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We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025 is ‘And the Walls Became the World All Around’ by Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Sigrid Rausing and published by @GrantaBooks!
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A reminder that you can find us on Instagram: instagram.com/grantabooks/
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It's publication day - head over to our Instagram to check out the new books hitting the shelves today: instagram.com/p/DLpLAnxogUE/…
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🫧 Our author of the month, Mariana Enriquez has a message for our members! 🫧
Join her and Megan McDowell for the Babelfish Book Meet as we discuss their new book The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. 🚬
🗓️ Thursday | 26th June | 6 p.m. IST
📍Planterie
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Out today ➰ THE MÖBIUS BOOK by @catherinelacey
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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'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 @lukejbird
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'The very best kind of nonfiction'
A glowing write up of DAUGHTERS OF THE BAMBOO GROVE by @BarbaraDemick in the @ObserverUK
Read here
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'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 @CosmopolitanUK
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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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Tonight in Bristol! Anastasiia Fedorova and Polly Barton in-conversation at Bookhaus
Tickets here 👇
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'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, reviewed in @GuardianBooks
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Tonight at @PortyBooks in Edinburgh with @madeleinethien! Last minute tickets are still available 👇
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Edinburgh readers - get down to @PortyBooks next week to catch @madeleinethien speak about THE BOOK OF RECORDS ✨
'A rich and beautiful novel' Guardian
Wednesday 28 May
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Congratulations Carys!
“Beautifully written, with an even more beautiful message, about human connection that’s so needed in the world right now.”
We’re delighted to award Clear by Carys Davies the 2025 Ondaatje Prize, recognising the best literary work which evokes the spirit of a place.
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Happy Tuesday, book lovers! Here's this week's Top 10...
Evenings and Weekends by #OisínMcKenna @4thEstateBooks
Butter by #AsakoYuzuki trans. #PollyBarton @4thEstateBooks
Perfection by #VincenzoLatronico trans. #SophieHughes @FitzcarraldoEds
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The brilliant @BarbaraDemick in-conversation with @lindseyhilsum at @Dauntbooks Marylebone ✨ 9 June, 7pm
Get your tickets here
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Happy publication to today's brilliant new titles 🎈
THE BOOK OF RECORDS by @madeleinethien - the new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of DO NOT SAY WE HAVE NOTHING
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NO STRAIGHT ROAD TAKES YOU THERE by @RebeccaSolnit - essays on the climate crisis, feminism, and the rise of the far-right
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And finally, ABSENCE by Issa Quincy - a stunning, atmospheric debut novel by a new literary talent
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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.
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