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Ben Pester @benpester.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

What a list to be on! Very happy about this. @grantabooks.bsky.social @jasonarthur.bsky.social

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Annabookbel @annabookbel.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Reading -or not reading-in bed with HarryInterruptor. Loving it. @grantabooks.bsky.social

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The first story in this collection genuinely ruined my day and I mean that as a compliment

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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

‘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 book entitled 'Every One Still Here' by Liadan Ní Chuinn, with a cover photo depicting pink smoke on a heath.

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

‘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...

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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

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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

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

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James Crawford @jdcrawf.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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...

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bookanista @wearebookanista.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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...

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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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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

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.

Dave Tynan’s We Used to Dance Here. Cover Evelyn Hofer’s wonderful 1966 photograph ‘Dublin Sky’.

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

our copy arrived faulty, half the book was upside down

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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-...

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

just wait till you get a read of this

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

'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...

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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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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

'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/...

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‘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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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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 🎊

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

'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...

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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

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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...

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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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Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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

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Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

🧵 #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📚💙 👇🏻

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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-...

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The winner of this giveaway is @tashamsa.bsky.social 🎊 Please message us to collect your prize!

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Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

‘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

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Closing at 5pm today! Winners announced on Monday. Get your entries in 🍀

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Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

‘[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...

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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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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

In turbulent times, a new essay collection from Rebecca Solnit is something to be grateful for 💚 NO STRAIGHT ROAD TAKES YOU THERE traverses the climate crisis, women’s rights, democracy, masculinity, and the far right. It’s essential reading. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/no-s...

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

THE BOOK OF RECORDS, the 'wise and thought-provoking' new novel from Madeleine Thien, publishes next week 🩵 Pre-order today #thebookofrecords #madeleinethien uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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.

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

VANISHING WORLD is out now. A new vision of the future from Japanese literary sensation Sayaka Murata (tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori), in which the norms of sex, love and family are turned upside 🍎 www.waterstones.com/book/vanishi...

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 22/04/2025

Watch Rosalind Eleazar read from Under the Eye of the Big Bird, the #InternationalBooker2025-shortlisted novel written by Hiromi Kawakami and translated by Asa Yoneda. youtu.be/I92t3e5Xw6Y

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Rosalind Eleazar reads from ‘Under the Eye of the Big Bird’ | The Booker Prize

YouTube video by The Booker Prizes

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

VANISHING WORLD by Sayaka Murata (tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori) publishes next week 🍎 Pre-order a limited signed edition from your local indie bookshop #vanishingworld

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

London-based Murata fans! Get down to @foylesforbooks.bsky.social next week for our VANISHING WORLD release party 👇 23.04 Ticket includes a copy of the book and a goodie bag www.foyles.co.uk/events/murat...

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Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Daughter made a badge with her favourite detail from the TonyInterruptor jacket design. To be worn with pride!

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Something to read while you're easing back in to the working week - the @newyorker.com profile of Sayaka Murata. VANISHING WORLD publishes 24.04 🍎 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Sayaka Murata’s Alien Eye

The author of “Convenience Store Woman” has gained a cult following by seeing the ordinary world as science fiction.

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

There's still time to book a ticket to one of our VANISHING WORLD release parties on the 23rd April. Click through the links to find out more 🍎 Foyles: www.foyles.co.uk/events/murat... Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/events/searc...

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

It’s paperback publication day for Ben Masters' THE FLITTING 🦋 A stunning memoir about how butterflies became the vital connection between the author and his dying father. Out now everywhere #naturewriting uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Today we publish NO MORE NORMAL by Dr Alastair Santhouse - a ground-breaking book about the rise of mental health diagnoses ‘A provocative, accessible and engaging reflection on the cultural moment that we are living through’ Irish Times uk.bookshop.org/p/books/no-m...

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Here it is folks, the hardback of Vanishing World in its gorgeous, neony glory. Signed editions are available from selected indies but stocks are limited so give your local a call now and reserve your copy.

A hardback copy of Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata against a peach background. The book features an illustration of an arm plucking an apple.

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Only 2 weeks to wait until the new Sayaka Murata novel hits the shelves! Are you ready for Vanishing World? Pre-order a signed copy from @waterstones.bsky.social here, while stocks last: www.waterstones.com/book/vanishi...

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Adam Zmith @adamzmith.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

and just LOOK at that gorgeous book cover!

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

We’re over the moon that UNDER THE EYE OF THE BIG BIRD by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Asa Yoneda, is on the shortlist for the @thebookerprizes.bsky.social 🍾 #internationalbooker2025

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Listen to Anastasiia Fedorova's recent interview for @adamzmith.bsky.social's Free Sex podcast 🖤 They discuss taking sex seriously and Anastasiia's new book, SECOND SKIN (pub. June) shows.acast.com/free-sex 🔊

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Are you interested in documentary and travel writing but don't know where to start? Joseph Zarate, author of WARS OF THE INTERIOR, is delivering a documentary writing masterclass at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social 22.05.25 - more info here events.bl.uk/events/docum...

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Documentary Writing Workshop | British Library

Are you interested in documentary and travel writing but don't know where to start? Have an idea for a project but wonder how best to structure it?Acclaime

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