And Other Stories: Purveyors of fine fiction

To celebrate our start, and talk about books and what’s coming up next, we’re going to meet up in London sometime in September. Ask to be put on our mailing list to be kept informed!

Still got a lingering summer holiday feeling? We’re excited to have heard about some intriguing books from a bunch of people, books not yet in English. We are discussing and reviewing them in our new reading groups. As well as Spanish and Lithuanian reading, there are plans afoot for French, Russian and German. Where possible we have extracts up on our site in English too. We’d love to hear your opinion on the books or extracts from them!

And Other Stories is an open group of people, and a new independent publisher. We cherish novels and stories that take us elsewhere, yet we know that for publishers relying primarily on retail sales (where margins are very low), such risk-taking writing must often be rejected in the Anglophone market. Our choices will be led first and foremost by what we think is good writing and a good way of working. All going well, we will announce our first titles (to be published summer 2011) in September.

By the way, we loved our chance to plot with friends and advisers on 26th May! It was great to see the room (and then the whole pub!) so full of people with such good ideas.