We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025 is ‘And the Walls Became the World All Around’ by Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Sigrid Rausing and published by @GrantaBooks!
🫧 Our author of the month, Mariana Enriquez has a message for our members! 🫧
Join her and Megan McDowell for the Babelfish Book Meet as we discuss their new book The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. 🚬
🗓️ Thursday | 26th June | 6 p.m. IST
📍Planterie
@midlandbook@GrantaBooks
Out today ➰ THE MÖBIUS BOOK by @catherinelacey
A genre-hybrid work that is both non-fiction and fiction with no beginning and no ending. A story about a sudden, devastating break-up from one of America’s most inventive and daring writers working today.
https://t.co/46ZZCiAkwl
'Is this honest? Are we all being honest here?'
A simple question, but one that turns characters' lives upside down in the dazzling new novel from Nicola Barker, TONYINTERRUPTOR. And here is its fabulous cover, designed by @lukejbird
https://t.co/5QpH0MjRPM
'The very best kind of nonfiction'
A glowing write up of DAUGHTERS OF THE BAMBOO GROVE by @BarbaraDemick in the @ObserverUK
Read here
https://t.co/tD6L4wtD0Q
'In my search for a different kind of self, I found kink — or perhaps decided, as the known world around me was collapsing, to finally face the fact that I’ve always been drawn to it'
Anastasiia Fedorova, author of SECOND SKIN, for @CosmopolitanUK
https://t.co/F03e4G3bjr
Today is publication day for these three brilliant new titles 💥
I GAVE YOU EYES AND YOU LOOKED TOWARDS DARKNESS by Irene Sola (tr. Mara Faye Lethem)
SECOND SKIN by Anastasiia Fedorova
DAUGHTERS OF THE BAMBOO GROVE by Barbara Demick
Happy reading 🎊
'You can read it from either end, and go round again, as memoir collides with invention in a brilliant interrogation of art, faith and relationships'
THE MOBIUS BOOK by @_catherinelacey, reviewed in @GuardianBooks
https://t.co/MHrQpHp3us
Edinburgh readers - get down to @PortyBooks next week to catch @madeleinethien speak about THE BOOK OF RECORDS ✨
'A rich and beautiful novel' Guardian
Wednesday 28 May
https://t.co/d6llUgjvKI
“Beautifully written, with an even more beautiful message, about human connection that’s so needed in the world right now.”
We’re delighted to award Clear by Carys Davies the 2025 Ondaatje Prize, recognising the best literary work which evokes the spirit of a place.
Happy publication to today's brilliant new titles 🎈
THE BOOK OF RECORDS by @madeleinethien - the new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of DO NOT SAY WE HAVE NOTHING
https://t.co/rz5JBJ17Az
In turbulent times, a new essay collection from Rebecca Solnit is something to be grateful for 💚
NO STRAIGHT ROAD TAKES YOU THERE traverses the climate crisis, women’s rights, democracy, masculinity, and the far right. It’s essential reading.
https://t.co/okHs0qFYFR