It comes back in different ways. But this more than any other.


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‘It is obvious now that we can have no control over our journey, or its end.’
It comes back in different ways. But this more than any other.
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‘She must have loved gold seeing that everything in the penthouse was gold. We didn’t sit. Fear didn’t let us see where to sit.’ A story by Adachioma Ezeano.
‘I had also, a week earlier, been fired for trying to sleep with my boss’s husband. I got the idea from a book, or maybe every book.’ A story by Emily Adrian.
‘The Mitsubishi conglomerate controls a forty per cent share of the world market in bluefin tuna; they are freezing and hoarding huge stocks of the fish every year.’ Katherine Rundell on extinction speculation.
‘Two roof tiles are missing to the rear: the kiss of death. Without repair, ruination is now inevitable. Until then, this is my best hope of shelter.’ Cal Flyn visits the island of Swona in northern Scotland.
‘I’m on the cliff of myself & these aren’t wings, they’re futures. / For as long as I can remember my body was a small town nightmare.’ A poem by Ocean Vuong.
Ross Raisin was born in Yorkshire. He has written two novels, Waterline and God’s Own Country.
More about the author →‘A few drivers had slowed to look up at the side of the coach as it circled the roundabout.’
‘Ducks are very sexual creatures. Domestic ducks, unlike wild ones, are polygamous.’
‘I was up at 5.30 this morning, to screaming, and it’s afternoon now and I’m covered in hummus and struggling to muster the energy to remove it from myself.’
Ross Raisin discusses how he evokes place and inhabits characters in his writing, the difference in his approaches to novels and short stories and his work on his forthcoming novel.
A selection of Granta contributors discuss the books they read in 2012.
‘I get into the police car with four officers from the Anti-Terrorism Branch. They are taking me to the prison.’
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