Granta Books Catalogue - January to June 2024

Born in Hiroshima in 1983, hiroko oyamada ’s fiction has won several prizes, including the Shinchō Prize for New Writers for The Factory.

david boyd has translated fiction by Izumi Suzuki, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, and others. With Sam Bett, he has translated three novels by Mieko Kawakami.

The Factory

Hiroko Oyamada

From the author of Weasels in the Attic, here is a startling modern fable about the allconsuming world of work.

Beyond the town, there is the factory. Beyond the factory, there is nothing.

Within the sprawling industrial complex, three employees are assigned their tasks. Before long, their days take on a strange logic and momentum, and the margins of reality seem to be dissolving, to the point where they struggle to answer the most basic question: what am I doing here?

‘Strangely chilling’ New York Times

‘A stirring portrait of modern work-life culture’

TIME

Translated from Japanese by David Boyd

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There Is No Blue

Martha Baillie

From a celebrated Canadian author, a profound meditation on grief and the impact of mental illness on a family.

‘This strange, unsettling memoir of outer life and inner life and their bizarre twining captures the author’s identity by way of her mother’s death, her sister’s failing battle with mental illness, and the mysterious figure of her father. It combines anguished guilt, deep tenderness, and bemused affection in highly evocative, often disturbing prose. Its brave honesty is amplified by a persistent lyricism; its undercurrent of fear is uplifted by a surprising, resilient hopefulness. It is both a plea for exoneration and an act of exoneration, an authentic meditation on the terrible difficulty of being human’

Andrew Solomon

‘[A] stunning memoir, intense and meticulous in its observations of family life… I couldn’t put it down’ Lisa Appignanesi

martha

is the author of several novels, and the book she co-authored with her sister, Christina Baillie, Sister Language. She lives in Toronto.

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At the heart of a public health crisis that has been building for at least a century remain questions of what those with diabetes should eat: for those willing to make necessary dietary sacrifices to maximize their health and wellbeing, is there an ideal diet, a pattern of eating that would maximize longevity and minimize the burden of the disease?

Rethinking Diabetes

What Science Reveals about Diet, Insulin and Successful Treatments

Gary Taubes

An eye-opening investigation into the history of diabetes research and treatment, arguing for a diet-based alternative to medical treatments, from the journalist and bestselling author of The Case Against Sugar.

Over 400 million people around the world have been diagnosed with diabetes. Sufferers today are advised to eat a normal diet regulated by the use of insulin, with the likelihood their condition will deteriorate steadily over time. This groundbreaking and deeply researched history reimagines diabetes care with diet at its centre, questioning the established wisdom that may have enabled the current epidemic.

‘In lucid prose… Rethinking Diabetes convincingly makes the case for a new paradigm for the prevention and treatment of this common disorder’ Abraham Verghese

‘A fascinating deep dive into the history of diabetes and how new treatment paradigms may be game-changing’ Dr Jason Fung, author of The Obesity Code

gary taubes is the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers The Case for Keto and The Case Against Sugar, and is an awardwinning science and health journalist.

tobi lakmaker was born in 1994 and lives in Amsterdam. He writes columns for De Groene Amsterdammer and LINDA.meiden The History of My Sexuality is his first book.

kristen gehrman has translated the work of Dola de Jong and Lize Spit, among others.

The History of My Sexuality

Tobi Lakmaker

A sensation in Europe on publication: an effervescent account of life as a twentysomething in Amsterdam that charts the freedom and complications of going it alone.

Meet Sofie. It seems she’s been wrong about a few things. First, she thought she was into men: wrong. Then she met Frida and thought she was set for life: wrong again. Turns out facing up to everything she thought she had sussed requires a lot of trial and error.

The History of My Sexuality is a frank, funny, exuberant journey through the highs and lows of your 20s, and making peace with getting it wrong again and again.

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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 woman returns to the small town she grew up in, to a sublet flat overlooking her mother’s house. She is on edge, anticipating the arrival of a mysterious flatmate, and starts imagining who might be living in the house she has just left. Subtly political, this timely debut novel examines a life lived in other people’s spaces.

Praise for Comic Timing

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‘[Pester] is adept at finding moments of supposed normality which are anything but... [Her] voice is by turns bleak, bathetic, Beckettian’ Guardian

holly pester is a poet and writer. She is the author of Comic Timing, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize.

© Eleanor Vonne Brown

Over a century before the boy who was shot dead at the intersection of First and Bank stood up in his own blood and spoke his name as if it were just given to him, there was a town named Ours, founded by a mysterious and fearsome woman right where the boy had been shot. But perhaps this story begins centuries before then, at the muddy waters of the Apalachicola River, or further back on a ship named the Divider carrying those misunderstood to be the future of slavery to the Western World.

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Ours

Phillip B. Williams

An epic novel of rebellion, redemption, power and humanity, and of a community striving to live ordinary lives of love and pain in America’s darkest days.

In the mid-1800s, a powerful conjure woman named Saint annihilates plantations in the South to rescue the enslaved. She brings those she has freed to a haven: a town, magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours. But a powerful being discovers the town and threatens to undermine everything Saint has worked hard to keep alive.

Ours is a stunning exploration of the possibilities and limitations of love and freedom.

‘A beautifully written and ambitious epic… Williams crafts an expansive, original world filled with characters who linger long after the final page’ Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half

Ours is a radical re-creation of our pasts… A jewel of a novel, a deeply felt exploration of the strengthening ties and broken cords of kith and kin under the weight of complicated histories’

Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of Libertie

phillip b . williams is from Chicago, Illinois, and is the prize-winning author of the poetry collections Mutiny and Thief in the Interior. He currently teaches at New York University and the Randolph College lowresidency MFA. Ours is his first novel.

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leslie jamison is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams, the collection of essays Make It Scream, Make It Burn and the novel The Gin Closet. She lives in Brooklyn.

Splinters A Memoir

Leslie

Jamison

The riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage – an exploration of motherhood, art and new love, from the New York Times bestselling author.

In this blend of memoir and criticism, Leslie Jamison turns her attention to some of the most intimate relationships of her life – her consuming love for her young daughter, and a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope – and examines what it means for a woman to be many things at once: a mother, an artist, a teacher, a lover.

‘Wry, hilarious and utterly unputdownable’

Mary Karr

‘Riveting… A page-turner about divorce, a romance about parenthood, a mystery of self after splintering’ Melissa Febos

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Three Births

K Patrick

A groundbreaking debut poetry collection from one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, the author of Mrs S, interrogating queer love against a backdrop of ecological thinking.

A kaleidoscopic pleasure-garden, Three Births explores concepts of the erotic and romantic, refracted as though through a prism, towards lovers, states, objects, landscapes and systems. A marriage and a subsequent divorce, nature writing and 20th-century literary figures are all manoeuvred with agility, delicacy, humour and moving detail in K’s subversive and distinct poetic, which zaps with syntactic-synaptic wildness.

Praise for K Patrick:

‘[A] subtle, scintillating novel… the intimacy and suppleness of K Patrick’s writing mark it out from the stripped-clean default of much contemporary fiction’ TLS

k patrick is a poet and novelist. They are the author of Mrs S, and a Granta Best of Young British Novelist and Observer Best New Novelist 2023.

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Paleand shining in the cool sunlight, from a distance the naked man resembled an enormous jellyfish.

He was terribly bruised and cut all over and Ivar could see a few small stones in his open mouth, which made him think he must be dead, but when he touched his cheek he felt his breath against his wrist.

He stood up, looked out across the water, and closed his eyes, his ears full of the cries of curious and hungry gulls trembling on invisible currents.

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. On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet isolation until an impoverished church minister is sent to evict him and turn the land into grazing for sheep. A tender and crystalline study of the distances and connections between us, Clear is a marvel of storytelling, an exquisite short novel by a master of the form.

‘The sheer beauty of Clear... a poignant, profound depiction of both solitude and connection... sublime’ Hernan Diaz

‘An exquisite, hopeful masterpiece... Magical and humane, and absolutely beautiful’ Rachel Joyce

‘Intriguing and inventive [with] an unexpectedly joyous ending that hints at... new ideas of what a family might be. Not to be missed’ Annie Proulx

carys davies ’s debut novel, West, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, and winner of the Wales Book of the Year for Fiction. Her second novel, The Mission House, was the 2020 Sunday Times Novel of the Year.

Thena small miracle happened. A tiny piece of ordinary magic that, like stones falling into a river, altered my course. I was called to an interview in Grasmere. Two hundred years earlier, as the home of the celebrated Romantic poet William and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth, Dove Cottage had been the centre of a new cultural epoch that would forever shape the way we respond to our own experiences. This is what I needed: new ways to see myself and the world. They say that you only need to make a handful of good decisions in your life. Applying to come to Grasmere was one of mine.

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 landscape and the poets of the Lake District.

In her twenties, Esther Rutter suffered an acute mental breakdown while living in Japan. After being sectioned, her recovery began when she took a job in the Lake District at Dove Cottage, the home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. All Before Me is her moving account of the way that the spirit of place can heal and inspire, and make possible all that lies before us.

Praise for This Golden Fleece:

‘Captures the magic of making in literary lyricism that entices you to read on and on’ Clare Hunter, author of Threads of Life

‘You don’t have to be a knitter to enjoy this wondrous book’ BBC Countryfile

esther rutter is the author of This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain’s Knitted History and a Research Fellow specialising in landscapes and cultural identity at the University of St Andrews.

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Born in Hiroshima in 1983, hiroko oyamada ’s fiction has won several prizes, including the Akutagawa Prize for The Hole.

david boyd has translated fiction by Izumi Suzuki, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, and others. With Sam Bett, he has translated three novels by Mieko Kawakami.

Hiroko Oyamada The Hole

A woman moves to live with her in-laws in the Japanese countryside in this surreal novel from the author of Weasels in the Attic.

When Asa and her husband relocate, she does her best to adjust to their new rural lives. But as the long, hot summer stretches on, her days take a bizarre turn. She meets an in-law she had heard nothing about, encounters an elusive hairy creature, and one day finds herself in a hole – a hole that seems to have been made specifically for her.

‘A great book’ Patti Smith

‘A haunting and transformative work of fiction’

Laura van den Berg

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A Body Made of Glass

A History of Hypochondria

Caroline Crampton

A fascinating and revelatory cultural history of hypochondria, from Hippocrates to wellness influencers – for fans of Andrew Solomon and Siddhartha Mukherjee.

‘There is a twilight zone between illness and health, and that’s where I dwell’

Framed by Caroline Crampton’s own experience of surviving a serious illness only to find herself beset by almost constant anxiety about her health, A Body Made of Glass is a landmark book about one of the least understood but most widespread medical conditions.

Praise for To the Sea:

‘An affectionate portrait of an often neglected landscape’ Sunday Times

‘A lyrical meditation on the meaning of the Thames’ Literary Review

caroline crampton is the author of The Way to the Sea and the creator of the Shedunnit podcast. Her criticism appears in the Guardian and on BBC R4.

Izzy says she wants to take Greta Thunberg’s virginity. I tell her that one day I’m going to fuck Barron Trump. Kayla has a nosebleed. Taylor licks it up. We talk like Alvin and the Chipmunks. Our words flutter around the basement like anime butterflies on CIA crack cocaine. Nothing is funny. Everything is funny. It’s all so good. It’s all so bad. We don’t even have our learners permits. No one can blow our minds. We’re best friends forever and forever will be over soon.

My First Book

Honor Levy

A provocative, exhilarating Generation Z voice, grappling with the online reality we all inhabit, where clicks, codes and memes shape identities, personas and reputations.

The internet: originally a place to visit and explore, now a place to pay bills, shop, fall in love, and come of age. In her electric debut, Honor Levy contextualizes Gen-Z – a generation desperate to discern what matters in a world whose reality is overloaded with niche signs and meanings.

By turns ambitious, profound and surreal, My First Book walks the line between imagination and confession, and confirms Honor Levy as a groundbreaking literary star.

Praise for Honor Levy:

‘The writer capturing the warp-speed mania of online… One of the most intriguing talents in the literary world’ The Face

honor levy is a writer from California. She graduated from Bennington College in 2020. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker and New York Tyrant and has been anthologised in Flash Fiction America.

tom de freston is a visual artist and the author of Wreck: A Story of Art and Survival. With his wife, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, he is the co-creator of Julia and the Shark, winner of the Waterstones Children’s Gift of the Year.

Strange Bodies

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.

In 2020, artist Tom de Freston’s wife, Kiran, miscarried twins, and then lost six more pregnancies before the birth of their daughter. De Freston sought to make sense of the experience in his art, and through the work of other artists, interrogating the male relationship to women’s bodies. Strange Bodies is an intimate, authentic, and powerfully moving account of a loving relationship coping with the struggle and pain of making new life.

Praise for Wreck:

‘Extraordinary... devastating’ Daisy Johnson

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‘I’ve never read a book like Wreck before. It pulled me in, engulfed me, cast me up, left me beached, left me wrecked. Brilliant’ Robert Macfarlane

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The Bullet

Tom Lee

A powerful and personal exploration of mental health, and an indelible account of living with a fracturing mind and the legacy of familial illness.

By the time Tom Lee had a family of his own he thought he might have dodged the bullet of the mental health issues that had marked the lives of his parents. But then, suddenly and expectedly, he has a crisis of his own and finds himself returning to his past for clues.

Praise for Tom Lee’s fiction:

‘A delicately creeping nightmare’

Ross Raisin

‘A read-in-one-sitting fable of considerable power and skill’

Stuart Evers

tom lee is the author of The Alarming Palsy of James Orr, a novel, and Greenfly, a collection of short stories.

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hiromi kawakami is an award-winning Japanese writer, whose fiction includes Strange Weather in Tokyo, The Nakano Thrift Shop, The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino and People From My Neighbourhood

ted goossen is Professor of Japanese Literature at York University in Toronto and has translated many writers including Haruki Murakami.

Hiromi Kawakami The

Third Love

Translated from the 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.

Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One day, she runs into her old friend Mr Takaoka, who offers an unusual escape: he teaches her the trick of living inside her dreams – dreams that transport her back through history and towards her future love.

Praise for Hiromi Kawakami’s writing:

‘Enchanting, moving and funny in equal measure’ Stylist

‘Beguiling and beautiful’ The Times

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The Flitting

Ben Masters

A richly layered, nuanced and moving memoir about how butterflies became the vital connection between a son and his dying father.

In March 2020, Ben Masters’ father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He was never happier than when outdoors, and spent his free time chasing butterflies. Despite his attempts to share this passion with his son, Ben was resistant. But as his father spent his final months confined to the house, unable for the first summer of his life to follow the butterfly cycle, Ben became his connection to the outside world.

Blending memoir with nature writing, literary biography and pop-cultural history, this is an absorbing account of loss and grief and how moments of trauma can trigger poignant transformations.

ben masters is a writer and an academic. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement and the Literary Review.

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The End of Nightwork

Aidan Cottrell-Boyce

A man’s rare ageing disorder and his obsession with ecological disaster threaten to disrupt his (mostly) happy marriage.

‘Rich in provocative and timely ideas, yet seductively readable… There’s a rare originality here, and a willingness to take risks, that promises great things’ Guardian

aidan cottrell - boyce ’s writing has appeared in the White Review and Granta. This is his first novel.

Recollections of My Non-Existence

Rebecca Solnit

The landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me, in the new series design for Rebecca Solnit.

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‘As clear and galvanizing as it is beautiful’ Florence Welch

‘She writes with the clarity of a seer and the scope of a visionary’ Spectator

rebecca solnit is the author of Orwell’s Roses and Wanderlust, among many other books.

Sarn Helen

A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future

Tom Bullough

With illustrations by Jackie Morris

An immersive and evocative journey through Wales and a revelatory meditation within the context of the climate emergency.

‘With the pacing and economy of a novelist, Bullough conjures up a history of Wales both intimate and epic’ Guardian

‘A thrilling journey’ Horatio Clare

tom bullough is the author of four novels, including Addlands. jackie morris is an award-winning illustrator, artist and author.

Chrysalis

Anna Metcalfe

A compelling and utterly contemporary novel about one woman’s metamorphosis into an online phenomenon, from one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.

‘A thrilling look at how we spin silk around ourselves by watching the world on our screens’ New York Times

‘A wonderful, painful, funny novel… beautiful and cruel’ Avni Doshi

anna metcalfe is one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award.

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History Keeps Me Awake at Night

Christy Edwall

Flickering between Mexico and London, this smart, funny novel follows a woman losing herself in the search for what is missing.

‘[Edwall’s] writing fizzes with smart observations on modern life’ Daily Mail

christy edwall ’s writing has appeared in Granta.com, Stinging Fly, the Southern Review and the TLS.

Still Pictures

On Photography and Memory

Janet Malcolm

With an introduction by Ian Frazier and an afterword by Anne Malcolm

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America’s most innovative biographer turns her unblinking gaze upon her own life in this final book, a unique memoir in snapshots.

‘Fascinating… A bittersweet reminder of Malcolm’s extraordinary talents’ Telegraph

janet malcolm was a staff writer for the New Yorker, and the author of several critically acclaimed books. She died in 2021.

How to Think Like a Philosopher

Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking

Julian Baggini

An essential guide to clear thinking and how it can improve our lives, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks.

‘A big breath of fresh air and a bracing detox for our beleaguered, battered brains’ Derren Brown

The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten And

99+ Other Thought Experiments

Julian Baggini

A collection of short, accessible philosophical quandaries to stimulate, challenge and entertain – now reissued with 10 brand new thought experiments.

‘[A] smorgasbord of some of the most baffling, weird and occasionally downright creepy scenarios ever envisaged... Enjoy these mind-boggling tales from the outer limit of thought’ Guardian

julian baggini ’s many books include the Sunday Times bestseller How the World Thinks and The Godless Gospel.

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Eleanor Catton Birnam

Wood

The Sunday Times bestseller, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction: a propulsive, brilliantly constructed literary thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries.

A landslide on New Zealand’s South Island has caused a sizeable farm to be abandoned. It presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective. But they hadn’t figured on American billionaire Robert Lemoine getting involved. Can they trust him? And, as their ideals are tested, can they trust each other?

‘As good as it gets… A beautifully textured work – what a treat’ Stephen King

‘A brilliant pageturner from a dazzling writer’ Mail on Sunday

‘Electric: a spectacular book… It’s literally, physically breathtaking’ Katherine Rundell

eleanor catton is the Booker Prizewinning author of The Luminaries, The Rehearsal and Birnam Wood As a screenwriter, she adapted The Luminaries for television, and Jane Austen’s Emma for feature film.

Murdo Macleod

The Luminaries

Eleanor Catton

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2013

An astonishing, epic story of promise, deceit and desperation in New Zealand’s gold rush, now reissued.

‘A dazzling feat of a novel’ Observer

‘A modern masterpiece’ Stylist

The Rehearsal

Eleanor Catton

A high-school sex scandal sets the stage for an exhilarating reflection on sexuality, performance, and the flare and tumult of adolescence, in Catton’s dazzlingly assured, provocative debut, now reissued.

‘Astonishing… smart, playful and self-possessed, it has the glitter and mystery of the true literary original’ Guardian

‘Wonderful… Truly exciting’ Kate Atkinson

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Beautiful Trauma

A Journey of Discovery in Science and Healing

Rebecca Fogg

An inspiring story of resilience in the wake of a freak accident, and a fascinating exploration of the science of trauma and recovery.

‘Frames healing as a dance of acceptance and readjustment, of effort and reward, as well as the exploration of new possibilities… an inspiration’ Gavin Francis

In 2008, rebecca fogg left New York and her career in financial services to move to London. This is her debut.

Biography of X

Catherine Lacey

A masterfully constructed counter-factual epic novel chronicling the life, times and secrets of a notorious artist.

‘Sly, brilliant, philosophically acute, bitingly funny, and a pure joy’

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Lauren Groff

‘A mighty work… This is a major novel and a notably audacious one’ New York Times

catherine lacey is the author of Pew, Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, and a short story collection, Certain American States.

Study for Obedience

Sarah Bernstein

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

A powerful, unsettling novel from one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.

Soon after the arrival of a young woman in a remote northern country, a series of unfortunate events occurs – collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a birthing ewe; a dog’s phantom pregnancy. It becomes clear that the locals suspect her of wrongdoing. And however diligently she toils in service of the community, she feels their growing hostility pressing at the edges of her brother’s property.

‘One of the year's best novels… Haunting’ Daily Telegraph

‘A masterly meditation on life as a survivor’ Observer

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‘Exhilarating’ The Times

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sarah bernstein is the author of The Coming Bad Days. In 2023, she was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.

‘[A] remarkable novel… Unsettling… Thrilling… Compelling’ Financial

© Alice Meikle

madeleine bunting ’s non-fiction books include Labours of Love, Love of Country and The Plot. She has also written two novels, Island Song and Ceremony of Innocence.

The Seaside

England’s Love Affair

Madeleine Bunting

A vivid journey around England’s great seaside resorts, exploring their history and current struggle, from the award-winning author of Love of Country.

Once thriving holiday destinations, many of England’s seaside towns now struggle with the deepest deprivation and ill health in the country. Journeying clockwise around England from Scarborough to Blackpool, Madeleine Bunting explores what has happened to the golden sands of childhood memory, and what these towns say about the character and political state of England today.

‘A deeply humane and insightful journey across the shifting sands of modern England’ Patrick Barkham

‘Bunting’s wonderful travelogue offers us a powerful – and deeply dispiriting – microcosm of the whole nation’ Observer

‘Ambitious, thorough and hugely readable’ Mail on Sunday

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Kairos

Jenny Erpenbeck

Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann

From the internationally acclaimed author, a story of love and betrayal set in Berlin before and after the fall of the Wall.

‘One of the bleakest and most beautiful novels I have ever read… invigorating all the way to the final page’ Guardian

jenny erpenbeck is the multi-award-winning author of numerous works, including Visitation.

Move Like Water

A Story of the Sea and Its Creatures

Hannah Stowe

With illustrations by the author

A beguiling and beautiful book about our human relationship with the sea and the creatures who inhabit it.

‘The book’s drenched with salt water. It fizzes, clicks, booms and screams. Tremendous’ Charles Foster

‘Exquisite in its intelligence’ Jay Griffiths

Born on the Pembrokeshire coast, hannah stowe is currently living in Dresden, researching her second book.

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michael hofmann is the translator of Joseph Roth and many other writers.

mark o ’ connell is the author of To Be a Machine (winner of the Wellcome Book Prize, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize) and Notes From an Apocalypse (longlisted for the Wainwright Prize).

A Thread of Violence

A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

Mark O’Connell

An instant bestseller in Ireland and lauded by critics in the UK and US, here is a gripping tale of a notorious crime, a political scandal and a literary dilemma.

The double murder committed in 1982 by Malcolm Macarthur, the wealthy heir to a small estate, remains one of the most shocking cases in Ireland’s history. When Mark O’Connell tracks Macarthur down and persuades him to talk, he is forced to consider: what does it mean to write about a murderer?

‘A beautifully wrought narrative that is at once frightening and thrilling. A masterly work’

John Banville

‘An exceptional piece of storytelling’ Sunday Times

‘A masterpiece… I admire it without reserve’ Observer

‘Superb and unforgettable’ Sally Rooney

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The Glutton

A. K. Blakemore

One man with an insatiable hunger: a novel of desire and destruction in revolutionary France, based on a true story, from the Desmond Elliott Prize-winning author of The Manningtree Witches.

The 18th century is drawing to a close, and unrest grips the heart of France. Tarare is born into a life of slender means. When a sudden act of violence leaves him with a ferocious appetite, he begins a journey towards Paris that will lead him into the heart of the Revolution.

‘An embarrassment of riches. A sensory assault fit to slap any reader awake with its gorgeous glut of baroque prose and wise, poised lessons on life, pleasure, class, desire, and love’

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

a . k . blakemore ’s debut novel, The Manningtree Witches, won the Desmond Elliott Prize and was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. FICTION £9.99 July B format 198 × 129mm PB 416pp

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