Granta Books shares the same impulse as its sibling, Granta magazine: to publish the best new writing—writing which reflects the world around us across a wide variety of genres. The books list originally grew out of the magazine's stable of contributors, but Granta Books now publishes around forty new titles each year from a broad range of new and established international authors. As editors we have no recipe for a Granta book, but we are constantly looking for freshness of approach, distinctiveness of voice, and—whether in fiction or non-fiction—for stories and ideas which compel attention.

Highlights from recent years include Barbara Ehrenreich's undercover investigation of low-wage America, Nickle and Dimed, Michael Bywater's idiosyncratic look at our past, Lost Worlds, and our present, Big Babies, and prize-winning titles such as Robert Macfarlane's Mountains of the Mind (Guardian First Book Award) and Anna Funder's account of her time in post-Communist Berlin, Stasiland (Samuel Johnson Prize).

The list also has a strong commitment to representing works in translations; we have, for example, undertaken a major programme to bring the works of Austrian writer Joseph Roth to the attention of an English-speaking audience. Likewise, Granta authors often find their way into print in other languages; Julian Baggini's The Pig that Wants to be Eaten, for example, is now published in well over a dozen languages internationally.

Our paperback series also reflect on the world around us: What do we Believe? tackles issues of contemporary belief, while the How to Read series introduces some of the greatest philosophical and religious texts in history through 'masterclasses in reading'. Classics of Reportage meanwhile makes available again some of the finest reporting of the past few decades by writers of the calibre of James Fenton, Joan Didion, Martha Gellhorn and Ryszard Kapuscinski.

In the seasons ahead, readers can look forward to an increased commitment to fiction on the Granta list to complement the already very strong non-fiction programme. As I write, This Book Will Save Your Life by A. M. Homes, a writer Granta has been publishing for several years, is on the paperback fiction bestseller list, which must be a good augury.

—George Miller, Editorial Director

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