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← Back to all issuesGranta 43: Best of Young British Novelists
Spring 1993
Granta 43 celebrates a new generation of twenty of the best new British writers. Selected by Salman Rushdie, A. S. Byatt, John Mitchinson and Bill Buford.
From this Issue
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The Brass Bar
Louis de Bernières
‘In the late seventies I was desperately attempting to avoid having a career by doing what I supposed were 'real' jobs.‘
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Failing to Fall
A.L. Kennedy
‘This is the one thing I know from the minute I lift the receiver and slip that voice inside my ear: it will happen.‘
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Reference Points
Philip Kerr
‘It was eating oysters, four hundred of the bivalve sons-of-bitches, that finally killed my father, in a theatre-bar off St Martin's Lane.‘
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Eight Arms to Hold You
Hanif Kureishi
‘One day at school–an all-boys comprehensive on the border between London and Kent–our music teacher told us that John Lennon and Paul McCartney didn't actually write those famous Beatles songs we loved so much.'
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Letters from Wellfleet
Adam Lively
‘I promised you an account of the town's musical life.‘
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Neighbours
Adam Mars-Jones
‘Terry and I entertained hundreds of couples over the years, and I don't think we were unusual.‘
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The Many Colours of Blood
Candia McWilliam
‘We lived much of our life in the houses of others, and in our own house there lived with us most of the time people other than ourselves.‘
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A Bosnian Alphabet
Lawrence Norfolk
‘APOLOGY: A should be for Alphabet: the device I am resorting to in some desperation to structure my thoughts on this subject: my relations vis-à-vis two Yugoslavian wars.‘
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A Bizarre Courtship
Ben Okri
‘One morning, more golden than yellow, I went outside to our housefront and saw that the beggars had gone.‘
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West
Caryl Phillips
‘Curling herself into a tight fist against the cold, Martha huddled in the doorway and wondered if tonight she might see snow.‘
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Wavery’s Last Post
Nicholas Shakespeare
‘At five in the afternoon, the Bahia de Abyla sailed out of Algeciras.‘
