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Granta has acquired The Lit Pack: Amis, Barnes, McEwan, Their Circle and Me by Ben Masters, described as an “exploded biography” combining literary biography and memoir.

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(L: US cover (FSG, Dec. 2026) R: UK cover (Granta, July 2026)) There’s a particular genre of books I adore: books about art, making it, living it, pursuing it, struggling to define it in a particul…

The author’s new book centres on her friendship with the artist Mollie Douthit, which became central to her life in an unexpected way

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