And Other Stories

06/09/2024

03/09/2024

THE BOOK OF DISAPPEARANCE by .azem, translated from Arabic by , has been described as ‘seductively bold’ () and ‘timely’ ().

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Alaa is haunted by his grandmother’s memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland after the Nakba. Ariel, Alaa’s neighbour and friend, is a liberal Zionist, critical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza yet faithful to the project of Israel. When he wakes up one morning to find that all Palestinians have suddenly vanished, Ariel begins searching for clues to the secret of their collective disappearance.

That search, and Ariel’s reactions to it, intimately reveal the fissures at the heart of the Palestinian question. Between the stories of Alaa and Ariel are the people of Jaffa and Tel Aviv – café patrons, radio commentators, flower-cutters – against whose ordinary lives these fissures and questions play out.

Critically acclaimed in Arabic, spare yet evocative, intensely intelligent in its interplay of perspectives, The Book of Disappearance is an unforgettable glimpse into contemporary Palestine as it grapples with both the memory of loss and the loss of memory.

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02/09/2024

MAMMOTH by Eva Baltasar, translated by and with an iconic cover by , has been impressing both critics and booksellers. We were delighted to see window displays at on London’s Charing Cross Road and , and an awesome staff pick at Manchester’s . Have you read it yet?

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28/08/2024

COMING OCTOBER 15TH: THE THINKING-ABOUT-GLADYS MACHINE by Mario Levrero, translated by Annie McDermott and

Widely viewed as one of the most inventive bodies of work from 20th-century Latin America, Mario Levrero’s writing is distinguished by its bounteous imagination. In none other of the author’s books is this imagination so clearly on display as in The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine, his 1970 debut collection of stories. It gathers a variety of Levrero’s earliest and most formally inventive publications, ranging from dazzling single paragraph micro-fictions à la Donald Barthelme to adventurous Lewis Carroll-esque tales of forty pages’ length.

From the shocking surreal twists of ‘Beggar Street’ to the Escher-like grammatical maze of ‘The Boarding House’, via the pseudo-fairy tale classic ‘The Basement’, this book explores uncanny domestic spaces, using the structures of the stories themselves as tools for re-inventing narrative possibility.

27/08/2024

AND OTHER BOOKSELLERS: We sat down with iconic bookseller Jack at Southampton’s .books, as part of our ongoing series of conversations with booksellers. Read the full Q&A on our blog (link in bio).

27/08/2024

THE BOOK OF DISAPPEARANCE by .azem, translated by , has been impressing readers and booksellers alike, including the team at East London’s newest bookshop .

20/08/2024

TICHÝ ON TOUR: Andrzej Tichý has been travelling across the UK to promote his collection of short fiction PURITY, translated by . Many thanks to all the bookshops involved for a very warm welcome. You can pick up signed copies, while stock lasts, at

20/08/2024

Calling all Hanne Ørstavik fans. Join the author as she discusses her latest novel, STAY WITH ME, with Catherine Taylor, as part of the London Literature Festival at . Follow the events link in our bio for tickets.

STAY WITH ME, translated by Martin Aitken, publishes on 5 September.

14/08/2024

Lovely to see so many friendly faces at our summer party. Many thanks to Andrzej Tichý and Tim Etchells for sharing their work with us, and to for being the best hosts.

12/08/2024

THIS THURSDAY: Join Andrzej Tichý and his translator as they speak to at Haggerston’s about Tichy’s collection of short fiction PURITY.

Tickets available on our events page (link in bio).

12/08/2024

Eva Baltasar’s MAMMOTH, translated by , is brat. Glowing review dropped in The Sunday Times at the weekend. 🦣

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07/08/2024

COMING SOON: Hanne Ørstavik’s () STAY WITH ME, translated by Martin Aitken, publishes on 5 September 2024.

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The narrator of this novel is a Norwegian writer living in Milan. A year has passed since the premature death of her Italian husband. She falls in love. M is fifteen years younger than her, but the connection between them is intense and of a kind she has never felt before. Then, as his vulnerability starts showing, so does his troubling rage. She knows this rage. It was always present in her childhood, and it created an all-encompassing fear in her.

In STAY WITH ME, Hanne Ørstavik returns to her theme of love, this time exploring how it can be intertwined with insecurity, fear and violence. How do you recognize love? What if your deeply rooted need to protect yourself also means shutting love out?

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07/08/2024

TICHÝ ON TOUR, PART 2:

Andrzej Tichý reads from Nichola Smalley’s translation of PURITY at our summer party at in Sheffield, 13 August, 18:30 BST

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Andrzej Tichý and translator in conversation with at Hackney’s , 15 August, 18:30 BST

Click on the events link in our bio for tickets.

07/08/2024

TICHÝ ON TOUR, PART 1:

Andrzej Tichý and Balsam Karam in conversation at in Glasgow, 11 August, 18:00 BST

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Andrzej Tichý and Yan Ge in conversation at , August 12, 11:00 BST

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See the events link in our bio.

07/08/2024

MAMMOTH IN THE WILD: copies of MAMMOTH by Eva Baltasar, translated by , spotted at on Charing Cross Road. Huge thank you to the Foyles team for showcasing this wonderful book and ‘s iconic cover.

Watch this space for more Mammoth spotting.

06/08/2024

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06/08/2024

Eva Baltasar’s MAMMOTH, translated by , is OUT NOW. 🎉🦣 Cover design by

Mammoth’s protagonist is a disenchanted young le***an. She’s inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down to essentials. She seduces men at random, swaps her urban habitat for an isolated farmhouse, befriends a shepherd, nurses lambs, battles stray cats, waits tables, cleans house, and dabbles in s*x work – all in pursuit of life in the raw. This small bomb of a novel, not remotely pastoral, builds to a howling crescendo of social despair, leaving us at the mercy of Eva Baltasar’s wild voice.

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31/07/2024

OUT NEXT WEEK: MAMMOTH by Eva Baltasar, translated by Julia Sanches, stomps into bookshops on August 6th!

On a scale from 🦣 to 🦣🦣🦣🦣🦣, how excited are you?

29/07/2024

🎉On Tuesday, 13 August, the annual summer celebration of And Other Stories arrives at La Biblioteka, welcoming writers Andrzej Tichý and Tim Etchells. Tichý will read from his acclaimed debut collection of stories, Purity, translated from Swedish by Nichola Smalley, which And Other Stories just published. Etchells will also be reading from new work.

Copies of Tichý’s and Etchell’s work, including Tichý’s International Booker longlisted novel, Wretchedness, and Endland, Etchell’s brutal, comical series of cautionary tales, will be on sale.

The good folks at La Biblioteka will be providing a paid bar.

We cannot wait to celebrate with you!

29/07/2024

Are you thinking about Gladys yet? Coming in October, Mario Levrero’s 1970 collection of short fiction THE THINKING-ABOUT-GLADYS MACHINE.

Widely viewed as one of the most inventive bodies of work from 20th-century Latin America, Mario Levrero’s writing is distinguished by its bounteous imagination. In none other of the author’s books is this imagination so clearly on display as in The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine, his debut collection of stories. It gathers a variety of Levrero’s earliest and most formally inventive publications, ranging from dazzling single paragraph micro-fictions à la Donald Barthelme to adventurous Lewis Carroll-esque tales of forty pages’ length.

From the shocking surreal twists of ‘Beggar Street’ to the Escher-like grammatical maze of ‘The Boarding House’, via the pseudo-fairy tale classic ‘The Basement’, this book explores uncanny domestic spaces, using the structures of the stories themselves as tools for re-inventing narrative possibility.

24/07/2024

FIRE EXIT by reviewed in . We’re looking forward to publishing FIRE EXIT in the UK on October 1st. To read the full review, see the link in our bio.

18/07/2024

This August, join dream author/translator duo Andrzej Tichý and Nichola Smalley as they discuss Tichý's extraordinary debut collection of short stories, Purity, with Anthony Anaxagorou ✨

£5 | Thurs, 15 August, 6:30pm | Burley Fisher Books, London

Thursday, August 15th 6:30-9pm Join acclaimed Swedish author Andrzej Tichý and his translator Nichola Smalley as they discuss Tichý’s debut collection of short stories, Purity, with Anthony Anaxagorou. The stories in Purity take the reader through cities and suburbs, apartments and streets, to f...

17/07/2024

FUNERAL NIGHTS reviewed by for the :

‘An intensively researched and intricately rendered account of everything from the natural world to the sociopolitics of the Khasi tribe, the novel reflects a realm where “the real and the surreal get blurred, spirits and deities become part of what is human and the imaginary is ever in conversation with the everyday”. The narrator’s particular brand of cheeky humour spares no one, not even his own community. Funeral Nights is an enchanting and revealing epic ensemble, and reading it feels like being exposed to the warmth of the fire, listening in on an honest conversation between friends.’

Read the full review via the link in our bio.

Copies spotted in

17/07/2024

Just a hump day thought from MAMMOTH. The new novel from Eva Baltasar is heading your way on August 6th.

08/07/2024

‘This summer, I’m looking forward to diving into Mammoth by Eva Baltasar (tr. Julia Sanches)...’

Mia Levitin picks the forthcoming Mammoth (publishing this August) in her best books of the year so far and summer reads, for The Irish Times 🖤

Colm Tóibín’s Long Island, Lucy Caldwell’s Openings, Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits and Niamh Mulvey’s The Amendments are among the novels with multiple selections