amy bloom is the author of White Houses, Lucky Us, Away and Love Invents Us, as well as three collections of short stories and a memoir, In Love. She is the director of the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan University.
I’ll Be Right Here
Amy Bloom
An epic, intimate novel about an unconventional and irresistible family, journeying from 1940s Paris to 21st-century New York, from the New York Times bestselling author of White Houses.
Emigrating alone to New York from Paris after World War II, a young girl, Gazala, befriends two spirited sisters, Anne and Alma. When Gazala’s beloved brother Samir joins her in Manhattan, this inseparable foursome forms the beating heart of what will become an untraditional multigenerational family. Compassionate, funny and full of warmth, I’ll Be Right Here embraces the complexity and richness of humanity and the mysterious ways we evolve as we love – and the ways we hope to be loved in return.
Praise for Amy Bloom:
‘Amy Bloom is one of the greats’ Charlotte Mendelson
‘Bloom’s writing excels… in her lovingly-crafted protagonists… Then there’s her dark, impish wit, sharp as the tip of Cupid’s arrow’ Independent
Autocorrect
Etgar Keret
Translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen with additional translations by Sondra Silverston
A wildly inventive new collection of tales from the international master of surreal short fiction.
In Etgar Keret’s universe, all things are possible. A man can take a yoga class that genuinely transforms his life. A son has the chance to redo a fateful exchange with his father. An alien can offer a guided tour of the destroyed earth. And an angry squirrel can wreck an entire wedding.
Praise for Etgar Keret:
‘Etgar Keret is a genius’ New York Times
‘Brilliant... completely unlike any other writer I know’ Salman Rushdie
‘A grandmaster of the incongruous’ Financial Times
etgar keret is a leading voice in Israeli literature and cinema whose story collections, including Fly Already (2019), have been published in fifty languages.
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liadan ní chuinn was born in the north of Ireland in 1998. Every One Still Here is their first book.
Every One Still Here
Liadan Ní Chuinn
From a stunning new voice in Irish literature, a searing and powerful debut collection of singularly brilliant and distinctive stories.
A young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus. A bride-to-be prays to St Valentine’s bones. Bouquets are found all over a museum. Teenagers gather to dissect a human body. Brimming with compassion and thrumming with energy, these stories are scrupulous in their attention to detail, epic in their scope. In this bravura debut collection, Liadan Ní Chuinn delivers a consummate blend of the personal and the political.
‘Here’s a writer who knows how to swerve gracefully from the expected... Truly exciting’ Lisa McInerney
‘A phenomenal writer, with such a striking, distinctive style... New and startling’ Danny Denton
‘An extraordinary book by an extraordinary author’ Thomas Morris
The Expansion Project
Ben Pester
A hugely original, dizzying, haunted satire of the late-capitalist workplace in which nothing is quite what it seems.
Tom Crowley, a mid-level employee, loses his daughter during ‘bring your daughter to work day’. When no sign of her is found, it transpires she was never there. Refusing to accept this, Tom continues to search for her, losing himself in the maze of corridors and impossible multi-dimensional spaces of the curiously expanding Capmeadow Business Park.
Praise for Ben Pester:
‘Pester inhabits familiar spaces only to skewer them with a signature style and humour’ Irenosen Okojie
‘Weird… and wonderful’ Guardian
‘Funny, sad, sharp and beautifully disarming... Absorbing and wonderfully strange’ Wendy Erskine
ben pester is the author of the short story collection Am I in the Right Place? He lives in London. The Expansion Project is his first novel.
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Caitlin Mogridge
Theinterruptor had a good voice, a strong voice. It was fundamentally classless but with the slightest suggestion of Northern grit. It had a pleasing timbre: low, grave, sincere. And the line was delivered in such a way that it seemed at once spontaneous but considered, indignant but measured. It was heartfelt. There was... somehow or other, there was soul.
Many people couldn’t (or didn’t) hear what the interruptor was saying because they were so intent on the performance. His words were just so much sound to them.
TonyInterruptor
Nicola Barker
The new novel from one of the UK’s most audacious, inventive and hilarious novelists, author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Darkmans and the Goldsmiths Prize-winning H(a)ppy.
TonyInterruptor seems to feel an unquenchable urge to disrupt live cultural events. But who is he and what does he want?
As profound as it is exuberant, TonyInterruptor is a comic masterpiece that traces the aftermath of a public interruption as it reverberates through the online world and its characters’ lives, upending everything in its wake and posing fundamental questions about authenticity, art, love and truth.
‘A hilarious, important novel… Wild in a virtuosic way and, needless to say, hugely intelligent’ Isabel Waidner
‘TonyInterruptor is a joyous and exhilarating ride which pushes you through the rabbit warren of art, literature and the human soul. I always feel so vividly alive reading her work’ Camilla Grudova
nicola barker is the author of thirteen novels and two story collections. She has been nominated for the Booker Prize three times and has won the IMPAC Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize, among other awards. She was born in Ely and lives in Kent.
The 1960s in Maps
Edited by Gordon Kerr
Illustrated by Claire Rollet
A book that celebrates and illuminates the most iconic decade of the 20th century – through fascinating, eye-opening maps.
Which countries were under a dictatorship? Where did the Beatles perform live outside the UK? Where were atomic bombs tested? Which nations boycotted the 1966 World Cup? What was the route of the Hippie Trail?
The 1960s was a momentous decade whose legacy is colourful and enduring. Here is a book that maps those years – through their culture, their politics, their technological and scientific advances, their conflicts and their natural disasters. What emerges is a fresh and revealing portrait of a decade which saw enormous social change and seemed to offer boundless potential, but gradually showed its darker side.
gordon kerr worked in publishing and bookselling before becoming a full-time writer. He has written a number of short histories and is passionate about the 1960s.
claire rollet is a map and architecture illustration specialist. Her time living in London sparked her love for drawing buildings and a fascination with their social history.
Thedead man is in his bed, a blanket covering him; the widow is leaning over the deathbed and lifting the blanket to look at his face, which we cannot see. It isn’t just the mystery of death barely revealed; we also have the feeling that she is doing this behind the backs of the guests at the wake, that this is a secret moment with her husband, that she is going to kiss him.
Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave
My Journeys to Cemeteries
Mariana Enriquez
Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
An extraordinary, unsettling, gothic journey through the world’s cemeteries – from Montparnasse to the Jewish cemetery in Prague, from Highgate to the hidden Aboriginal burial ground on Rottnest Island.
In Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave, Mariana Enriquez blends journalistic rigour and her fascination with the macabre as we encounter the graves of famous figures, mournful sculptures, traces of voodoo, catacombs, skeletons, vampires, ghosts and an array of legends and stories. Her personal journey weaves through haunting narratives, transforming burial grounds into spaces of reflection, obsession and emotional discovery between the living and the dead.
Praise for Mariana Enriquez:
‘Enriquez, when she does just enough, is pretty much unbeatable’ A. K. Blakemore
‘Mariana Enriquez’s stories are smoky, carnal and dazzling’ Lauren Groff
mariana enri Q ue Z is the award-winning author of several books including The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
megan mcdo W ell is the award-winning translator of Samanta Schweblin and Alejandro Zambra, among others.
andre W hussey is a native of Liverpool who now lives in Paris. He is a historian of French culture and the author of Paris: The Secret History and The French Intifada
Fractured France
A Journey Through a Divided Nation
Andrew Hussey
An authoritative and revelatory portrait of a nation riven by class, by politics and by the legacy of the past – from the author of The French Intifada.
The old ideals that formed the French Republic have crumbled to a battleground of competing ideologies and cultures. Here, Andrew Hussey travels from the post-industrial north to the badlands of the south, speaking to commentators, writers and politicians, talking with locals and walking the streets, to trace the social, political and economic fault-lines that are shaping the new France.
Praise for The French Intifada:
‘Fascinating and hugely readable’ Sunday Times ‘Must Read’
‘[Hussey] blends colourful narrative history with lively reportage and analysis’ Financial Times
The Book of Memory
Or, How to Live Forever
Mark Rowlands
A revelatory, intimate exploration of the way memory works, how it shapes who we are, what is lost and what is remembered.
Memory isn’t all that we think it is. From episodic memories like shining islands in dark water and forgotten memories that underpin our personalities to the memories authored by others that we carry within us, philosopher Mark Rowlands explores how memory makes us who we are. Drawing on the latest research and a range of thinkers, The Book of Memory is a mesmerising journey into how memories are made, lost and remembered, with important consequences for how we understand ourselves.
Praise for The Happiness of Dogs:
‘A profound and funny examination of what it means to be fulfilled’ Tim Dowling, Guardian
‘[Offers] fresh and radical answers to some of the oldest questions in ethics. A must read’ John Gray
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mark ro W lands is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling The Philosopher and the Wolf and, most recently, The Happiness of Dogs. He is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami.
THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE WOLF
978 1 78378 457 8
RUNNING WITH THE PACK
978 1 84708 263 3
A GOOD LIFE
978 1 84708 950 2
THE HAPPINESS OF DOGS
978 1 80351 033 0
rose george is the author of A Life Removed, The Big Necessity, Deep Sea and Foreign Going and Nine Pints
Every Last Fish
What Fish Do for Us and What We Do to Them
Rose George
A fresh and fascinating take on fish, the fishing industry and our shared future, from one of our most intrepid and entertaining non-fiction writers.
For many of us, the only time we think about fish is when they’re on our plate. Here, Rose George takes us on a revelatory journey around the industry that supports our appetite, from the local chippy and traditional fishing boats to industrial trawlers and vast fish farms, meeting with fisheries observers and experts in fish sentience along the way.
Praise for Nine Pints:
‘One of the best non-fiction writers working today’ Guardian
‘I will read anything George writes… she brings a no-nonsense briskness on the page; a forensic zeal; a potent moral sensibility’ New York Times
Pulse
Cynan Jones
A collection of viscerally powerful short stories in which man is pitted against nature, against circumstance, and against himself – from the award-winning author of The Dig and Cove.
A man heads out alone into the snow to hunt down a bear. A father tries to make something go right for the son he no longer lives with. A fierce storm threatens to bring a tree down on the powerlines near a couple’s house. Fear, tension and resolve course through these arresting and indelible stories.
Praise for Stillicide:
‘Exciting and essential’ Financial Times
‘Close to perfect’ Guardian
‘Vividly convincing’ Sunday Times
cynan jones is a writer of stories, screenplays and short fiction whose work has been published in more than twenty countries. He is the author most recently of The Dig, Cove and Stillicide.
hiroko oyamada is the author of The Factory (winner of the Shincho Prize), The Hole (winner of the Akutagawa Prize) and Weasels in the Attic
david boyd is Associate Professor of Translation and Japanese Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
lucy north has translated writers including Taeko Kono, Hiromi Kawakami, Fumiko Enchi and Natsuko Imamura.
Garden
Hiroko Oyamada
Translated from Japanese by David Boyd and Lucy North
From the award-winning author of Weasels in the Attic and The Factory, a collection of strange and wonderful tales of humans, animals and plants, and some things in between.
Baboons chatter in the zoo. Tadpoles writhe in a pond. A gecko is stuck to the window. And ants are crawling everywhere. Nature runs wild and mysterious in this stunning collection of stories by Oyamada in which the everyday reality of the human world, with its social norms and familial ties, slides into something altogether more strange.
Praise for The Hole:
‘A great book’ Patti Smith
‘Surreal and mesmerising’ New York Times
Things That Disappear
Reflections and Memories
Jenny Erpenbeck
Translated from the German by Kurt Beals
From the 2024 winner of the International Booker Prize, a collection of short essays on the places, people, rituals and objects that slip into the realm of memory.
In this fascinating collection, Jenny Erpenbeck meditates on the disappearance and impermanence of things. Whether recalling the demolition of familiar places, the loss of a friendship or a change in social attitudes, Erpenbeck’s sharp intelligence, eye for telling detail and her nuanced perspective on her country’s history and her own writing life imbue these short pieces with lasting power.
‘The most profound, intelligent, humane and important writer of our times’ Neel Mukherjee
‘Fearless, playful, incisive. Erpenbeck is unique’ Rachel Seiffert
jenny erpenbeck is a writer of fiction and essays whose most recent novel, Kairos, won the International Booker Prize.
kurt beals is a translator and a professor at Washington University.
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previous titles
THE OLD CHILD AND THE BOOK OF WORDS
978 1 84627 676 7
VISITATION
978 1 80351 251 8
KAIROS
978 1 78378 613 8
NOT A NOVEL
978 1 78378 611 4
THE END OF DAYS
978 1 80351 252 5
GO, WENT, GONE
978 1 80351 253 2
yoko ta W ada is the author of several books including The Last Children of Tokyo, which won the National Book
Award under the title The Emissary.
margaret mitsutani is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Kenzaburō Ōe.
previous titles
SUGGESTED IN THE STARS
978 1 80351 101 6
SCATTERED ALL OVER THE EARTH
978 1 78378 912 2
THE BRIDEGROOM WAS A DOG
978 1 80351 133 7
MEMOIRS OF A POLAR BEAR
978 1 84627 632 3
THE LAST CHILDREN OF TOKYO
978 1 84627 670 5
THE NAKED EYE 978 1 80351 171 9
Archipelago of the Sun
Yoko Tawada
Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani
The final volume of the electric ‘Scattered All Over the Earth Trilogy’, from the prizewinning Japanese author.
In this concluding volume, intrepid Hiruko and her band of friends embark on a sea voyage in search of Hiruko’s lost island homeland – the Land of Sushi. The boat carrying the companions strikes east from Copenhagen across the Baltic Sea, but as they dock in coastal ports along the route, an array of mysterious characters boards their vessel.
Praise for the ‘Scattered All Over the Earth Trilogy’:
‘The absurdist sequel to her equally comic and outré bestseller Scattered All Over the Earth… Hugely enjoyable’ Financial Times
‘A weird and wonderful adventure’ New York Times
Bad Bad Girl
Gish Jen
Gish Jen reconstructs her mother’s traumatic childhood in pre-revolutionary Shanghai, and immigrant life in New York in an effort to understand – and forgive – her harshness.
Growing up in 1920s Shanghai, Gish Jen’s mother was told every day it was ‘no good for a girl be too smart’ – a silencing message she attempts to escape yet brings with her to New York. In this riveting portrayal of a Chinese woman desiring emancipation but also control, Gish Jen gives us a heartbreaking mother–daughter relationship, saved by writing.
Praise for Thank You, Mr Nixon:
‘Marvelous… Jen invites her readers to consider profound questions about history, ancestry and identity… In all her work, Jen locates the tensions between inherited and lived cultures’ New York Times
A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, gish jen has received numerous awards and fellowships and taught at Harvard, Brandeis and NYU Shanghai. Her work has been included in The Best American Short Stories five 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.
Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
‘A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. A classic for sure’ Claire Tomalin, Guardian
‘A wonderful evocation of Britain’s natural beauty and a reminder of our need to connect with the wilderness’ The Times
Funder
A Sunny Place for Shady People
Mariana Enriquez
Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
A deliciously diabolical collection of short stories from the International Booker Prizeshortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed.
In this spellbinding new volume, Mariana Enriquez writes about ordinary people, mostly women, whose lives are turned inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal and the supernatural. The stories invite us to face the horror of everyday atrocities, domestic violence, intergenerational trauma and feeling painfully uncomfortable in one’s own skin.
‘[Enriquez] is pretty much unbeatable’ Guardian
‘Addictive and full of life… Mariana Enriquez [is] one of the best modern practitioners of the form’ Observer
mariana enri Q ue Z is the award-winning author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, Things We Lost in the Fire and Our Share of Night.
megan mcdo W ell has translated Alejandro Zambra and Samanta Schweblin, among other writers.
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Rethinking Diabetes
gary taubes is an award-winning science and health journalist, and the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers The Case for Keto and The Case Against Sugar.
What Science Reveals about Diet, Insulin and Successful Treatments
Gary Taubes
From the bestselling author of The Case Against Sugar: an eye-opening investigation into the history of diabetes that rethinks the role of diet in treating it.
One in ten adults is likely to be diagnosed with diabetes in the UK by 2030, and over 400 million people around the world have been diagnosed with the disease. After two centuries of conflicting medical advice, Rethinking Diabetes reimagines diabetes care with diet at its centre, persuasively questioning the established wisdom that may have enabled the current epidemic.
‘[A] thought-provoking book [which] offers significant insights’ Siddhartha Mukherjee
‘Remarkable… of considerable interest to all persons with diabetes and clinicians and researchers in the field’ Dr Sanjiv Chopra, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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The Happiness of Dogs
Why the Unexamined Life Is Most Worth Living
Mark Rowlands
A groundbreaking exploration of how dogs experience the world and how they can help us understand ourselves better, from the bestselling author of The Philosopher and the Wolf.
While dogs live with enviable levels of joy, humans are burdened by anxiety. Drawing on his life lived with dogs, on the ideas of philosophers, and on the cutting-edge psychology of canine cognition, philosopher Mark Rowlands explores the way that dogs experience the world, and how they may have better answers to the meaning of life than we do.
‘[Written] with zest, humour and passion... This is a book everyone interested in animals and philosophy must read’ John Gray
mark ro W lands is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling The Philosopher and the Wolf. He is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami.
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No Canada or ANZ rights Translation, serial and audio rights
978 1 80351 033 0
The Watermark
sam mills is the author of The Quiddity of Will Self, along with three young adult novels, including the awardwinning Blackout, and a memoir, The Fragments of My Father.
Sam Mills
Two star-crossed lovers tumble between fictional worlds in this breathtakingly inventive 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 inside his novel-in-progress.
Now, the fledgling couple must try to find their way back home through a labyrinthine network of novels, journeying from Victorian Oxford to a utopian Manchester, a harsh Russian winter to an AI-dominated near future.
‘Virtuosic… It whirls you off on a… technicolour tumble through different eras and genres’ Guardian
‘Dazzlingly inventive’ Daily Mail
‘A novel of scope and ambition’ The Times
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How the World Eats
Where Our Food Comes From and Why It Matters
Julian Baggini
A definitive exploration of how we grow, make, buy and eat our food around the world, and a guide to building a food system fit for the 21st century, from the Sunday Times-bestselling author of How the World Thinks.
The need for a better understanding of how we feed ourselves has never been more urgent. While traditional approaches to providing food are often more in harmony with the natural environment. most of us rely on a complex global food network that is now contending with unprecedented challenges. Here, Julian Baggini delves into the best and worst food practices in an array of different societies, extracting essential principles to act as a guide to how we can eat better in the future.
‘Inspiring… insightful’ Pen Vogler
‘Baggini’s the most important thinker we’ve got on food in the UK’ Tim Hayward
THE PIG THAT WANTS TO BE EATEN
HOW THE WORLD THINKS
THE GODLESS
’s books include the Sunday Timesbestselling How the World Thinks. NON-FICTION
julian baggini
cohen is a psychoanalyst and the author of Not Working, The Private Life and How to Read Freud, among other titles.
All the Rage
Why We Feel Anger and How to Use It
Josh Cohen
A psychoanalyst’s ground-breaking exploration of the taboo emotion of anger, and its impact on our personal and political lives, from the acclaimed author of Not Working.
Anger is all around us, from personal spats to extremist divisions. It affects our bodies and can spark into violence. But what should we do with it, and can it ever be put to good use? All the Rage offers a new and original understanding of our anger, so we may better handle the rage within us.
‘Fascinating… unsettling but compelling reading’ Telegraph ‘Rather than hoping to eradicate anger, All the Rage invites us to learn from it… and to find better uses for it. Thoughtful, witty and compassionate’
Will Davies
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© Charlotte Speechley
Suggested in the Stars
Yoko Tawada
Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani
The weird and wonderful sequel to Scattered All Over the Earth, from the prize-winning Japanese author.
Hiruko, from the now-vanished archipelago ‘somewhere between China and Polynesia’, has been searching for someone who speaks her native language. She finally tracks down Susanoo, a sushi chef, but he has lost the power of speech. If Hiruko is ever to hear her mother tongue again, a sceptical aphasia specialist is her last hope.
‘Reading Yoko Tawada is an immensely fun and occasionally bewildering experience... A blisteringly imaginative writer’ Guardian
‘Chaos and cleverness combine so well to bewitch the reader’ Irish Times
‘A weird and wonderful adventure’ New York Times
yoko ta W ada is the author of several books including The Last Children of Tokyo, which won the National Book Award under the title The Emissary.
margaret mitsutani is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Kenzaburō Ōe.
FICTION £9.99 October B format 198 × 129mm PB 240pp
No Canada rights Serial rights 978 1 80351 101 6
previous titles
SCATTERED ALL OVER THE EARTH
978 1 78378 912 2
THE BRIDEGROOM WAS A DOG
978 1 80351 133 7
MEMOIRS OF A POLAR BEAR
978 1 84627 632 3
THE LAST CHILDREN OF TOKYO
978 1 84627 670 5
THE NAKED EYE
978 1 80351 171 9
In Writing
is a freelance writer and contributing editor at Grazia magazine. Since 2019, she has produced and hosted the podcast In Writing with Hattie Crisell.
Conversations on Inspiration, Perspiration and Creative Desperation
Hattie Crisell
Based on Hattie Crisell’s popular podcast, these intimate and frank conversations with some of our best-loved writers offer an inspiring glimpse into the creative process.
With contributions from James Acaster, Ayo`bámi Adébáyo`, Jesse Armstrong, Charlie Brooker, Wendy Cope, Geoff Dyer, John Lanchester, Sophie Mackintosh, Emily St. John Mandel, Liane Moriarty, David Nicholls, Graham Norton, Maggie O’Farrell, Kiley Reid, Jon Ronson, Michael Rosen, David Sedaris, Curtis Sittenfeld, Brandon Taylor, Meg Wolitzer and more.
‘Full of such inventive but also life-affirming ways of honing one’s craft’ Katy Hessel
‘A distillation of wisdom, an incitement to curiosity and an antidote to loneliness. Say hello to your new best writing buddy’ Toby Litt
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© Oliver Holms
Hiromi Kawakami
Translated from the Japanese by Allison
Markin Powell
Stylish reissues of three iconic titles from Hiromi Kawakami, one of Japan’s most renowned literary voices, to coincide with the paperback of The Third Love.
Strange Weather in Tokyo
‘Enchanting, moving and funny in equal measure, this compelling love story is expertly crafted against a backdrop of modern Japanese culture’ Stylist
The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino
‘Charming... beguiling and beautiful’ The Times FICTION £9.99 June 978 1 80351 315 7
The Nakano Thrift Store
‘The ever-readable, ebulliently imaginative Japanese novelist burst[s] the four small walls of Nakano-san’s bric-a-brac shop’ Monocle
FICTION £9.99 June 978 1 80351 316 4
Granta 172
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 172
£14.99 July 210 × 145mm PB 224pp All territories
978 1 90988 974 3
Granta 173: India
Edited by Thomas Meaney
India is familiar ground for Granta, which has devoted two classic issues to the country. It teems not only with literary developments in English, but a host of regional languages including Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi and Malayalam. In 2025, we return to the subcontinent for a closer examination of the world’s largest country by population.
The last ‘India’ issue was published on the cusp of the Modi era, which has now lasted more than a decade. 173 will feature articles on the Indian space program; border conflicts in Nagaland; a report from the BJP stronghold in Houston, TX; a letter from Kerala; as well as a meditation on the accelerating nationalism of the BJP and the idleness of the Congress party’s long seasons in power. Contributors will be drawn from India, celebrating a range of regions and languages, with a focus on Dalit authors, as opposed to the elite enclaves of Delhi and Mumbai and Kolkata, which – along with the diaspora – have dominated the cultural scene since the country’s founding.
© Gauri Gill. Untitled (15), from the series Acts of Appearance
2015
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