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Contents
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Circling the Square 4Alive, Alive Oh! 5Paulina & Fran 8Nobody is Ever Missing 9Seven Good Years 9This Living and Immortal Thing 10Under the Udala Trees 11Ismael and His Sisters 12All Days Are Night 12Have You Been Good? 13Freedom Regained 13Dog Run Moon 14This House Is Not For Sale 15The Story of My Teeth 15Prodigals 16Journeyman 17The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne 18Signs for Lost Children 18Addlands 19The Wine Dine Dictionary 20Undermajordomo Minor 21I’m Jack 21
GRANTA MAGAZINE
Granta 134: Winter issue 24Granta 135: New Irish Writing 25
PORTOBELLO
Human Acts 28Curvology 29Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? 29City of Thorns 30The Latecomer 31Continental Shift 32Do It Like a Woman 33Mexican Hooker #1 34Exotic England 35The Saffron Road 35The Fox Was Ever the Hunter 36Cast Away 37
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Stories from the Egyptian Revolution
From the acclaimed New Yorker writer comes a compelling chronicle of the Egyptian Revolution, told through the stories of the activists and the indifferent, the military and the liberals.
In January 2011, as the crowds gathered in Tahrir Square to protest Mubarak’s three decades of rule, Wendell Steavenson went to
Cairo to cover a revolution that defied historical precedent and the templates of storytelling.
As she walked among the tents and tanks, falling into conversation, sharing cigarettes and cold soda, Steavenson tells the story of a seismic historical moment as it was experienced by ordinary citizens. Mixing reportage and travelogue, Circling the Square shows how the particular and the personal can illuminate more universal questions: what does democracy mean? What happens when a revolution unsettles everything?
‘Wendell Steavenson is one of the most gifted and perceptive writers of her generation. There is no better person to have been a witness at Tahrir Square... She writes with elegance, grace and authority’ Janine di Giovanni
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wendellsteavenson has lived in and reported from
post-Soviet Georgia, Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon. She is the
author of the acclaimed memoir Stories I Stole and The
Weight of a Mustard Seed. Her work has appeared in the
Guardian, the Telegraph, Granta, Slate.com, Time, the New
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In this sequel to Costa Biography Award-winning Somewhere Towards the End, Diana Athill writes with extraordinary clarity and insight about what really matters, from the remarkable vantage point of her late nineties.
After a long life, which memories stand out? As she approaches her 100th year, Athill, now living in a retirement home
in Highgate, London, recalls in sparkling detail the layout of her childhood garden, relates with humour and honesty her experiences of the First and Second World Wars; and in the remarkable title chapter, describes her pregnancy at the age of forty-three, losing the baby and almost losing her life.
With vivid memories of the past mingled with candid and funny reflections on what it is like to be very old, Alive, Alive Oh! reminds us of the joy to be found at every stage of life.
Praise for Diana Athill:
‘An extraordinary guiding intelligence – sceptical, amused, humane’ New Statesman
‘Eloquent, often very funny, a natural writer’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Startling and enjoyable, not to say riveting’ TLS
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dianaathillwas born in 1917. She helped establish
André Deutsch and worked as an editor for the
publishing company for four decades. In January 2009,
she won the Costa Biography Award for Somewhere
Towards the End, and was presented with an OBE. She
lives in London.
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A beguiling, laugh-out-loud story of friendship and prickly, ever-elusive love; for readers of Miranda July, Sheila Heti, and Tao Lin.
Sharp-tongued, fearsome Paulina meets lovely, listless Fran one night at a house party held near their liberal New England
art school. Together they drift through their classes, critique their fellow students, lavish attention on their curls, and nurture their shared dreams of genius. But when their burgeoning friendship tips from intensity into enmity the two friends find themselves cast out from the halcyon days of art school, divided from one another, and set adrift in the increasingly disappointing world of adulthood.
‘You’re laughing, and then you’re struck, and then you’re struck again and slightly dizzy... [Glaser conjures] an electric array of moods’ Vice
‘Viciously funny, tender, and sexy all at once, every page full of deft and skewering observations. No one is spared’ Catherine Lacey, author of Nobody is Ever Missing
‘A gorgeous book… Glaser captures the rawness and restlessness of youth, friendship, and artists in the making’ Christopher Bollen, author of Orient
rachelb.glaser is an American writer, poet, and artist.
She is the author of a collection of short stories, Pee on
Water, and MOODS, a book of poetry. In 2013, she
received the McSweeney’s Amanda Davis Fiction Award.
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This dazzling, dark novel follows a young woman called Elyria as she hitchhikes across the wilds of New Zealand, fleeing from her marriage and her sorrows, searching for what’s missing.
‘Wry, surprising and blackly funny... a novel of uncomfortable power’ Guardian
‘Witty, knowing and lyrical’ Spectator
‘[A novel] of striking intelligence and originality... arresting and highly accomplished‘ Daily Mail
‘Compelling and fascinating... a fable for our age’ Independent on Sunday
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catherinelacey’s second novel, The End of Uncertainty, is forthcoming
from Granta Books.
etgarkeretis a leading voice in Israeli culture. He is the author of five
bestselling story collections, which have been translated into thirty-seven
languages. www.etgarkeret.com
From the man the New Yorker declared ‘a genius’, here is an absurdly enjoyable, tragicomic collection of essays about raising a son and losing a father.
‘I am very happy that Etgar and his work are in the world, making things better’ George Saunders
‘Hilarious, brilliant, poignant... this book is like its author: genius’ Ayelet Waldman
‘At once funny and profound, [this] is a gem... Read [Keret], and the world will never look the same again’ Claire Messud
‘Close in spirit to Woody Allen... pin-sharp snapshots [that] temper nervous comedy with aching tenderness’ Independent
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Etgar Keret
Seven Good Years A Memoir
Nobody is Ever Missing Catherine Lacey
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austinduffygrew up in Ireland and studied medicine
at Trinity College Dublin. He is a practising medical
oncologist at the National Cancer Institute in Washington
DC, where he lives with his wife and two children. In
2011, Duffy was awarded RTE’s Francis MacManus
award for his short story ‘Orca’.
A highly original and darkly funny debut novel set in a New York cancer hospital where a disillusioned and alienated Irish doctor struggles with questions of death and life – and love.
‘My life is in your hands, doctor, they would sometimes say, which it never was...’
An Irish oncologist is searching for a scientific breakthrough in the lab of a New York hospital while struggling with his failing marriage and his growing alienation within the city. But life is every bit as persistent as the illness he studies. As he starts a new treatment on his mice, he meets a beautiful but elusive Russian translator, his estranged wife gets in touch, and his supervisor pressures him to push ahead professionally. And always there is the pull of the place he considers home.
Shot through with Duffy’s haunting, beautiful descriptions of the science underlying cancer, This Living and Immortal Thing shows how the cruelty of the disease is the price we pay for the joy and complexity of being in the world.
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This Living and Immortal Thing
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A powerful love story that follows the life of one woman from the chaos of Nigeria’s 1968 civil war through loss, marriage, and motherhood.
One day in 1968, at the height of the Biafran civil war, Ijeoma’s father is killed. Separated from her grief-stricken mother,
she meets another lost girl, Amina, and the two become inseparable. Theirs is a relationship that will shake the foundations of Ijeoma’s faith, test her resolve, and flood her heart.
In this masterful novel, Okparanta takes us from Ijeoma’s war-torn childhood through the perils and pleasures of her blossoming sexuality, into the everyday sorrows and joys of family life.
‘Remarkable and exquisite... A coming-of-age story that demands not just to be read, but felt, it wraps us in the spell of an exceptionally talented writer and storyteller’ Edwidge Danticat, author of Claire of the Sea Light
‘Boldly unadorned and utterly heartbreaking – Okparanta dares to tell a story that the world desperately needs to hear... A triumph’ Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go
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Under the Udala Trees
chinelookparanta was born in Port Harcourt,
Nigeria. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’
Workshop. Her stories have been featured in the
New Yorker and Granta. In 2013 she was shortlisted
for the Caine Prize for African Writing. She is the
author of Happiness, Like Water (Granta, 2013).
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A unique and powerful novel about love, community, and the barriers we build with language, set in a Maya village in Mexico.
‘The novel constantly examines what it is to communicate, with words, with hands, with eyes, with skin’ Observer
‘[Stern gives us] the chance to see the world through different eyes that only literature can offer’ FT
‘A startling first novel... an opera without song’ Jewish Chronicle
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louisesterngrew up in Fremont, California,
the fourth generation born deaf in her family.
She is an artist and the author of Chattering
(Granta, 2010). She lives in London.
peterstammis the author of Seven Years and
the story collection We’re Flying. He lives in
Winterthur, Switzerland.
From the Man Booker International-nominated author, a masterly novel about a woman who, in the wake of a terrible accident, sets out to rebuild her life.
‘A small gem about starting over when you have nothing left’ **** Metro
‘Stamm has been a big discovery for me’ Colm Tóibín
‘Magnificent... as fascinating as the studies of any anthropologist’ Guardian
‘A brilliant, bruising tale of shattered lives’ Independent
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Peter Stamm Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
All Days Are Night
Ismael and His Sisters Louise Stern
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Freedom Regained Julian Baggini
Freedom Regained The Possibility of Free Will
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A smart, engaging, and thought-provoking exploration of the concept of free will, from one of Britain’s most respected popular philosophers.
‘An excellent book’ Terry Eagleton, Guardian, ‘Book of the Week’
‘Baggini is that happy thing – a philosopher who recognises that readers go glassy-eyed if presented with high-octane philosophical discourse. And yet [it] is in all our interests to consider crucial aspects of what it means to be human... An excellent book’ Observer
Have You Been Good?A Memoir
Vanessa Nicolson
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A moving memoir from the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, chronicling holidays at Sissinghurst, a reckless youth, and the tragic loss of Nicolson’s nineteen-year-old daughter Rosa.
‘A brutal, frank, and bittersweet memoir of poverty amid privilege’ Peter Stothard, author of Alexandria
‘A collection of fragile fragments, handled with care’ Daily Telegraph
‘Vivid and sometimes painfully honest... She has taken the base and battered metal of her life and turned it into gold’ Mail on Sunday
vanessanicolson was brought up in Florence and London. She is the
author of The Sculpture of Maurice Lambert, commissioned by the Henry
Moore Foundation.
julianbagginiis Founding Editor of The
Philosophers’ Magazine. His books include the
bestselling The Pig that Wants to be Eaten and
The Ego Trick. www.julianbaggini.com
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callanwinkwas born in Michigan in 1984 and now
works as a fishing guide on the Yellowstone River in
Montana. His work has been published in the New Yorker,
Granta, and The Best American Short Stories. This is his
first book.
A dazzling introduction to a major new voice in American literature – Callan Wink is a name, and a talent, you will not forget.
A construction worker is chased through the night by a shady local businessman whose dog he has stolen; a Wild West re-enactor
is engaged in a long-running affair with the ‘Indian squaw’ who slays him on the battlefield every year; a boy is tasked by his father to rid the farm of cats. Playing out against the rugged backdrop of the untamed West, these stories are populated by characters who are toughened by life but still tender enough to cry, to care, and to dream. This remarkable debut reminds you just how good writing can be.
‘Callan Wink’s debut is impressive indeed. Fine, old-fashioned, rich and juicy fiction. Weeks later, I’m still living with the characters’ Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall
‘The perils of work and the weight of bequeathal fuel these stories and each one holds a lasting, unshakeable image. Sometimes grace is bestowed upon the characters in a sidewindering not altogether fabulous fashion and sometimes it’s not bestowed at all. Callan Wink seems to know well the stratagems and delusions of men’s hearts. He also seems born and bred for short story mastery’ Joy Williams, author of The Quick and the Dead
Callan Wink
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The Story of My Teeth Valeria LuiselliTranslated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
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Join Gustavo ‘Highway’ Sánchez – a man with a mouth full of cavities and a life full of stories – on his quest for a perfect set of pearly white teeth.
‘[A] gifted young Mexican writer... [The Story of My Teeth] is both a slim magical realist “essay-novel” and simultaneously a dense, allegorical art object... The effect is quite moving’ Literary Review
‘Sánchez’s voice is an engaging one... [full of] Luiselli’s wit’ Financial Times
valerialuiselli, born in Mexico, is the author
of the novel Faces in the Crowd and a collection of
essays, Sidewalks. Her work has been translated into
many languages.
This House is Not for Sale E.C. Osondu
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From everyday violence and magic to the darkly humorous voices of gossiping neighbours, this engrossing novel about a family house in an African neighbourhood draws on the rich oral traditions of Nigeria.
‘A timeless [and] ambitious debut... [it] tells the stories of every one of us, looking for a place in history and society yet struggling to hold on to our private emotions, keeping them intact from the world at large’ Yiyun Li
‘Paints a powerful portrait of a community’ Independent
‘Semi-fantastic modern urban tales [with] a sense of the marvellous embedded within the texture of daily life’ FT
e.c.osondu, born in Nigeria, won the 2009
Caine Prize for African Writing. He is the author
of the short story collection Voice of America.
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A remarkable debut story collection about the disaffection and spiritual longing of the privileged in contemporary America, from a dazzling new talent.
Adrift in lives of possibility and limitation, the flawed, struggling, and sympathetic characters of these desperate, eerie stories
seek refuge from meaninglessness and boredom in love, art, friendship, drugs, and sex. A journalist is either the guest or captive of a reclusive former tennis star at his mansion in the French hills; a terrible storm forces a man and a woman, who may be his therapist, to flee New York together; the artistic ambitions of a banker are laid bare when he comes under the influence of two strange sisters. Unflinching, funny, and profound, Prodigals maps the degradations of contemporary life with unusual insight, sincerity, and passion.
‘This is the best fiction debut [the New Yorker] has published in years’ Lorin Stein of the Paris Review on Greg Jackson’s story ‘Wagner in the Desert’
gregjackson has been a writing fellow at the Fine Arts
Work Center, MacDowell Colony, and the University
of Virginia’s MFA program. A winner of the Balch and
Henfield Prizes and a finalist for the 2014 National
Magazine Award in Fiction, his short stories have
appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, and VQR.
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A visceral, muscular, and exquisitely crafted state-of-the-nation novel about a journeyman searching for meaning in America at the height of the Afghanistan war.
Nolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and an itinerant by nature. While fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and
Afghanistan wars, he builds tract homes across California, travelling between jobs. Following a shocking workplace accident, Nolan uproots himself from the tentative relationships he has made and heads west towards the ocean. On his way he passes through his brother’s town, where events force him to stay put. Bereft of his trailer and his tools, with only the much-neglected mechanisms of his heart to rely on, Nolan turns to the task of building the foundations of a meaningful life.
Praise for The Dog Fighter :
‘The most exciting debut I have read by an American writer since Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides. It is a remarkable achievement’ Geoff Dyer
‘Gripping... Thoroughly absorbing’ New York Times ‘Primal and elemental’ LA Times
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marcbojanowski graduated from the University of
California at Berkeley and received his MFA in creative
writing from the New School. His writing has appeared
in The Literary Review and Granta. His first novel,
The Dog Fighter, was published in 2004.
Marc Bojanowski
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A personal journey with and around Sir Thomas Browne, the 17th-century physician, writer, and myth-buster.
‘A wonderfully erratic, promenading book’ Javier Marías
‘With humour, humility and intelligent generosity, Aldersey-Williams brings Sir Thomas splendidly to life’ Financial Times
‘Written with passion and affection... A delightful read’ Guardian
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hughaldersey-williams is a writer, curator, journalist, and Thomas
Browne obsessive. His books include Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives
of the Elements and Anatomies.
sarahmoss’s novels, Cold Earth, Night Waking, and
Bodies of Light, and her memoir, Names for the Sea,
all published by Granta, have won her a Fiction
Uncovered Award and shortlistings for the RSL
Ondaatje and Wellcome Prizes.
From the author of Night Waking, a powerful enquiry into the workings of the human mind and heart, set in 1880s Japan and England.
‘Sarah Moss is one of our most underrated writers... [Signs for Lost Children is] full of humanity, historical insight and beautiful writing. If there is one author you take a chance on this year, let it be her – it’s time, and money, well spent’ The Times
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Addlands is the multi-generational story of the Hamer family working the Funnon Farm. There is Idris, proud and insular, a
man of the plough and the prayer-sheet, haunted by the war. Then there is the boy Oliver, who grows to be a near mythic giant in the community, a fighter, a man of the hills, seemingly as hard as the prehistoric stone. And there is Etty, Oliver’s mother, the centre of this close constellation. From the silence in the hills to the encroaching roar of modernity, it is Etty who guides and steers the life of the farm.
Praise for Tom Bullough:
‘A mesmerizing intensity... vivid and compelling... daring’ TLS (on Konstantin)
‘Shows Bullough to be a very gifted writer indeed... Truly memorable. 5/5’ Independent (on The Claude Glass)
‘Immensely enjoyable... almost unbearably tense’ Guardian (on A )
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victoriamoore is an award-winning wine writer. She
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Here is the book that is currently missing from our kitchen shelves: a brilliant and authoritative handbook for matching food and wine, from the author of the bestselling How to Drink.
If you’ve ever spent hours creating a culinary feast, only to find yourself grabbing the first bottle from the rack and hoping for the best,
then this is the book for you. Victoria Moore – one of the country’s most popular and influential wine journalists, and an expert in the psychology of smell and taste – doesn’t just explain what goes with what, but why and how the match works too. Written with her trademark authority, warmth, and wit, this book will help food- and wine-loving readers make more informed and more delicious choices about what to eat and drink.
Praise for How to Drink:
‘Clever, trenchant, knowledgeable, imaginative... [A] handsome, useful and engaging book’ Daily Mail
‘Stylish [and] celebratory... Written with verve [and] packed with wonderful ideas’ Metro
‘Unsnobbish and knowledgeable’ Financial Times
Victoria Moore
The Wine Dine Dictionary Good Food and Good Wine: An A to Z of Suggestions for Happy Eating and Drinking
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A novel, a puzzle, a multi-voice portrait, and a virtuoso assemblage of textual elements which takes its inspiration from the true story of John Humble, the Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer.
‘A gripping study in self-invention – and, ultimately, self-erasure’ Tom McCarthy
‘Here are dark telegrams from an expertly realised otherness that is Sunderland. Spare. Swift. Smart. And dangerous’ Iain Sinclair
‘An audacious exercise in mimicry... Its tone is mischievous, with a vein of dark, crafty humour’ Financial Times
markblacklock has a doctorate in 4th Dimensionality and lives in
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Undermajordomo Minor Patrick deWitt
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A raucous, poignant, and spectacularly enjoyable new novel by the author of Man Booker Prize-shortlisted The Sisters Brothers.
‘An electrifying adventure, both tender and profane. Nervy, hilarious and utterly unpredictable, deWitt has served up another dazzler’ Maria Semple
‘DeWitt has an untrammelled and utterly original imagination. I cannot think of anyone else who could pull off so beautifully this controlled explosion of drollery, mischief, sly fun and tenderness’ Neel Mukherjee
patrickdewitt is the author of Ablutions and
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‘We were where people were killed, swiftly or in slow agony, which is easier digested with vodka and good
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‘In five years, I have buried 748 men and I can tell you this: we are all hardened by this misery. Some have lost sons. Others land. But there is nothing so rigid as a man robbed of his humanity.’ Azam Ahmed, ‘The Ferryman’
‘Nzinga doesn’t remember being taught how to plant a bounding mine any more than she remembers learning Mao quotes. The knowledge has always been with her, like the scene of her own premature birth, as told by her papa, each detail so vivid as to create a memory where none exists.’ George Makana Clark, ‘Base Life’
‘Fencing was chess. Victory in the martial arts was not just a victory over another body: it was the subjugation of someone’s mind.’ David Treuer, ‘The Fencing Master’
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A century ago the Irish took up arms to end British rule – the Easter Rising marked the beginning of a period of drastic social
and political changes that continue to reverberate through Irish life.
Aesthetically, too, it has been a century of great experimentation, exploration and evolution. Granta 135: New Irish Writing celebrates one of the most distinguished literary traditions from a contemporary perspective, showcasing new writing from up-and-coming talent as well as from the country’s most established voices.
An issue of fiction, memoir, reportage, poetry, photography and art that will chart the many places, identities and stories that make up a nation, ‘New Irish Writing’ features Kevin Barry, Eimear McBride, Belinda McKeon, Donal Ryan, Colm Tóibín and many others.
Praise for Granta:
‘Provides enough to satisfy the most rabid appetite for good writing and hard thinking’ Washington Post
‘The most highly praised literary magazine. Remarkably, praise is deserved’ New York Times
sigridrausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta
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She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in
Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm and
Everything is Wonderful, which has been translated into
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A riveting, poetic and unrelentingly powerful novel from the author of the highly acclaimed work The Vegetarian.
South Korea, Gwangju, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend’s corpse, a
consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter censorship, denial, forgiveness, and the echoing agony of the original trauma.
Human Acts is a universal book, utterly modern yet timeless. Already a controversial bestseller and award-winning book in Korea, it confirms Han Kang as a writer of great importance.
Praise for The Vegetarian:
‘Understated even in its most fevered, violent moments. It has a surreal and spellbinding quality. Enthralling’ Independent
‘Sensual, provocative and violent... Sentence by sentence, The Vegetarian is an extraordinary experience’ Guardian
‘Devastating’ New Statesman
‘[When I read it,] it was love. Brutal and beautiful – the translation alone is a work of art – this is a book for anyone who believes that the novel’s job is to turn its reader inside out’ Eimear McBride
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Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel
Award. The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into
English, was published by Portobello Books in 2015.
Han KangTranslated from the Korean by Deborah Smith
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Politically engaged but shy of economics? Sharp, funny, and thought-provoking, Marçal shows how society is failing us all (but particularly women) and how much better things could be.
‘Required reading... buy it as a pledge to change the world’ Caroline Criado-Perez, author of Do it Like A Woman
‘Polemical and entertaining’ Observer
‘Smart, funny, readable’ Margaret Atwood
katrinemarÇal lives in London. On publication in Sweden, Who Cooked
Adam Smith’s Dinner? was shortlisted for the August Prize and won the
Lagercrantzen Award.
Curvology The Origins and Power of Female Body Shape
David Bainbridge
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Using evolutionary biology and cutting-edge psychology, David Bainbridge explains why women are the only female animal to have curves, and how these curves rule our lives.
‘A well-rounded argument on fat, form and fertility... illuminating’ Evening Standard
‘Radical’ The Times
‘An engrossing study... fascinating and persuasive’ Sunday Times
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Congo, and has written for a wide range of publications
including the Guardian, the London Review of Books,
and Prospect.
A fearless work of reportage that takes the reader inside Dadaab, the world’s largest and most notorious refugee camp, through the stories of the people who live there.
To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a ‘nursery for
terrorists’; to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort. Rawlence interweaves the stories of those who have come to call this desert settlement home – a former child soldier who lives for football, an indomitable youth leader, a schoolgirl whose future hangs upon her education – and brings to life an urgent human story unfolding in a city like no other.
Praise for Radio Congo:
‘This is a book written where angels fear to tread... With insight, humour and lyricism, Rawlence brings Congo to life, shimmering and vivid’ Jay Griffiths, author of Wild
‘Lucid and elegantly written’ Michaela Wrong
‘Green leads the reader into another world... remarkable’ Michael Holman
City of Thorns Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
Ben Rawlence
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Désiré Cordier is losing his marbles. Or is he? Happily tucked away in the Winterlight Home for the Elderly, Désiré
is looking forward to a quiet retirement with the other forgetful residents, safe in the knowledge that no one knows he’s faking his memory loss. But his escape from the modern world isn’t all he’d hoped for. There’s a former war criminal hiding out in the home and Désiré soon begins to suspect he might not be the only one at Winterlight who’s playing a part...
Praise for The Misfortunates:
‘Unexpectedly tender as well as uncomfortably funny... exquisite’ Guardian
‘A delight... subtle and wonderfully told’ Financial Times
‘Outrageousness yields to eloquence in this darkly intelligent novel’ Irish Times ‘The humour is pitch-black... very funny’ Prospect
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In 2012 he was awarded the Dutch Foundation for
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richardpoplakis an award-winning journalist and
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In Pursuit of American Pop-Culture in the Muslim World.
He is a senior correspondent with South Africa’s Daily
Maverick news site.
From pillaged mines in Zimbabwe to the challenges facing 21st-century Nollywood; from China’s investment in Botswana to the rush for resources in the Congo: welcome to the new Africa.
Africa is failing. Africa is rising. Africa is squandering its bountiful resources. Africa is a roadmap for development. Africa is
turbulent. Africa is doomed. Africa is the future.
On the ground, all of these pronouncements prove equally true and false, as South African journalists Richard Poplak and Kevin Bloom discover on their nine-year-road trip through the paradoxical continent they call home. Following the money as it flows through China to international conglomerates, corrupt heads of state, and ordinary African citizens, Continental Shift presents eight adventures on the trail of a new Africa.
Continental ShiftA Journey Into Africa’s Changing Fortunes
Kevin Bloom and Richard Poplak
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‘Compelling... full of fascinating stories and facts’ Prospect
‘A must-read, put it on the curriculum’ Sunday Independent
‘Eloquent and powerful... essential’ Irish Independent
‘[An] inspiration’ Elle
‘Rousing and immensely readable’ Good Housekeeping, ‘Best non-fiction’
‘Striking… It is refreshing to read a feminist work informed by lives far removed from that of the author’ Guardian
‘[It] grasps the essential impetus of feminism – as collective, connective action by a diversity of women whose voices are as brave and informed as Criado-Perez’s’ New Statesman
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work appears regularly in the UK press. In 2013, she
won the Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year
Award and was named one of the Guardian’s People
of the Year. In 2015 she was awarded an OBE in the
Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Caroline Criado-Perez
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artist. Her first memoir, Something Fierce, won the 2012
CBC Canada Reads competition and was a #1 national
bestseller in Canada. Carmen has been touring her
autobiographical one-woman show Blue Box across
Canada, and is currently writing three new plays.
From revolutionary to actor; from refugee to acclaimed playwright; from victim to lover, wife, and mother: here are the many extraordinary lives of Carmen Aguirre.
At six-years-old Carmen Aguirre was a Chilean refugee adjusting to life in North America. At eighteen she was
a revolutionary dissident married to a man she couldn’t fully love. In her twenties she fought to find herself as an actress and break away from the stereotypes thrust upon her – housekeeper, hotel maid, Mexican Hooker #1.
But alongside these many identities was another that was hard to embrace and impossible to escape: that of the thirteen-year-old girl attacked by one of Canada’s most feared rapists. Thirty-three years after the assault, Carmen decided it was time to meet the man who changed the course of her life.
Praise for Something Fierce:
‘A dryly humorous, tautly narrated and inspiring memoir... extraordinary’ Metro
‘A blend of passion and loneliness fills this memoir... the overriding impression from this moving book is one of personal sacrifice in the struggle against tyranny’ Financial Times
‘Raw, courageously honest and funny; an insightful journey into the formation of a revolutionary soul’ Globe & Mail
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From an award-winning journalist, here is the story of an unforgettable journey from east to the west in the company of the extraordinary women who choose to become Buddhist nuns.
‘Rich and compelling... [has] the power to inspire a new perspective on how to live, how to view those around us, and how to find deep and lasting happiness in what we already possess’ Financial Times
‘An expansive exploration of Buddhism and the plight of Buddhist nuns across the globe’ Herald
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Times. She has received several prizes for her journalism, including
two Amnesty International Awards for Magazine Story of the Year.
Exotic EnglandThe Making of a Curious Nation
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A sumptuous and illuminating portrait of how migration and travel have shaped England – from its language and literature to its customs and culture – by one of Britain’s most outspoken and insightful migrants.
‘So much to savour in this dazzling, impeccably researched and continually eye-opening book, our hidden braided histories brought beautifully to life’ Meera Syal
‘A longed-for, much-needed, intelligent debate on the current state of multicultural England... such a brave and optimistic book, with its effervescent style, must surely be celebrated’ Independent
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2009)
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Born in Romania in 1953,hertamÜller lost her job as
a teacher and suffered repeated threats after refusing to
cooperate with Ceauçescu’s Secret Police. She emigrated
in 1987 and now lives in Berlin. She is the recipient
of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the European
Literature Prize.
An early masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize hailed for depicting the ‘landscape of the dispossessed’ with the ‘concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose’.
Romania – the last months of the Ceaușescu regime. Adina is a schoolteacher. Paul is a doctor. Clara works in a factory. Pavel is
Clara’s lover – and a member of the secret police…
One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox-fur rug has had its tail cut off. On another occasion it’s the hindleg. Then a foreleg. The mutilated fur is a sign she is being stalked by the secret police – the fox was ever the hunter.
Müller’s lucid prose creates a hauntingly cinematic portrayal of the pervasive fear and corruption of the soul under totalitarianism.
Praise for The Hunger Angel:
‘Haunting and lyrical’ Financial Times
‘Müller writes with narrative verve... I was absorbed from beginning to end’ Sunday Telegraph
‘This is a remarkable novel, both bleak and chastening […] with a poetic intensity of focus’ Guardian
The Fox Was Ever the HunterHerta MüllerTranslated from the German by Philip Boehm
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On 19 April 2015, when over 700 men, women, and children perished in the Mediterranean, Europe’s leaders were
swift with a chorus of outrage and promises of action. But this catastrophe could have been prevented. For years, conflict has been driving thousands to risk the perilous crossing, but instead of offering sanctuary, EU governments have been scaling back rescue operations and refusing to overhaul the bloc’s inept asylum system.
Following the fate of a handful of those who have washed up on Europe’s borders, Cast Away offers a vivid glimpse of the personal dilemmas, pressures, and hopes that lie beneath the horrifying headlines.
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she was Deputy Foreign Editor of the Independent,
overseeing the coverage of the Arab Spring, and is now
based in Brussels covering the EU for the Independent
and Time magazine. This is her first book.
Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
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Index
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Addlands 19Adventures of Sir Thomas
Browne, The 18Aguirre, Carmen 34Aldersey-Williams, Hugh 18Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin 35Alive, Alive Oh! 5All Days Are Night 12Athill, Diana 5
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Baggini, Julian 13Bainbridge, David 29Blacklock, Mark 21Bloom, Kevin 32Bojanowski, Marc 17Bullough, Tom 19
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Cast Away 37Circling the Square 4City of Thorns 30Continental Shift 32Criado-Perez, Caroline 33Curvology 29
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deWitt, Patrick 21Dog Run Moon 14Do It Like a Woman 33Duffy, Austin 10
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Exotic England 35
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Fox Was Ever the Hunter, The 36Freedom Regained 13
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Glaser, Rachel B. 8Granta 134: Winter issue 24Granta 135: New Irish Writing 25
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Han Kang 28Have You Been Good? 13Human Acts 28
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I’m Jack 21Ismael and His Sisters 12
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Jackson, Greg 16Journeyman 17
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Keret, Etgar 9
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Lacey, Catherine 9Latecomer, The 31Luiselli, Valeria 15
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Marçal, Katrine 29McDonald-Gibson, Charlotte 37Mexican Hooker #1 34Moss, Sarah 18Moore, Victoria 20Müller, Herta 36
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Nicolson, Vanessa 13Nobody is Ever Missing 9
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Okparanta, Chinelo 11Osondu, E.C. 15
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Paulina & Fran 8Poplak, Richard 32Prodigals 16
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Rawlence, Ben 30
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Saffron Road, The 35Seven Good Years 9Signs for Lost Children 18Stamm, Peter 12Steavenson, Wendell 4Stern, Louise 12Story of My Teeth, The 15
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This House Is Not For Sale 15This Living and Immortal Thing 10Toomey, Christine 35
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Under the Udala Trees 11Undermajordomo Minor 21
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Verhulst, Dimitri 31
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Wink, Callan 14Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? 29Wine Dine Dictionary, The 20
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