Granta Books

25/09/2025

Order a signed copy of Somebody is Walking on Your Grave by from and receive this free tote bag, while stocks last. Featuring artwork by the brilliant . Link to order in our bio.

Foyles says: ‘Award-winning Argentinian novelist and journalist Enríquez takes an “extraordinary, unsettling, Gothic” journey through cemeteries across the world from Montparnasse and Highgate to the Jewish cemetery in Prague and the hidden Aboriginal cemetery on Rottnest Island in Western Australia, musing along the way on colonial violence, the strange rituals surrounding death and more.‘

16/01/2025

It's our first new books day of 2025, and we're celebrating the publication of UNDER THE EYE OF THE BIG BIRD by Hiromi Kawakami (tr. Asa Yoneda) 🎉

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/under-the-eye-of-the-big-bird-hiromi-kawakami/7741208?ean=9781803512358

08/08/2024

CHRYSALIS by Anna Metcalfe and HISTORY KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT by Christy Edwall are both on the longlist for the NB magazine Nota Bene prize! 🎉

Anyone can vote for the titles they think should make it to the shortlist stage, so cast your votes here⬇️

INFLUENTIAL FICTION CELEBRATED BY NOTABLE READERS Find out more! LONGLIST JUST ANNOUNCED * LONGLIST JUST ANNOUNCED * Introducing our 2024 Longlist! Our 2024 longlist is finally here! We’re incredibly excited to share our longlist of 25 diverse, thought-provoking and relatable reads. If you’d lik...

25/07/2024

Introducing THE HAPPINESS OF DOGS by Mark Rowlands (and also Lexi, the Scottish Terrier). This is a ground-breaking book of philosophy that takes a dog's-eye view of the world 🦴

Cover by Dan Mogford

Publishing in September. Pre-order today!
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-happiness-of-dogs-why-the-unexamined-life-is-most-worth-living-mark-rowlands/7688577

04/07/2024

Happy publication day to our gorgeous new titles and paperbacks!

THE FLITTING by Ben Masters
THE SECOND COMING by Garth Risk Hallberg
CROSS by Austin Duffy

JULIA by Sandra Newman
EVERY DROP IS A MAN'S NIGHTMARE by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

Happy reading! 📚

03/07/2024

Introducing THE DEAD OF WINTER, Sarah Clegg’s fascinating exploration of the darker side of Christmas, and the strange folk tales and arcane traditions that haunt the festive season 🖤

We’re delighted to reveal this stunning cover by the one and only Micaela Alcaino ✨

‘Dark and delicious… I plan on spending every Christmas now revisiting this wonderful book’ Lisa Morton

‘A lively, moving, thoughtful and erudite survey of the more disturbing aspects of the modern world’s most important festival’ Ronald Hutton

‘Away from the turkey and tinsel, Sarah Clegg bravely escorts us to the dark side of the festive season… A fascinating, menacing miscellany’ Malcolm Gaskill

Get your Christmas shopping in early and pre-order today!
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-dead-of-winter-the-demons-witches-and-ghosts-of-christmas-sarah-clegg/7694097?ean=9781803511535

20/06/2024

Today we are publishing our 75th anniversary edition of George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR ♥️

Our new edition features facsimile pages from the original manuscript, an introduction by Sandra Newman (author of JULIA), and a gorgeous design by Luke Bird

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/nineteen-eighty-four-george-orwell/11630?ean=9781783789924

19/06/2024

Many congratulations to Noel O'Regan, who has made it onto the shortlist for the John McGahern Prize for debut Irish fiction for THOUGH THE BODIES FALL 🥳

'A book about duty and love, it will stay with you long after you have turned the final page'

Prof Shovlin said, ‘Five years feels something like maturity for the prize and we were delighted to see, once again, a very strong field’