Gavin Francis

‘I came to the Himalayas not because of a dream of mountains or of animals, but because of a map.’

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Sonia Faleiro

Andrew Holleran

‘Returning to Manhattan was like seeing someone who’d once been your lover but was now with someone else.’

Lorna Gibb

‘There are two gardens in my memory. The first was hidden behind the rows of shabby council houses where I grew up.’

V. V. Ganeshananthan

‘Shobasakthi is also known as Anthony X; he is an ex-militant; he is an expatriate.’

Anjum Hasan

‘What is hard to miss and impossible not to grieve over is how present-day Shillong has been overwhelmed by the material aspirations of its people.’

Adam Foulds

A short film featuring Adam Foulds, one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists.

Julian Jackson

‘I don’t have a short answer to where I am from – but perhaps that lack of ‘place’ influences my writing voice.’

Julian Jackson

‘All the time I could sense the watchful eyes and listening ears at the end of the bar.’

Jenni Fagan

Best of Young British Novelist Jenni Fagan selects five songs that she loves to write to.

John Freeman

‘We live in unreaderly times, but our belief is that these novelists will be exceptions to the general rule of irrelevance faced by writers today.’

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Steven Hall

‘Entropy is what drives time forwards, and only forwards.’

Adam Foulds

‘His life, unexciting as it may have been so far, was still a detailed, complicated thing.’

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Sarah Hall

‘He can dream of fields of unicorns or invest in the reanimation of sabretooth DNA, if the prognostication visits him.’