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

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

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

‘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...

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...

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

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

'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...

'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...

'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/...

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...

'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...

Tonight at @portybooks.bsky.social in Edinburgh with Madeleine Thien! Last minute tickets still available 👇 www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/madel...

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...

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/...

🧵 #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!

‘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 🍀

‘[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...

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...

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-...

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.

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...

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

'Publishers will continue to seek out imitations of [Murata's] vision — but why bother, when the real thing is so good?' VANISHING WORLD gets a rave in the @financialtimes.com by @john-self.bsky.social 🍎 www.ft.com/content/6524...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Readers of @netgalley.bsky.social, find out why @irishtimes.com called Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn ‘among the best Irish books of the 21st century’. Available to request now: www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

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-...

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...

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.

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...

and just LOOK at that gorgeous book cover!

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

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 🔊

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...

The excellent @rid9way.bsky.social on @benpester.bsky.social's singularly brilliant THE EXPANSION PROJECT: 'Ben Pester renders the baffling peculiarity of employment with a subversive imagination that should get him fired... A weird, unsettling, moving book.'