Books published by And Other Stories

An empowering feminist collection of new stories, essays and poems inspired by spring 2020, raising funds for domestic violence charities

From the author of People in the Room, a literary memoir from Argentina's rediscovered modernist writer, a friend of Borges, Neruda and Lorca.

From mid-century working-class experimentalist Ann Quin, author of Berg, comes this poetic, erotic and psychologically charged mystery.

'John Metcalf has written some of the very best stories ever published in Canada. He comes as close to the baffling, painful comedy of human experience as a writer can get.' Alice Munro

"I wrote this book because I didn't want Amy Winehouse to be dead."

An unforgettably exuberant and potent novel by a writer at the height of her powers

This enigmatic novel, from one of Britain's most important writers of the post-war avant-garde, explores suicide, marriage and class.

A woman keeps her daughters safe in the wake of war and political trauma in Central and Latin America.

Set in Spain and Sweden, twelve dark and funny short stories of characters who range from messy to outright deviant.

Mine fire industrial disaster nonfiction from the bestselling author of Signs Preceding the End of the World

The author of Down the Rabbit Hole delivers a hilarious and prize-winning tale of immigrants, students and gangsters in Barcelona

A masterful collection of essays from one of Australia's most searching and expert writers.

Never before available to readers in the UK, these brilliant and idiosyncratic short stories stand alongside the fictions of Borges, Beckett and Nabokov.

A short, suspenseful Norwegian winter's tale crafted in beautifully spare and precise prose. A harrowing, tragic story of a mother and her son.

From the author of The Iliac Crest, one of Mexico's best novelists, a Lynchian noir where an Ex-Detective tracks a missing couple in a ravaged no-man's-land.

A queer countercultural icon opens up about all things artistic, radical and romantic. Winner of the PEN American Center essay prize.

Love, envy and revenge in divided Britain

The amusing reflections and touching anecdotes of a writer whose journey of self-improvement begins with the basics: improving his handwriting.

A woman challenges biology and convention in her struggle for freedom: a multi-voiced enquiry into the frontier between humans and animals.

Compressed, delicate and brutally precise, Proleterka is a fierce coming-of-age story.

The much-anticipated republication of Ann Quin's masterpiece of post-war British fiction: caustic, thrilling, unforgettable.

A lonely child of unusual sensibility inherits his father's love of horse-racing and his mother's Catholicism in this evocative, semi-autobiographical novel.

Friendship blossoms between an enigmatic girl and a whisky distiller's granddaughter on a remote Scottish island.

The long-overdue UK launch of Christine Schutt, an American master of the short story, with brand-new gems.

A young woman spies three women in the house opposite. She imagines them as criminals, as troubled spinsters, or as players in an affair. Lange's hallucinatory images make this uncanny exploration of desire, domestic space, voyeurism and female isolation a twentieth century masterpiece, here translated into English for the first time.

This hybrid novel uses the stories of polar exploration to make sense of the protagonist's own concerns as she comes of age as an artist, a daughter, and a sister to an autistic brother. Deserved winner of multiple awards upon its Catalan and Spanish publication, Brother in Ice is a richly rewarding journey into the unknown.

Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enough: `At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell'. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here, and as the narrator broods over her schemes to win the affections of the perfect new girl, the novel gathers an unsettling energy.

Marcia is sixteen and unhappy. One day, she hears a shout: 'Wannafuck?' Startled, she turns and is confronted by punk girls Lenin and Mao. She's soon beguiled, but the two have little time for philosophical discussions of love: they need proof, and with their own savage logic the duo stage a hold-up in an unforgettable splatter-fest finale.