Granta 123: Best of Young British Novelists 4

I try to make a point of reading books by young writers, because I’m interested in seeing what people of my generation are writing. So I was always going to be looking out for the latest Granta Best of Young British Novelists. I’m blogging this as a story-by-story project, but the posts may (where applicable) also take in what else I’ve read of the authors’ work. Here are the contents:

• Kamila Shamsie, ‘Vipers’
• Ned Beauman, ‘Glow’
• Tahmima Anam, ‘Anwar Gets Everything’
• Naomi Alderman, ‘Soon and In Our Days’
• Nadifa Mohamed, ‘Filsan’
• Davd Szalay, ‘Europa’
• Evie Wyld, ‘After the Hedland’
• Taiye Selasi. ‘Driver‘
• Adam Thirlwell, ‘Slow Motion’
• Steven Hall, ‘The End of Endings’
• Adam Foulds, ‘A World Intact’
• Benjamin Markovits, ‘You Don’t Have to Live Like This’
• Joanna Kavenna, ‘Tomorrow’
• Zadie Smith, ‘Just Right’
• Sarah Hall, ‘The Reservation’
• Xiaolu Guo, ‘Interim Zone’
• Helen Oyeyemi, ‘Boy, Snow, Bird’
• Jenni Fagan, ‘Zephyrs’
• Sunjeev Sahota, ‘Arrivals’
• Ross Raisin, ‘Submersion’

That list will gradually turn into a set of links to my individual posts. So let’s go…