January –June 2026
sarah clegg has a PhD in ancient history from the University of Cambridge. Her first book, Woman's Lore, was shortlisted for the HWA NonFiction Crown. She is a former bookseller and now works in publishing.
The Dead of Winter
The Demons, Witches and Ghosts of Christmas
Sarah Clegg
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
Discover the dark side of Christmas in this fascinating exploration of the strange folk tales and arcane traditions that still haunt winter and the festive season to this day.
Beneath the jollity and bright enchantment of the festive season, there lurks a darker mood. Here, Sarah Clegg takes us on a journey through some lesser-known Christmas traditions, from English mummers’ plays and Austrian Krampus runs, to modern pagan rituals at Stonehenge and St Lucy’s night in Finland.
‘A fascinating, menacing miscellany’ Malcolm Gaskill
‘Excellent… both thought-provoking and filled with amusing asides and quips’ Sarah Bakewell, Guardian
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Facing the Bridge
Yoko Tawada
Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani
Three stunning stories that float between cultures, histories, identities and the imagination, by a prize-winning author.
An African boy kidnapped to Europe and a Japanese exchange student live in different times but are followed by the same shadow. A young professional tourist is lured to Vietnam by a mysterious postcard. On the Canary Islands, a translator battles a banana grove and a series of Saint Georges. In these captivating tales, Yoko Tawada proves herself once again to be the grande dame of Japanese literature.
‘A blisteringly imaginative writer who could not care less about following expectations… The uncertainty is thrilling’ Guardian
‘Tawada disrupts our perception and reveals the terror and beauty of our world as we get lost in it, and regain our footing through reading her novels’ Kit Fan
yoko tawada 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.
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SUGGESTED IN THE STARS
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SCATTERED ALL OVER THE EARTH
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THE BRIDEGROOM WAS A DOG
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MEMOIRS OF A POLAR BEAR
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THE LAST CHILDREN OF TOKYO
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THE NAKED EYE
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rebecca perry is the author of On Trampolining, as well as two fulllength poetry collections –Beauty/Beauty and Stone Fruit – and four pamphlets.
May We Feed the King
Rebecca Perry
Dancing between the lives of a reclusive curator and a hesitant monarch, this debut novel by a T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet is a beguiling meditation on what makes a king ‘great’ and a life meaningful.
She is a curator, who spends her time dressing the rooms of historic buildings. But in the lush private quarters of a medieval palace, she finds herself so transfixed by the reign of an almost-forgotten king that the edges of her life begin to blur.
He is a reluctant ruler – rushed to the throne after the untimely deaths of his older brothers – and he resists the crown. Until, one day, he disappears.
‘May We Feed the King floored me with the precision of its emotional insights and eccentric view of history-as-narrative’ A. K. Blakemore
Opening Night
Sara Baume
An award-winning writer charts the contours of her growing friendship with an American artist in exile in this exquisitely illustrated memoir about the power of art.
In a pop-up exhibition in rural West Cork, Sara Baume came across a painting that so intrigued her she befriended the artist, Mollie Douthit. Sara and Mollie started to meet every month, and as she fell under the spell of Mollie’s paintings, Sara began to write about them – and soon found herself squabbling with complex ideas, about community and nationality, about love and pain and the power of art.
‘A writer of outstanding grace and style. She writes beyond the time we live in’ Colum McCann
‘Baume’s writing is near faultless: instinctively balanced, precise and often surprising’ Melissa Harrison
‘A writer touched by greatness’ Joseph O’Connor
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sara baume is the author of the novels
Spill Simmer Falter
Wither, A Line Made by Walking and Seven Steeples, and the non-fiction work handiwork. She has won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, the Rooney Prize, the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award and an Irish Book Award. In 2023 she was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. She lives in West Cork, Ireland.
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fred pearce is an award-winning journalist who has reported from eightyseven countries and written fourteen books on environment and development issues.
Despite it All A Handbook for Climate Hopefuls
Fred
Pearce
Seven reasons to feel a bit less gloomy about the future of the planet in a short, energising book.
Over four decades, Fred Pearce has been reporting from the frontline of climate change and environmental recovery, and what he has seen has given him reason for (cautious) hope. Here we learn how nature is fighting back, the population bomb has been defused, and ancient wisdom and modern technology can both offer solutions.
Praise for A Trillion Trees:
‘Essential reading for the twenty-first century’ Ben Rawlence
‘If you care about the future of the planet, you have to read this book’ Cal Flyn, The Times
Mare
Emily Haworth-Booth
Winner of the Mslexia First Novel Competition, this is a tender, funny and life-affirming love story between a woman and a horse.
In the wake of life-altering news, a woman hears about a mare who needs looking after part-time. It sounds like an ideal arrangement. Something to care for, without getting in too deep. But as affection grows into obsession, she must confront what it means to love a being who does not belong to her.
‘Captivating and unique. A novel I had no idea I was yearning for until I started to read it’
Sophie Hannah
‘Incredible, wonderfully weird and thoughtprovoking’ Natasha Onwuemezi
an illustrator, graphic novelist and author of three books for children, including The King Who Banned the Dark, which was shortlisted for the Waterstones’ Children’s Book Prize and Independent Bookshop Week Book Award.
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Wein the 2020s live in a world that would be unimaginable and unbelievable to people sixty or seventy years earlier, a world that has changed bit by bit, in ways so vast and so varied, in so many spheres of everyday life, transforming our understanding of gender, sexuality, race, nature, the history of this continent, the importance of equality, that it has hardly been described.
The Beginning Comes After the End
Notes on a World in Change
Rebecca Solnit
A vital and optimistic call to arms for our turbulent times, from the author of Men Explain Things to Me.
In this powerful new work, Solnit maps the extraordinary revolution of ideas and rights that we’ve experienced over the last fifty years and which has profoundly changed our world – despite the best efforts of the old world to fight back. A culmination of years of activism and deep contemplation of our current political moment, The Beginning Comes After the End urgently reminds us that the power to change the world is within our reach.
Praise for Rebecca Solnit:
‘Solnit urges us to imagine a radically different future… A brilliant writer’ Guardian
‘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.
is a poet, critic, novelist, artist and performer, and the author of over twenty books, including Humiliation and The Queen’s Throat
My Lover, the Rabbi
Wayne Koestenbaum
A lavish, lascivious novel, charting the psychosexual relationship between a rabbi and the man devoted to him – marking the first major UK publication of an acclaimed stylist.
To the untrained eye, the rabbi is far from desirable. But, to one man, he is the object of obsession. Their relationship is tender but volatile, and their intimacy brews and curdles. Until, in an effort to sustain it, our narrator goes on an increasingly urgent quest to better understand his mercurial lover – one that threatens to upturn the lives of both men.
Praise for Wayne Koestenbaum’s previous work:
‘One of the most original and relentlessly obsessed cultural spies writing today. His alarmingly focused attention to detail goes beyond lunacy into hilarious and brilliant clarity’ John Waters
‘A writer and thinker for all time’ Maggie Nelson
wayne koestenbaum
Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun
Mónica Ojeda
Translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker
At a shamanic music festival high in the Andes, a young woman searches for her father, in this wild and incantatory breakout novel from a National Book Award finalist.
Noa and her best friend, Nicole, are headed for Solar Noise: an eight-day festival nestled on the side of a volcano, and a world of mysticism and underground music. But soon after their arrival, Noa appears possessed and begins searching for her father who abandoned her when she was young. And as the party spills into the Incan festival of the sun, the girls’ desire for belonging burns, incandescent, collapsing the thin membrane separating life from death.
‘Mónica Ojeda is a shining black sun on the birth chart of contemporary terror’ Fernanda Melchor
‘I read Mónica Ojeda with fear and fascination… So poetic, so disturbing and brutal’ Samanta Schweblin
mónica ojeda is the author of four novels, including Jawbone, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in Translation.
sarah booker has translated work by Mónica Ojeda, Gabriela Ponce and Cristina Rivera Garza.
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Here’swhat you will do, I instructed myself in a voice that seemed to originate from outside my head, from the chair a few feet to my right. You will go to Thomas’s and say: I was thinking this evening we could just catch up, talk off the record about how we’d like to approach the interview, and then tomorrow I’ll come over late morning and we can record when we’re prepared and fresh.
I took four deliberate breaths. This sounded plausible.
Transcription
Ben Lerner
From the acclaimed author of Leaving the Atocha Station and The Topeka School, a major new novel about technology, memory and connection.
The narrator of Transcription is to conduct what will be the final published interview with his ninetyyear-old mentor, only to drop his smartphone in the hotel sink, leaving him with no recording device and a strange reluctance to admit what has happened. What follows is a brilliant meditation on technology and memory, fatherhood and the truth of fiction.
Praise for The Topeka School:
‘The best novel yet by the most talented writer of his generation’
New York Times
‘The future of the novel is here’ Sally Rooney
‘One of the best writers working today…
Everything feels breezy and effortless despite Lerner’s unbridled intellect. What can’t he do?
Sunday Times
ben lerner is the author of three internationally acclaimed novels, Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04 and The Topeka School, and the poetry collections No Art and The Lights.
The Wonderful World that Almost Was
andrew durbin ’s writing has appeared in the Believer, the Boston Review, the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, the Paris Review and elsewhere. He lives in London and is the editor-in-chief of Frieze magazine.
A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek
Andrew Durbin
A glorious dual biography of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek that explores queerness, beauty, what brings people together and what drives them apart.
Peter Hujar, whose photographs defined downtown New York in the 1970s and 1980s, and sculptor and painter Paul Thek met in 1956. The Wonderful World That Almost Was follows the development of their intense connection – and romance – from their first encounter in Miami in the mid-1950s to the painful end of their friendship and features the large circle of friends and artists they shared, from Andy Warhol and Fran Lebowitz to Susan Sontag.
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The Village on the Edge of the World
Writing and Surviving Ceaușescu’s Romania
Herta Müller
Translated from German by Kate McNaughton
A remarkably candid and discomfiting interview with the Nobel Prize laureate, reflecting on a life defined by the brutality of Ceaușescu’s regime.
Herta Müller’s story unspools against the tumultuous history of Romania in the latter half of the twentieth century. A stirring reflection on cultural history, memory and trauma: on the friendships that buckled under the weight of fear and paranoia; on the experience of being surveilled and interrogated; and on the unique blend of fear and tedium borne through life under totalitarianism.
‘Herta Müller is a passionate artist of protest’ Irish Times
‘Müller is a writer who releases great emotional power through a highly sophisticated, imagestudded, and often expressionist prose’ New York Review of Books
herta müller is the author of The Land of Green Plums and The Appointment, among other works. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009.
kate mcnaughton is a translator, documentary filmmaker and author. Her debut novel, How I Lose You, was published in 2018.
is a writer and translator, as well as the author of reports for UN agencies. His two previous novels are The Water-Breather and The Incomplete Husband.
Other People’s Children
Ben Faccini
A story of a modern family and a wartime secret that ripples down through the generations from a writer of exceptional talent.
Tommaso is caught between the competing demands of his job, his girlfriend and her two unruly sons, and his eccentric grandmother, Alma. As Alma grows increasingly troubled by unsettling memories, Tommaso realises that the secrets she has guarded about her past risk upending his own precariously balanced life.
Praise for Ben Faccini’s writing:
‘A remarkable novel about a family under pressure... rich, vivid, moving’ Guardian
‘Totally original and mesmerising... Faccini is a brilliant writer and not a sentence in this wonderful book seems out of place’ Literary Review
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The White Desert
Luis López Carrasco
Translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey
The story of a millennial couple facing life on an increasingly fragile planet, and a stirring reflection on our place in the cosmos – for fans of Martin MacInnes and Olga Ravn.
Life on earth is fading to a whisper. Faced with a stalled future of economic precarity and mounting authoritariansim, Carlos and Aitana must make a decision, monumental and world-altering, about what they are prepared to sacrifice to cleave to life. Haunting and elegiac, this award-winning debut is an inventive portrait of what life on earth today looks like when taken at a distance, and of our shared fate among the stars.
‘Imagines a very near future in which – without nostalgia, but in a beautiful melancholic tone – we haven’t forgotten who we were and who we are... A formally daring, fun, endearing, witty, stimulating novel’ Juan Pablo Villalobos
is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. His latest film, The Year of Discovery, won the Goya Award for best documentary film. The White Desert is his first novel.
rosalind harvey ’s translations include Guadalupe Nettel’s Still Born, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, and work by Juan Pablo Villalobos and Elvira Navarro.
luis lópez carrasco
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Flamboyance
The Art of Burning Brightly
jack parlett is a writer, poet and scholar. He is the author of Fire Island: A Queer History. His reviews and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Literary Hub, BBC Culture and elsewhere.
Jack Parlett
An effervescent exploration of the concept of flamboyance that weaves compelling personal memoir and cultural criticism.
From the orange flowers of Dungeness to a Parisian gay bar, and populated by such figures as Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, Elton John and Amy Winehouse, Jack Parlett’s new book argues for the value of flamboyance as a creative force that offers an empowering way of being in the world – one that both marks and transcends difference.
Praise for Fire Island:
‘A beautiful, beguiling journey to the ultimate queer utopia… A fascinating, throbbing history’ Olivia Laing
‘The zingy tale of one magnetic place… Clued-up but insatiably thirsty, poignant, packed with literary intrigue’ Jeremy Atherton Lin
Sail Away Land
Ben Pester
A collection of dizzying stories that feel both undeniably real and disarmingly uncanny, from the acclaimed author of The Expansion Project.
In this uncommon and unsettling collection, the characters go to Sail Away Land – the space we might visit when we’re no longer alive.
Like brilliant and strange anxiety dreams in prose, the stories in Sail Away Land are full of temporal weirdness, life and non-being, psychological acuity, imagination and wit, all while being effortlessly, seductively readable and incredibly moving.
‘Pester is a genius of capturing the vicissitudes of contemporary life’ Luke Kennard
‘Pester inhabits familiar spaces only to skewer them with a signature style and humour’ Irenosen Okojie
ben pester is the author of the short story collection Am I in the Right Place? and the novel The Expansion Project. He lives in London.
Beartooth
Callan Wink
A tale of two brothers in desperate straits and one highstakes poaching trip in Yellowstone from a Dylan Thomas Prize-shortlisted author.
‘Ferocious, propulsive, elemental… This is vital writing, a novel to be celebrated’ Colin Walsh
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‘An emotionally rich and compelling piece of storytelling’ Guardian
callan wink is the author of Dog Run Moon, which was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and August
Every One Still Here
Liadan Ní Chuinn
From a stunning new voice in Irish literature, a searing and powerful debut collection of singularly brilliant stories.
‘Deserves to be considered among the best Irish books of the 21st century… A brilliant and remarkable book’ Irish Times
‘A phenomenal collection… A formidable debut by an astonishing new voice’ Lucy Caldwell
liadan ní chuinn was born in the north of Ireland in 1998. Every One Still Here is their first book.
Under a Metal Sky
A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonder
Philip Marsden
A revelatory journey from the tin mines of Cornwall to the gold mountains of Georgia in search of the substances which have both shaped our imagination and imperilled our very existence.
‘A luminously rich exploration of the mineral wonderland beneath our feet’ Colin Thubron
philip marsden is the award-winning author of Rising Ground, among other works.
The Naked Eye
Yoko Tawada
Translated from the Japanese 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.
‘Every Yoko Tawada novel pulls the ground out from under us, but gives new senses in return’ Madeleine Thien
yoko tawada ’s writing has won many awards, including the Akutagawa Prize and the National Book Award.
susan bernofsky is the prize-winning translator of Franz Kafka and other writers.
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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.
Vanishing World
Sayaka Murata
Translated from
the
Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori
From the author of the international bestseller Convenience Store Woman, a conventiondefying and taboo-busting novel, and a radically reimagined vision of sex, family and society.
All of Amane’s friends were conceived by artificial insemination, but her parents committed the ultimate taboo: they procreated. She does her best to fit in, but Amane can’t help but wonder what sex and marriage are for. And when she goes to live in an experimental town in which the family unit does not exist, it threatens to push her to breaking point.
‘Publishers will continue to seek out imitations of [Murata’s] vision – but why bother, when the real thing is so good?’ Financial Times
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‘In the imagination of Sayaka Murata, nothing seems to be off limits... Like The Handmaid’s Tale on acid’ New York Times
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A Room Above a Shop
Anthony Shapland
An Observer Best Debut of 2025, the atmospheric and poignant story of a clandestine relationship between two men in late 1980s Wales.
‘Memorable, striking, dark, beautiful’ Observer
‘One of the most beautiful and original gay novels I have a read in a long time’ Neil Blackmore
anthony shapland is a writer and artist, who was selected for the Hay Writers at Work programme in 2023.
No More Normal
Why We Need to Rethink Mental Health and Diagnosis
Dr Alastair Santhouse
From a leading consultant neuropsychiatrist, a timely book about the rise of diagnoses in mental health conditions and disorders and what it means for individuals and society.
‘Thoughtful, insightful and compassionate’ Dr Gwen Adshead
‘A provocative, accessible and engaging reflection on the cultural moment that we are living through’ Irish Times
dr alastair santhouse is a consultant neuropsychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital in London.
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madeleine thien is the author of Do
Not Say We Have Nothing, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize.
The Book of Records
Madeleine Thien
The critically acclaimed new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author, which leaps across centuries past and future as if different eras were separated by only a door.
Lina and her ailing father have taken refuge at an enclave called the Sea, a mysterious and shapeshifting building where pasts and futures collide. Here, Lina befriends her three unusual neighbours, and in their stories of struggle, migration and faith, builds a picture of the role of fate in history and the way that ideas powerfully shape the world.
‘Intricate and dazzlingly expansive... a novel with as much to offer the heart as the mind’ Observer
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‘Plunges the reader into thrilling, perilous leaps back and forth across time... Thien’s dazzling historical somersault doubles as a plea for humanity’ Financial Times
‘Rapturous... a rich and beautiful novel’ Guardian
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The Möbius Book
Catherine Lacey
A genre-bending story about breaking – both of the heart and literary form itself – from the critically acclaimed author of Biography of X.
‘Memoir collides with invention in a brilliant interrogation of art, faith and relationships’ Sarah Moss, Guardian
‘A page-turner in both directions... I was absolutely spellbound’ Leslie Jamison
catherine lacey is the author of Biography of X, which was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, among other works.
Absence Issa Quincy
A stunning, atmospheric debut novel about memory, death and the many ghosts that inhabit the present.
‘Haunting... A meditation on time, meaning and forgetfulness’ Financial Times
‘A dizzying chain of densely nested episodes circling themes of trauma and remembrance... Always absorbing’ Daily Mail
issa quincy ’s work has appeared in the London Magazine and the Atlantic Absence is his debut novel.
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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove
barbara demick is the author of Nothing to Envy, which won the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize, Eat the Buddha and Besieged.
China’s Stolen Children and a Story of Separated Twins
Barbara Demick
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
The story of separated Chinese twins, with one twin seized by the authorities and adopted into America, by the BBC Samuel Johnson Prizewinning journalist who reunited them as young adults.
This gripping story of separated twins, and their respective fates, paints a rich portrait of China’s history and culture, while asking questions about the roots, impact and consequences of the one-child policy and the narratives we hold about the quality of lives lived in the East and the West.
‘The very best kind of nonfiction, and Demick is its peerless practitioner… gripping’ Observer
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‘Demick writes with such humanity and literary grace that this envelops you like a novel in which every word is true’ Evan Osnos
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Jesus’ Son
Denis Johnson
A visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts and lost souls, and a classic of 20th-century American literature – reissued with a striking new cover.
‘The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humour like Denis Johnson’s’ Jonathan Franzen
‘Intense, vicious, and beautiful’ Mary Gaitskill
denis johnson is the author of six novels, three collections of poetry, and one book of reportage.
Second Skin
Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink and Deviant Desire
Anastasiia Fedorova
A tour through sexual fetishes – from latex and leather to medical gear and the gimp mask – that brings these subversive desires out of the dungeon and into the light.
‘A thoughtful and thought-provoking treatise that articulates the uncharted experience of female fetishism and destigmatises fetish’ Financial Times
anastasiia fedorova is a writer, curator and fetishist. Second Skin is her first book.
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nicola barker is the author of fourteen novels – including Darkmans, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize –and two short story collections.
TonyInterruptor
Nicola Barker
The first full-length novel since the Goldsmiths Prize-winning H(a)ppy, from one of Britain’s most brilliant, audacious and inventive novelists.
TonyInterruptor seems to feel an unquenchable urge to disrupt and interrupt live cultural events. But who is he, and what does he want? A small group of characters determines to find out the answers to these questions after just such a public interruption goes viral, reverberating through the online world and upending their lives.
‘A joyous and exhilarating ride which pushes you through the rabbit warren of art, literature and the human soul’ Camilla Grudova
‘A hilarious, important novel… Virtuosic’ Isabel Waidner
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I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
Irene Solà
An earthy, bewitching and ferocious new novel by the author of When I Sing, Mountains Dance.
‘A fecund and daring book’ Catherine Lacey
‘Makes most contemporary realist fiction feel narrow and timid’ Guardian
irene solà is a writer and visual artist. She is the author of When I Sing, Mountains Dance and The Dams. mara faye lethem is the award-winning translator of Pol Guasch, among others.
The Expansion Project
Ben Pester
A dizzying, haunted satire of the late-capitalist workplace in which nothing is quite what it seems.
‘A tour de force in surrealist comedy... Fresh, sublime and eerie. [Pester] could be described, in part, as a comic descendant of J.G. Ballard’ Camilla Grudova, Sunday Telegraph
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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GRAN TA SHORTS
GRANTA SHORTS is a collection of some of our most renowned novellas, presented in a sharp new series design. Each title is a masterpiece in miniature, offering a bite-sized introduction to the Granta list.
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction ‘An intimate, uncompromising anatomy of love and revulsion between husband and wife, child and parents, from a writer of singular vision’ Guardian
‘Well versed in the gritty truths of a hard drinker’s life… Sometimes poetic, sometimes terrible, sometimes funny, often all three at once… Ablutions has achieved something remarkable’ New York Times
Gwendoline Riley
Patrick deWitt
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
‘A work of strange, slow-motion, underwater intensity. Put your ear to the page and you can almost hear the ocean whisper’ Independent
‘Sciascia is in the very first rank of Italian writers. His books are both lucid and mysterious… they move with the pace of thrillers, and have the resonance of poetry’ Spectator
Herta Müller reissues
Two of the Nobel Prize Laureate’s most enduring novels, charting the terrors of Ceaușescu’s regime – reissued in a new series look.
The Land of Green Plums
‘A powerful autobiographical account, The Land of Green Plums... will linger on in the mind… A marvel’ Guardian
The Appointment
‘A tour de force in storytelling, which manages to turn the barest of prose into poetry... Chilling’ Independent
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‘Herta Müller is a passionate artist of protest’ Irish Times
granta magazine editions
A new title from granta magazine editions : A first-hand account of a migrant-worker’s journey along the factory floors of southern China.
Adrift in the South
Xiao Hai
Translated from the Chinese by Tony Hao
When Xiao Hai turned fifteen, his family paid a vocationalschool teacher 1,000 yuan to find him a factory job in Shenzhen. So began a decade spent moving between the garment mills and electronics factories of China’s fastestgrowing southern cities. Adrift in the South is a first-hand account of a life spent dodging corrupt officials and abusive employers, working long hours in brutal conditions and sleeping in overcrowded dormitories. Xiao Hai gives voice to a generation of migrant workers searching for survival, meaning and dignity in a country undergoing dramatic economic and political transformation.
A landmark work from China’s migrant workers’ literature movement, this memoir offers a rare, working-class perspective on the human cost of the country’s economic rise.
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