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What a list to be on! Very happy about this. @grantabooks.bsky.social @jasonarthur.bsky.social
Goldsmiths Prize@goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 10mo agoWe are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist. Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists! Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
The first story in this collection genuinely ruined my day and I mean that as a compliment
Granta Books@grantabooks.bsky.social · last yr.‘A properly exciting writer… one of the most powerful things I’ve read in recent years’ - Max Porter ‘Astonishing... It feels genuinely new’ - Sunday Times Every One Still Here is out today! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
It’s crazy how good this book is. I know it sounds OTT but it’s the arrival of a writer for all-time I think
Granta Books@grantabooks.bsky.social · last yr.‘A properly exciting writer… one of the most powerful things I’ve read in recent years’ - Max Porter ‘Astonishing... It feels genuinely new’ - Sunday Times Every One Still Here is out today! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
‘A properly exciting writer… one of the most powerful things I’ve read in recent years’ - Max Porter ‘Astonishing... It feels genuinely new’ - Sunday Times Every One Still Here is out today! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
‘Autocorrect isn’t so much a book as a library of tiny books, from an author who conveys as well as any I can think of just how much fun you can have with a short story’ - @questingvole.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Autocorrect by Etgar Keret review – endlessly inventive short stories
Alien spaceships, parallel worlds… the Israeli writer’s seventh collection is vast in reach, yet grounded in the bewildering absurdity of modern life
theguardian.com
3 really strong first short story collections from Irish writers pub. this year: Liadan Ní Chuinn, Every One Still Here @stingingfly.bsky.social & @grantabooks.bsky.social Dave Tynan, We Used to Dance Here @grantabooks.bsky.social Shane Tivenan, To Avenge a Dead Glacier @lilliputpress.bsky.social
Listen now to my chat on Radio 4's #TakeFourBooks with Madeleine Thien about her new, time-warping @grantabooks.bsky.social novel of war, exile and refugees, 'The Book of Records' - and her three influences, including the evergreen 'Invisible Cities' by Italo Calvino... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Waiting in line for eternity can be a colossal bore. Read 'Present Perfect', a hilarious take on protocols and shifting time in the afterlife, from Etgar Keret's new collection #Autocorrect. Out now from @grantabooks.bsky.social bookanista.com/present-perf...
Present perfect
Standing in line to enter the next world, a recently deceased hedge-fund analyst queries the protocol of the afterlife. From Autocorrect by Etgar Keret.
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The short stories in Dave Tynan’s first collection, ‘We Used to Dance Here’, are strong true painful loving stuff, with a fine line in comedy, in which worlds you might know but don’t find much in fiction are brought to life on the page. Published July @grantabooks.bsky.social.
our copy arrived faulty, half the book was upside down
Granta Books@grantabooks.bsky.social · last yr.Out today ➰ THE MÖBIUS BOOK by @catherinelacey.bsky.social A genre-hybrid work that is both non-fiction and fiction with no beginning and no ending. A story about a sudden, devastating break-up from one of America’s most inventive and daring writers working today. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Out today ➰ THE MÖBIUS BOOK by @catherinelacey.bsky.social A genre-hybrid work that is both non-fiction and fiction with no beginning and no ending. A story about a sudden, devastating break-up from one of America’s most inventive and daring writers working today. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
just wait till you get a read of this
Granta Books@grantabooks.bsky.social · last yr.'Is this honest? Are we all being honest here?' A simple question, but one that turns characters' lives upside down in the dazzling new novel from Nicola Barker, TONYINTERRUPTOR. And here is its fabulous cover, designed by Luke Bird www.waterstones.com/book/tonyint...
'Is this honest? Are we all being honest here?' A simple question, but one that turns characters' lives upside down in the dazzling new novel from Nicola Barker, TONYINTERRUPTOR. And here is its fabulous cover, designed by Luke Bird www.waterstones.com/book/tonyint...
TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker | Waterstones
Buy TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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'The very best kind of nonfiction' A glowing write up of DAUGHTERS OF THE BAMBOO GROVE by Barbara Demick in @theobserveruk.bsky.social Read here observer.co.uk/culture/book...
The story of China’s banished children | The Observer
Through the story of two families, Barbara Demick reveals how children forcibly taken from their parents were then put forward for ‘rescue’ in the west
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'In my search for a different kind of self, I found kink — or perhaps decided, as the known world around me was collapsing, to finally face the fact that I’ve always been drawn to it' Anastasiia Fedorova, author of SECOND SKIN, for Cosmopolitan www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
‘How exploring kinks, fetishes, and BDSM helped me manage my anxiety’
As writer and curator Anastasiia Fedorova publishes her book about sexual fetishists, Second Skin, she reflects on how embracing her desires finally made her feel comfortable in her own skin
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Today is publication day for these three brilliant new titles 💥 I GAVE YOU EYES AND YOU LOOKED TOWARDS DARKNESS by Irene Sola (tr. Mara Faye Lethem) SECOND SKIN by Anastasiia Fedorova DAUGHTERS OF THE BAMBOO GROVE by Barbara Demick Happy reading 🎊
Tonight in Bristol! Anastasiia Fedorova and Polly Barton in-conversation at @bookhaus.bsky.social Tickets here 👇 www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/boo...
Second Skin launch with Anastasiia Fedorova at Bookhaus
The smell of leather. The flash of a harness. The snap of a latex glove. Welcome to the radical, vibrant world of sexual fetishists. In 21st century commodity culture, we are all intimately involved ...
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'You can read it from either end, and go round again, as memoir collides with invention in a brilliant interrogation of art, faith and relationships' THE MOBIUS BOOK by @catherinelacey.bsky.social, reviewed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey review – beyond the bounds of fiction
You can read it from either end, and go round again, as memoir collides with invention in a brilliant interrogation of art, faith and relationships
theguardian.com
Tonight at @portybooks.bsky.social in Edinburgh with Madeleine Thien! Last minute tickets still available 👇 www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/madel...
Madeleine Thien - The Book of Records at The Portobello Bookshop
Please come and join us for Madeleine Thien - The Book of Records on 28th May, at The Portobello Bookshop
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Edinburgh readers - get down to @portybooks.bsky.social next week to catch Madeleine Thien speak about THE BOOK OF RECORDS ✨ 'A rich and beautiful novel' Guardian Wednesday 28 May www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/madel...
Madeleine Thien - The Book of Records at The Portobello Bookshop
Please come and join us for Madeleine Thien - The Book of Records on 28th May, at The Portobello Bookshop
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The advance praise for @benpester.bsky.social's THE EXPANSION PROJECT is coming in thick & fast. Here's the latest: ‘A slippery jewel of a novel that refracts received notions on work and family...This is a luminous and startling novel from a unique new voice' @fishersam.bsky.social
The brilliant @barbarademick.bsky.social in-conversation with @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social at @dauntbooks.bsky.social Marylebone ✨ 9 June, 7pm Get your tickets here dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...
Barbara Demick in conversation with Lindsey Hilsum
Buy tickets for the event with Barbara Demick in conversation with Lindsey Hilsum at Daunt Books Marylebone from Daunt Books today.
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🧵 #1 We gave you some of our children’s highlights, so here are some highlights from our #SIGNED fiction First up, we have THE BOOK OF RECORDS by Madeleine Thien @grantabooks.bsky.social - a work of huge originality, which shows the Booker-shortlisted writer at her most ambitious #BookSky📚💙 👇🏻
Happy publication to today's brilliant new titles 🎈 THE BOOK OF RECORDS by Madeleine Thien - the new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of DO NOT SAY WE HAVE NOTHING uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The winner of this giveaway is @tashamsa.bsky.social 🎊 Please message us to collect your prize!
Granta Books@grantabooks.bsky.social · last yr.We're giving away this VANISHING WORLD goodie bag to a lucky winner on both Bluesky and Instagram 🍎 To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is: - Follow @grantabooks.bsky.social - Repost - Leave a comment tagging a friend (more tags = more entries) - Enter by 2 May See below for T+Cs.
‘A profoundly moving, extraordinary novel...Witty, touching, layered & entirely original, It held me in its spell & devastated me in welcome ways...It will haunt me for a long time’ Great to see @regretteruane.bsky.social's enthusiastic response to THE EXPANSION PROJECT by @benpester.bsky.social
Closing at 5pm today! Winners announced on Monday. Get your entries in 🍀
Granta Books@grantabooks.bsky.social · last yr.We're giving away this VANISHING WORLD goodie bag to a lucky winner on both Bluesky and Instagram 🍎 To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is: - Follow @grantabooks.bsky.social - Repost - Leave a comment tagging a friend (more tags = more entries) - Enter by 2 May See below for T+Cs.
‘[Sayaka Murata's] writing is compulsive, and she has an uncanny gift for intimate observations that get under the skin…VANISHING WORLD narrates the creep of a new worldview' www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata review – a future without sex
The Convenience Store Woman author imagines the creep of a new worldview, in a novel that highlights the weirdness of normal life
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