different sexual fetishes and the communities they give rise to, that asks: do we have the courage to express these desires unapologetically?
In 21st-century commodity culture, we are all intimately involved with objects: we covet a Birkin; we keep trainers box-fresh. We are, in a sense, all fetishists. And this desire isn’t so different from its more subversive expressions. Second Skin is an invitation into the radical, vibrant world of sexual fetishists, offering a tour through the different materials, objects and power dynamics commonly fetishised – from latex and leather, to medical gloves and the gimp mask – unpacking their histories and expressive potential, while deftly collapsing what we take to be ‘normal’ and what we deem ‘taboo’.
anastasiia fedorova is a writer, curator and fetishist. She writes about art and queer culture and has collaborated with kink and fetish institutions, including the UK Leather and Fetish Archive. Second Skin is her first book.
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The house creaked as if cracking its knuckles. Then there was a long silence, broken by the owl outside, followed by more silence. The night curled up inside the farmhouse like a small beast, and shadows moseyed through, footless. Each corner had its own deep, heavy cavernous blackness. The room where Bernadeta slept was doleful. The sitting room was lugubrious. The stairs were like a well. The entrance was sinister.
The kitchen was a wolf’s throat. Bottomless.
The walls, the hearth, the window, the table, the chairs, the sink, couldn’t be seen. As if they weren’t there.
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
Irene Solà
Translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem
The atmospheric new novel from the author of the prize-winning When I Sing, Mountains Dance.
Nestled among rugged mountains, in a remote part of Catalunya, a place frequented by wolf hunters, bandits, ghosts, beasts and demons, is an old farmhouse inhabited by women. And these women, and more, are getting ready for a party today…
A lyrical and fearlessly imaginative novel that explores the duality of light and darkness, life and death, oblivion and memory, the real and the fabulous.
Praise for When I Sing, Mountains Dance:
‘An act of revolutionary revitalisation’ Ali Smith
‘Wonderful…Timeless and unique’ Mariana Enriquez
‘Like nothing I’ve read before’ C Pam Zhang
irene sol À is widely regarded as the most significant young Catalan writer. Her novel When I Sing, Mountains Dance won the prestigious Anagrama Prize and has been translated into six languages.
mara faye lethem is an award-winning translator and author.
The first time the authorities came to the house the adults were all at work. The older boy, Zan, was left in charge. At 13, he was a capable teenager, but he wasn’t as mindful about unfamiliar visitors approaching the house. By the time he and his brother realized what was happening, there were men pushing their way through the front door. ‘Get the baby,’ Zan yelled at his younger brother. The 10-year-old, Dong, quickly scooped up the startled Fangfang under his arm.
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove
Barbara Demick
The extraordinary story of Chinese twins separated when one is seized by the authorities and adopted in America, by the Samuel Johnson-winning journalist who reunited them as young adults.
In 2000, under the one-child policy, a Chinese woman gave birth to twins in a bamboo grove, trying to avoid detection because she already had two children. Two years later, an American couple adopted a Chinese toddler they thought had been abandoned. A rich portrait of China’s history and culture, the onechild policy and the rise of international adoption, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove tells the gripping story of the separated twins, their fates in China and the USA, and Barbara Demick’s role in reuniting them, against the odds.
Praise for Eat the Buddha: ‘Outstanding…compelling’ Financial Times
Powerful…the richness of this book lies in its nuance as much as its extraordinary detail’ Observer
barbara demick won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nothing to Envy, which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize ‘Winner of Winners’ Award in 2023. She is also the author of Eat the Buddha, which was longlisted for the Orwell Prize.
The History of My Sexuality
Tobi
Lakmaker Translated from the Dutch by Kristen Gehrman
A frank, funny, exuberant account of life as a twentysomething in Amsterdam, charting the freedoms and complications of coming out and going it alone.
‘Instantly engaging... No subject is out of bounds for the book’s enjoyably zinger-packed candour’ Daily Mail
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tobi lakmaker was born in 1994 and lives in Amsterdam. The History of My Sexuality is his first book.
kristen gehrman has translated the work of Dola de Jong and Lize Spit, among others.
Splinters A Memoir
Leslie Jamison
From the New York Times-bestselling author: a riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage – an exploration of motherhood, art and new love.
‘Never less than gripping… A mother-daughter love story that reads like a classic’ Observer
‘Jamison’s prose pulls you in and propels you’ Spectator
leslie jamison is the author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams, among other works.
Han Kang
Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith
Han Kang’s most enduring works, reissued in a striking new livery, to coincide with the publication of her new novel.
The Vegetarian
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize
An exhilarating, unsettling modern classic about patriarchy and rebellion, eroticism and the body, and one woman’s desire for another life.
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‘She is simply my favourite living writer to read, and think with, and see the world with’ Max Porter
Human Acts
A riveting, poetic and unrelentingly powerful work charting the Gwangju Uprising – a pivotal, violent event that paved the way to South Korea’s democratisation – and how its ramifications echo down the years.
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‘A writer like no other. In a few lines, she seems to traverse the entirety of human experience’ Katie Kitamura
The White Book
Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize
A stunning meditation on the colour white; about light, about death and about ritual.
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The Lodgers
Holly Pester
A dark comedy about lodgings, lovers, and mother-daughter bonds that falter across time and tenancies.
‘A psychological horror for Generation Rent’ Stylist
‘Funny, nightmarish… as sharp as a knife’ Guardian
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holly pester is a poet and writer. She is the author of Comic Timing, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize.
Ours
Phillip B. Williams
A spellbinding magical realist novel of rebellion and redemption, and of a Black community finding freedom in America’s darkest days.
‘Bold, ambitious… An epic folk tale of Black American emancipation… Engrossing’ Guardian
‘Beautifully written and ambitious… Expansive, original’ Brit Bennett
phillip b . williams is a prize-winning poet. Ours is his first novel.
Jenny Erpenbeck
Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
Visitation
‘Extraordinarily strong’ Michel Faber
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The Old Child and The Book of Words
‘Eerily brilliant’ Independent
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New editions of the works of Jenny Erpenbeck, winner of the International Booker Prize 2024.
Go, Went, Gone
‘Vital… Compelling and timely’ Sally Rooney
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The End of Days
Winner of the Independent Prize For Foreign Fiction
‘Hypnotically involving’ Independent
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Strange Bodies
A Story of Loss and Desire
Tom de Freston
A deeply moving love letter from an artist to his wife as they struggle with the loss of multiple pregnancies, exploring how powerful bonds transform as lovers become family.
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‘Unlike anything I’ve read before… A profound and generous book about life’s fundamentals… written in beautiful, poetic, polymathic prose’ Lucy Jones
tom de freston is a visual artist, the author of Wreck, and the co-creator of Julia and the Shark.
All Before Me
A Search for Belonging in Wordsworth’s Lake District
Esther Rutter
An intimate, personal exploration of the emotional and restorative power of the Lake District landscape and its poets.
‘[A] revivifying blend of memoir, literary history and travelogue… Alive with fascinating episodes and potted histories’ Observer
esther rutter is the author of This Golden Fleece. She lives in Fife.
Clear
Carys Davies
A wondrous tale of bonds forged when two men are pitted against each other on a remote island during the Highland Clearances, from the prize-winning author of West. 1843. Ivar leads a life of quiet isolation as the sole occupant of a remote Scottish island, until he finds John Ferguson unconscious on the beach. An impoverished church minister, John has been sent to evict Ivar and turn the island into grazing land for sheep. Unaware of his intentions, Ivar takes him into his home.
‘The sheer beauty of Clear – with its perfect sentences, its austere tenderness, and its quiet sense of disquiet – feels timeless… A masterful, discreetly sublime book’ Hernan Diaz
‘Wonderfully humane and moving’ Clare Chambers
carys davies is the author of West, which was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, and The Mission House.
is the author of The Way to the Sea and creator of the Shedunnit podcast. Her criticism appears in the Guardian and on BBC R4.
A Body Made of Glass A History
of Hypochondria
Caroline Crampton
A fascinating and revelatory cultural history of hypochondria, from Hippocrates to wellness influencers – chosen as a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.
Framed by Crampton’s own experience of surviving a serious illness only to find herself beset by deep anxiety about her health, A Body Made of Glass is a landmark book about one of the least understood but most widespread medical conditions and how our understanding of it has evolved over the centuries.
‘Essential reading’ Lucy Worsley
‘Lucid, broad in scope, full of nuanced reflection’ Guardian
‘Fascinating and intelligent’ Observer, ‘Book of the Week’
‘Masterful... The writing is beautiful… a profound work’ Dr Gwen Adshead
caroline crampton
My First Book
Honor Levy
Startling, provocative stories that grapple with the online reality we all inhabit, where clicks, codes and memes shape identities, personas and reputations.
‘These aren’t stories so much as an attitude’ Observer
‘Genuinely new’ Sunday Times
honor levy is a writer from California. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker and in New York Tyrant.
The Flitting
Ben Masters
A richly layered, nuanced and deeply moving memoir about how butterflies become the vital connection between a son and his dying father.
‘A dance and a dazzle of a book’ Robert Macfarlane
‘A heartfelt and moving memoir of fathers and fritillaries, bereavement and brimstones, and the solace and wonder to be found in the natural world’ Patrick Barkham
ben masters is a writer and an academic.
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Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
The International Bestseller
‘Exhilaratingly weird and funny... Unsettling and totally unpredictable’
Sally Rooney
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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.
Negroland
Margo Jefferson
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize
‘Masterful… endlessly impressive and important’ Independent
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Train Dreams
Denis Johnson
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
‘A work of extraordinary power and consummate skill... A masterpiece’ Observer
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The Bridegroom Was a Dog
Yoko Tawada Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani
A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man, from the prize-winning author of The Last Children of Tokyo.
‘Her masterpiece’ New York Times
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‘Brilliant, shimmering strangeness’ Rivka Galchen
yoko tawada is the National Book Award-winning author of The Last Children of Tokyo. margaret mitsutani is a translator of Yoko Tawada and the Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburō Ōe.
The Bullet
A story of Breakdown, Family and Institutional Failure
Tom Lee
A powerful and deeply personal exploration of a breakdown, of familial illness and the legacies of the UK psychiatric asylum system.
‘Tom Lee is an enthralling storyteller and this is an outstanding book’ Chris Power
tom lee is the author of The Alarming Palsy of James Orr and Greenfly.
River of Shadows
Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
Rebecca Solnit
A fascinating biography of Eadweard Muybridge, whose pioneering work in motion picture projection ushered in a period of technological innovation.
‘A panoramic vision of cultural change’ New York Times
‘Extraordinary’ Sunday Times
‘A book of powerful originality’ Daily Telegraph
A Paradise Built in Hell
The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Rebecca Solnit
A landmark investigation into how communities respond to disasters, and what we can learn from these displays of altruism and generosity in the face of adversity.
‘An eye-opening account of how much hope and solidarity emerges in the face of sudden disaster’ David Wallace-Wells
rebecca solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including Orwell’s Roses and Men Explain Things to Me.
BIOGRAPHY
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garth risk hallberg is the author of City on Fire, which was a New York Times and international bestseller, and A Field Guide to the North American Family.
The Second Coming Garth
Risk Hallberg
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, addiction, redemption and connection.
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. Believing he’s the only one who can save her, he returns to New York with a gift: the whole of his life, its hard-won triumphs and harrowing mistakes.
‘A sprawling, aching, ultimately hopeful account of a father’s love for a daughter and a daughter’s defiance of that love… Not only transformative but triumphant’ Joshua Ferris
‘The scope and ambition are reminiscent of Jonathan Franzen’s novels’ New York Times
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The Third Love
Hiromi Kawakami Translated from Japanese by Ted Goossen
From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, a novel that moves between Japan past and present to tell a time-bending story about desire and destiny.
Praise for Hiromi Kawakami’s writing:
‘Enchanting, moving and funny in equal measure’ Stylist
‘Beguiling and beautiful’ The Times
hiromi kawakami is an award-winning Japanese writer, whose fiction includes Strange Weather in Tokyo.
Cross
Austin Duffy
A masterful tale of betrayal and violence in a tight-knit community in Northern Ireland during the 1990s ceasefire of the Troubles, from the Irish Times-bestselling author.
‘A thrillingly tense read... a novel of riveting clarity and international relevance for our turbulent times’ Claire Kilroy
‘A tremendous novel, powerful and compelling’ William Boyd
austin duffy is the author of The Night Interns, which was an Irish Times bestseller.
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granta magazine editions
granta magazine editions is a paperback original series of exceptional literary voices, published by Granta magazine.
The first three titles are works of literary fiction in translation that were originally published in extract form in the magazine. Judith Hermann’s We Would Have Told Each Other Everything and Leif Randt’s Allegro Pastel appeared in Granta 165: Deutschland, while Shuang Xuetao’s Hunter features in Granta 169: China.
We Would Have Told Each
Other Everything
Judith Hermann
Translated from the German by Katy Derbyshire
In a series of three interconnected stories, Judith Hermann weaves together themes of psychology and friendship, unconventional childhoods, summers on the North German seashore and the act of writing itself. This work of subtle, perceptive autofiction asks how dependable memory can be, and how closely one’s dreams can come to reality.
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Allegro Pastel
Leif Randt
Translated from the German by Peter Kuras
A vivid, ironic and blisteringly contemporary account of millennial love in Frankfurt and Berlin. Tanja and Jerome are navigating a long-distance relationship in a world of constant communication and emotional hyper-reflection. This is love in the post-therapeutic age, written with crackling insight, dry humour, and deep emotional intelligence.
Hunter
Shuang Xuetao
Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang
These stories of deceptive, brutal realism play with myth and history, offering a vision of ordinary life in China with a magic realist turn. Filled with dark humour and written with a tinge of noir, this collection shows why Shuang Xuetao is the most highly celebrated young writer working in China today.
FICTION £12. 99 May B-format 198 × 129mm flapped PB 288pp
All territories US, serial and audio rights 978 1 73853 622 1
FICTION £12. 99 June B-format 198 × 129mm flapped PB 208pp All territories US, serial and audio rights 978 1 73853 624 5
Granta 170: Winners
Edited by Thomas Meaney
We live in a world of competition which is supposed to improve our lives. Competition in political life is the hallmark of a democratic society. Competition in the marketplace is meant to drive down prices and improve quality. The metaphors of sports – champions, offence, drive and above all winning – now permeate every corner of society. Entrepreneurs call themselves ‘hidden champions’, political scientists speak of ‘competitive authoritarianism’, and everybody is told they need to be a winner.
In the winter issue of Granta we look at the theme of ‘winning’ through sport, politics and art. The art of winning turns out to be hard to master. Articles include Nico Walker on the storied Colorado college football star-coach Deion Sanders, Charles Glass on Imran Khan, the winner of the Pakistani election (now in prison), and much more.
GRANTA 170
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Granta 171
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.
‘Rain’ by Colin Barrett and ‘The Room-Service Waiter’ by Tom Crewe were both winners of the 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction.
‘Theories of Care’ by Sophie Mackintosh won the 2024 Pushcart Prize.
‘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 171
£14.99 April 210 x 145mm PB 224pp All territories 978 1 90988 972 9
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