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Well-Versed, FSG/MCD associate editor Jackson Howard talks with Thomas Grattan about his new book, The Recent East, which follows a mother and two teens as they navigate a new life in East Germany. From the episode: Jackson Howard: You and I talked about this when I bought the book, but it’s important to me as a queer guy to publish different types of queer stories that aren’t the kind of traditional coming out story that we’ve been served so many times that is just full of pain and abus...

New voices and stories help balance the books Independent.ie 10/01/2021 Emily Hourican The pandemic has been, broadly speaking, good for books, in that reading is a vital survival tool for many of us. Books arent hard to buy online - no faffing with sizes or colours - they are relatively cheap, and usually quickly delivered (kudos to the amazing Irish bookshops that do this so efficiently). However, the pandemic has not been equally good to all books, favouring established and...