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Robert Loyko-Greer
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I co-edited an anthology called 22 FICTIONS:
https://bricklanebookshop.org/product/22-fictions/

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'Superb debut'

#Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal is a Telegraph best book of 2025 📚✨
The greatest books of 2025
Our critics review hundreds of books a year. Here are their favourites from 2025, from fiction and crime to memoir and history
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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serpents-tail.bsky.social
'Highly accomplished, deeply satisfying… For fans of the classic television sitcom Black Books, Service will come as welcome news'

John Tottenham's debut novel #Service gets a glowing review in the TLS, out in bookshops now 📚

www.the-tls.com/literature/f...
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John Tottenham is a British-born, middle-aged poet, novelist, artist, bookseller and semi-professional misanthrope who has lived for many years in Los
www.the-tls.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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left to right, M John Harrison 2020 & CD Rose 2025, displaying their respective Goldsmiths trophies
November 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Join Christian Kracht at Waterstones Edinburgh this coming Monday as he discusses his @waterstones.bsky.social Fiction Book of the Month #Eurotrash. Details below!

📍 Waterstones Edinburgh West End
📅 Mon 17th Nov
🕖 7pm
🎟️ tinyurl.com/33wwkjf2
A rectangular graphic featuring a photo of author Christian Kracht and the cover of his novel Eurotrash. The text on the graphic reads, 'Christian Kracht at Waterstones Edinburgh West End. Monday 17th November 7pm. Visit waterstones.com/events for details'. The Waterstones logo is at the bottom.
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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'Astonishing and captivating' – Karl Ove Knausgaard

A week today, we publish the new paperback edition of the International Booker Prize-longlisted #Eurotrash by Christian Kracht. Discover a darkly comic road trip novel like no other 🚗

tinyurl.com/EurotrashWaterstones
A rectangular landscape graphic with a dark blue background. On the right-hand side is the paperback book Eurotrash by Christian Kracht. To the left of this are the words, 'Discover the cult translated hit Eurotrash'. The Serpent's Tail logo is centred and underneath.
October 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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László Krasznahorkai, born in Hungary in 1954, has written 14 novels and won multiple awards including the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 and the 2015 International Booker Prize.

Discover his work here: serpentstail.com/contributor/...
A photo of László Krasznahorkai next to a quote from him on his win of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 that reads ‘I am deeply glad that I have received the Nobel Prize — above all because this award proves that literature exists in itself, beyond various non-literary expectations, and that it is still being read. And for those who read it, it offers a certain hope that beauty, nobility, and the sublime still exist for their own sake. It may offer hope even to those in whom life itself only barely flickers. Trust — even if there seems to be no reason to’
October 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Would you like to know HOW TO EAT EVERYTHING IN PARIS today? Tune in to our revelatory @garlicandpearls.bsky.social chat with Chris Newens, author of terrific food memoir Moveable Feasts!
Insights galore! A sample…
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September 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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'Masterpiece... you might just have found your new favourite author'

#TheCourseOfTheHeart by @mjohnharrison.bsky.social, reviewed in the Big Issue. This new edition of Harrison's cult novel, featuring an introduction by Julia Armfield, is out now.

www.bigissue.com/culture/book...
The Course of the Heart by M John Harrison review – imbued with mystery and the occult
Back in print for its 20th anniversary, The Course of the Heart refuses give away all the answers, or hardly any for that matter.
www.bigissue.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Hallucinating old geezer somehow got into Waterstones Putney yesterday evening, but Julia Armfield managed to talk him down & he even had some interesting tales to tell.
September 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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This is an extraordinary, beautiful novel. I teach it as part of a graduate fiction seminar at NYU and I am still unpicking its mysteries.
mjohnharrison.bsky.social m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · Aug 7
Begun 1983. Published 1992. Out again today.
Cover of a book. Background: a strange, rather menacing blue background, like the product of an abandoned printing process. Against that a self-reflexive pattern of trees and ruins and water makes the shape of a skull. It's looking at you. It's looking at me. It's looking at everyone.
August 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Aún recuerdo el final de El curso del corazón fue una mezcla de asombro y belleza (algo que siempre siento con Harrison, una belleza dulce)
Volvió a reeditarse El curso del corazón, novela imprescindible (como Light).
Acá la consiguen con editorial Sigilo.
mjohnharrison.bsky.social m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · Aug 7
Begun 1983. Published 1992. Out again today.
Cover of a book. Background: a strange, rather menacing blue background, like the product of an abandoned printing process. Against that a self-reflexive pattern of trees and ruins and water makes the shape of a skull. It's looking at you. It's looking at me. It's looking at everyone.
August 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Featuring Personal Anthology debuts for:

@jencalleja.bsky.social
Yuri Felsen
Shola von Reinhold

So congrats to them!

(NB You can read Jen's own Personal Anthology, a selection of Maltese short fiction, here: apersonalanthology.com/category/jen...)
Jen Calleja – A Personal Anthology
Jen Calleja is a writer and literary translator based in London. Her short story collection I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For is forthcoming from Prototype, and her translation of German aut…
apersonalanthology.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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jonathangibbs.bsky.social
In some belated admin, I've just updated the apersonalanthology.com website with @robertloyko-greer.bsky.social's selection of a dozen short stories... from way back in June!!!
A Personal Anthology
Writers, critics and others dream-edit a personal anthology of their favourite short stories
apersonalanthology.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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I'm speaking about my new book, World Cup Fever, at the Wells literary festival in Somerset on October 20. Tickets available here - come one and all: wellsfestivalofliterature.org.uk/events/2025-...
Simon Kuper - World Cup Fever: A Footballing Journey in Nine Tournaments | Wells Festival of Literature
wellsfestivalofliterature.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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theguardian.com
Gurnaik Johal: ‘I had no idea Zadie Smith was such a big deal!’
Gurnaik Johal: ‘I had no idea Zadie Smith was such a big deal!’
The author on a brilliant biography of Buster Keaton, coming round to Joseph Conrad, and marathon training with Karl Ove Knausgård
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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mjohnharrison.bsky.social
Absolutely delightful evening on the 6th floor of Foyles yesterday, chatting to the great Helen Macdonald. Thanks to everyone who came & got the vibe. Followed by a trip to the venerable Pollo's. Photo: Simon Phillips, thanks Simon.
two writers on a stage chuckling at a joke, flowers on a table
July 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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July 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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'Engaging, perceptive and clear ... However deep we delve, there’s always another layer of myth-making to keep us fascinated, frustrated – and hungry for more'

Tuck into this delicious @theobserveruk.bsky.social review for Chris Newens' #MoveableFeasts 🍽️
How to eat like a Parisian | The Observer
In Moveable Feasts, Chris Newens journeys through Paris peeling back its layers of gastronomic myth
observer.co.uk
July 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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serpents-tail.bsky.social
'Thrilling'

A fantastic review for Gurnaik Johal's #Saraswati in @thetls.bsky.social ✨
Alternating currents
The six great rivers of the historical Punjab all rise in the High Himalayas, then chart their own paths through eastern Pakistan or northeastern India
www.the-tls.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Listen now to my chat on Radio4 with Gurnaik Johal on his debut @serpents-tail.bsky.social novel Saraswati on #TakeFourBooks: where a lost river re-emerges in contemporary India. His 3 influences include @amitav.bsky.social, Joseph Conrad and poet Natalie Diaz! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
July 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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'Part political satire, part ecological allegory, this is an excellent novel to delve into if you're after something both entertaining and thought-provoking'

Another fantastic review for Gurnaik Johal's debut novel #Saraswati 🌊
I read every day — these are my 10 favourite books of the year
If you're looking for something new to read this summer, I would highly recommend trying any of these 10 books, all published this year.
www.express.co.uk
June 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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'Reminiscent of Salman Rushdie, though the debut novels it most resembles in energy and range are David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth'

A stellar review from @john-self.bsky.social for Gurnaik Johal's #Saraswati in the Observer ☀️
Gurnaik Johal’s Saraswati: myth and politics in modern India
The discovery of a holy river sparks celebration and protest in an ambitious, continent-crossing debut novel
observer.co.uk
June 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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thelondonmagazine.bsky.social
ICYMI, we had Gurnaik Johal on the podcast this month to talk about maximalist fiction and his debut novel, Saraswati (@serpents-tail.bsky.social).

Listen to the full episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/4Wd3...
June 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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From my essay on the political space-time of the short story @literaryhub.bsky.social, the intro to the excellent 22 Fictions: New Writing from Desperate Literature & @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social edited by Kate Ellis and Robert Greer published y'day!

Read my essay here:
lithub.com/less-matters...
June 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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A fascinating interview in @wasafirimag.bsky.social with #Saraswati author Gurnaik Johal 👇✨
wasafirimag.bsky.social Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · Jun 23
This April, our Editor @sanagoyal.bsky.social‬ spoke with author Gurnaik Johal at an event at Queen Mary, University of London, about his debut collection WE MOVE, the place of short stories within publishing, literary prize culture, the defiance of untranslated language, & more.

buff.ly/njC2avl
June 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM