Sam Byers
Sam Byers is the author of Idiopathy, which was published in 2013. His work has been translated into ten languages and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Spectator, and the Times Literary Supplement. His second novel, Perfidious Albion, is published in August 2018.
Sam Byers on Granta.com
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Best Book of 2009: William Vollmann’s Imperial
Sam Byers
Sam Byers on why William Vollmann’s Imperial is the best book of 2009
FictionFiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition
Perfidious Albion
Sam Byers
‘In terms of aspiration, leaving London was the new moving to London. You slogged it out, made a name for yourself, then decamped to the sticks and devoted yourself to trashing city life on Twitter while roaming the fields in pursuit of your tweedy ideals.’
In ConversationIn Conversation | Issue 119
In Conversation | Issue 119
Sam Byers | Podcast
Sam Byers & Ted Hodgkinson
‘She lived in fear of him saying something interesting, which might make her fall in love with him; or something horrific, which would shatter the illusion she’d so carefully constructed.’
