And Other Stories

And Other Stories
Founded2009 (2009)
FounderStefan Tobler
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters locationSheffield, South Yorkshire
DistributionNBN International (Europe)
Consortium Book Sales & Distribution (North America)[1]
Publication typesBooks
Official websitewww.andotherstories.org

And Other Stories is an independent British book publisher founded in 2009, notable for being the first UK publisher of literary fiction to make direct, advance subscriptions a major part of its business model as well as for its use of foreign language reading groups to choose the books that it publishes.[2][3] The company originally operated from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, but is now based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.[4][5] In 2012, it was nominated for the Newcomer of the Year award by the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG),[6] and has gone on to publish multiple award-winning books, most recently the 2025 International Booker Prize winner Heart Lamp.

History

And Other Stories was founded in 2009 by Stefan Tobler. And Other Stories first came to the public's attention when its first book, Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos (translated by Rosalind Harvey), was chosen by the public to be one of the 10 titles longlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award.[7] It went on to make the shortlist and has also been shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.[8]

Deborah Levy's Swimming Home was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012,[9] as well as UK Author of the Year at the Specsavers National Book Awards 2012.[10] and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2013.[11]

And Other Stories was nominated for and subsequently won Publisher of the Year in the 2011 3:AM Magazine Awards.[12]

Following Kamila Shamsie's 2015 call for publishers to address gender disparity in book prizes, And Other Stories was the only press to answer her by publishing only women throughout 2018.[13] This included then unpublished work from cult writer Ann Quin, titled The Unmapped Country: Stories and Fragments. A resurgence of popularity for the obscure "writer from the front rank of Britain's literary avant-garde"[14] continued with a reprinting of her complete catalogue by And Other Stories, including Berg (2019), Three (2020), and Tripticks (2022).

Award listings continued throughout and beyond the pandemic. Phenotypes by Paulo Scott was longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize,[15] and it won And Other Stories the prestigious Jabuti Prize for best foreign publication of a Brazilian book in 2023.[16] Also in 2023, And Other Stories published Eva Baltasar's Boulder, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize,[17] while the publisher's first poetry collection, Pitch & Glint by Lutz Seiler, was the Poetry Book Society's Translation Choice in Autumn.[18]

2023 also saw And Other Stories adopt its signature cream and black covers, "putting words first."[19]

Several And Other Stories publications from 2024 were shortlisted for awards, including Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright. In Australia, it won the Stella Prize[20] and the Miles Franklin Award,[21] and in the UK it secured the James Tait Black Prize.[22]

In 2025, there was further publishing of poetry collections, while Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq marked a number of firsts with its International Booker Prize Win: it is the first short story collection to win, and the first Kannada-language work shortlisted.[23] Translator Deepa Bhasthi is also the first winning translator from the Global Majority.

List of books

References

  1. ^ "Trade". And Other Stories Publishing. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  2. ^ Brock, Ollie (2 February 2012). "Fiction in translation's future?". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
  3. ^ Mansfield, Catherine. "A 21st century labour of love". BookTrust. Archived from the original on 11 May 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
  4. ^ Carter, Helen (10 October 2012). "Independents' day? Small presses make up 50% of Booker shortlist", The Guardian. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  5. ^ Womersley, Maggie (3 September 2012). "And Other Stories: An Interview with Stefan Tobler" Writers' Hub. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  6. ^ Shine, Bridget (March 2012). "The IPG Independent Publishing Awards 2012". Independent Publishers Guild. Archived from the original on 14 April 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2013. Also shortlisted for the IPG Newcomer of the Year Award were And Other Stories and How 2 Become.
  7. ^ Villalobos, Juan Pablo (11 November 2011). "Guardian First Book Award Shortlist: Juan Pablo Villalobos". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
  8. ^ "The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize". St Anne's College Oxford. Archived from the original on 23 May 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
  9. ^ "Man Booker Prize 2012", The Booker Prizes. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
  10. ^ Waterstones UK Author of the Year announcement Archived 2013-01-18 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  11. ^ Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2013 shortlist. Archived November 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  12. ^ "3:AM awards 2011". 3:AM Magazine. 29 December 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
  13. ^ "The publishing company that's only publishing female authors in 2018". BBC News. 15 February 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
  14. ^ Rourke, Lee (8 May 2007). "Who cares about Ann Quin?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
  15. ^ "The International Booker Prize 2022 | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
  16. ^ "Premiados do Ano | Prêmio Jabuti". www.premiojabuti.com.br. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
  17. ^ "The International Booker Prize 2023 | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
  18. ^ "Pitch and Glint by Lutz Seiler, translated by Stefan ToblerPOETRY BOOK". The Poetry Book Society. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
  19. ^ Tobler, Stefan (16 August 2023). "And Other Stories' Series Design Revealed: Putting Words First". And Other Stories. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
  20. ^ "2024 Stella Prize winner announcement". Stella. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
  21. ^ Burke, Kelly (1 August 2024). "Alexis Wright wins second Miles Franklin prize for Praiseworthy". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
  22. ^ "Fiction winners | The James Tait Black Prizes". The James Tait Black Prizes. 29 October 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
  23. ^ "The International Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
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