The other three titles were Deborah Levy’s Swimming Home, Iosi Havilio’s Open Door and Clemens Meyer’s All the Lights. The very first one – Juan Pablo Villalobos’s Down the Rabbit Hole – became the first translation shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, going on to be one of our most-read books, loved for its black humour and precocious and foul-mouthed child narrator.

Sophie Lewis, formerly of Dalkey Archive Press, moved to Rio de Janeiro and edited most of our books from there for a number of years. And people loved it, with the first subscribers signing up in 2010. A special kind of crowdfunding that updates an 18th century idea for the 21st century: readers support risky, adventurous writing by subscribing to the books in advance of publication. 2010Īnd Other Stories was born – although it never became a fully-fledged collective, it’s been a collaboration from the start.

There was a lot of enthusiasm for his formula that Publishing = Supply + Demand + Magic. In 2009 Stefan Tobler, a translator and now And Other Stories’ publisher, met with fellow translators and writers to brainstorm the idea of setting up a collective to publish fresh, contemporary fiction. boring), there weren’t many publishers choosing books solely for literary merit. ‘The future of publishing?’ Why not?! We love the books we’re publishing and we hope you will, too.Įven before the late 2000s recession made the output of the big commercial publishing houses risk-averse (i.e. Curious about our reading groups? Follow The Guardian or Publishing Perspectives to find out more. We also have reading groups where people can help us unearth and discuss great foreign books we could publish in English.

We now have about 1,000 active subscribers in over 40 countries, receiving up to 6 books a year. While our books are distributed widely through bookshops, it’s our subscribers’ support that makes the books happen. In 2017 we moved our main office out of the South-East to Sheffield and found such a warm welcome.Īnd Other Stories is readers, editors, writers, translators and subscribers. For example, as we said in this piece in The Guardian, we think more of the English publishing industry should move out of London, Oxford and their environs. And we want to open up publishing so that from the outside it doesn’t look like some posh freemasonry. We aim to push people’s reading limits and help them discover authors of adventurous and inspiring writing.

We select carefully and hope you will agree that the books are good, make you think and able to last the test of time. ‘And Other Stories is KILLING IT! These dudes are an inspiration to me.’ Will Evans, Deep Vellum PublishingĪnd Other Stories publishes mainly contemporary writing, including many translations. ‘And Other Stories: publisher of the month, of the year, of the decade!’ Max Porter ‘And Other Stories is inspired.’ Ali Smith

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