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Violets
Alex Hyde
‘There was the enamel pail of blood. She couldn’t think what she had done with it.’ An excerpt from Alex Hyde’s debut novel.
Granta Books Writing|The Online Edition
Earthlings
Sayaka Murata
Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
An excerpt from Earthlings, translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.
Granta Books Writing|The Online Edition
First Rites
Anna Della Subin
An excerpt from Anna Della Subin’s Accidental Gods.
Granta Books Writing|The Online Edition
Slime
Susanne Wedlich
Translated by Ayça Türkoğlu
‘We are all creatures of slime, but some of us are more creative than others’. An excerpt from Slime by Susanne Wedlich, translated from the German by Ayça Türkoğlu.
Granta Books Writing|The Online Edition
Indigenous Defenders: Why Tribes Do Conservation Better Than Conservationists
Fred Pearce
A chapter from A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World.
A Passage North
Anuk Arudpragasam
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE
It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother’s former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, an activist he fell in love with four years earlier while living in Delhi, bringing with it the stirring of distant memories and desires.
As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for the funeral, so begins a passage into the soul of an island devastated by violence. Written with precision and grace, A Passage North is a poignant memorial for the missing and the dead, and a luminous meditation on time, consciousness, and the lasting imprint of the connections we make with others.
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From Another World
Evelina Santangelo
An excerpt from the novel From Another World, translated from the Italian by Ruth Clarke.
Earthlings
Sayaka Murata
An excerpt from Earthlings, translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.
Notes on Craft
Sara Freeman
Sara Freeman, author of Tides, on writing while seeing the wood for the trees.
In Conversation
Will Alexander & James Goodwin
‘I may have mentioned this at a prior time but there are around 250,000 words in the English language, yet within the utilitarian scale they seem consumed according to advertising and profit.’
Lice
A. K. Blakemore
‘I often had head lice as a child. Outbreaks circulated around my primary school on a seasonal basis.’
A new essay from the author of The Manningtree Witches.
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News, Prizes & Events
The Manningtree Witches Shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize
The Manningtree Witches by AK Blakemore is shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize 2022.
Violets Longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize
Violets by Alex Hyde has been longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize 2022.
A Passage North Shortlisted for Dylan Thomas Prize
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam is on the shortlist for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2022.
