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Annabookbel @annabookbel.bsky.social · Aug 30

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

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · Jul 17

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

Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · Jul 17

‘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!

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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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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · Jul 17

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 · Jul 17

‘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...

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · Jul 17

‘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...

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · Jul 8

‘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

www.theguardian.com

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · Jun 24

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 · Jun 29

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 · Jul 3

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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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · Jun 22

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 · Jun 19

our copy arrived faulty, half the book was upside down

Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · Jun 19

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.

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · Jun 19

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 · Jun 10

just wait till you get a read of this

Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · Jun 10

'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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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · Jun 10

'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.

www.waterstones.com

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · Jun 9

'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

observer.co.uk

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · Jun 5

'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

www.cosmopolitan.com

Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · Jun 5

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 · Jun 4

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 ...

www.headfirstbristol.co.uk

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · Jun 3

'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

www.theguardian.com

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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · May 28

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

www.theportobellobookshop.com

Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · May 23

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

www.theportobellobookshop.com

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Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social · May 14

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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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social · May 14

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.

dauntbooks.co.uk

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Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social · May 13

🧵 #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 · May 8

And finally, ABSENCE by Issa Quincy - a stunning, atmospheric debut novel by a new literary talent

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/abse...

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