The Granta Podcast

Selected in 2003 as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, Rachel Seiffert has since published a collection of stories, Field Study, and a novel, Afterwards , and appears in the current issue of the magazine, Britain, with 'Hands Across the Water' Here Seiffert reads from this new piece of fiction and talks to to Yuka Igarashi about writing silences, the inescapability of history and the Troubles and learning to love her characters.

Mark Haddon reads from his story in Granta 119: Britain 'The Gun', which tells of two boys who get in over their heads, playing with one of their older brother’s more dangerous possessions. He also talks about his new novel The Red House, how objects in stories can be characters in their own right, 'toy hell' and his fascination with Britain’s forests and edgelands.

Mark Haddon reads from his story in Granta 119: Britain 'The Gun', which tells of two boys who get in over their heads, playing with one of their older brother’s more dangerous possessions. He also talks about his new novel The Red House, how objects in stories can be characters in their own right, 'toy hell' and his fascination with Britain’s forests and edgelands.

Cynan Jones is the author of two novels, The Long Dry and Everything I Found on the Beach and this month makes his Granta debut in the Britain issue, with his story 'The Dig'. It tells of a young boy in rural Wales who, along with his dog, is drawn by his father into a strange world of badger hunting and violence. He spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about why he doesn’t want to be defined as a Welsh writer, the pleasures and challenges of writing short stories and novellas and writing about the growing pains of adolescence.

Cynan Jones is the author of two novels, The Long Dry and Everything I Found on the Beach and this month makes his Granta debut in the Britain issue, with his story 'The Dig'. It tells of a young boy in rural Wales who, along with his dog, is drawn by his father into a strange world of badger hunting and violence. He spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about why he doesn’t want to be defined as a Welsh writer, the pleasures and challenges of writing short stories and novellas and writing about the growing pains of adolescence.

Mo Yan speaks to Granta editor John Freeman at the London Book Fair, about writing strong women, retaining idioms and puns even in translation and avoiding censorship.

Mo Yan speaks to Granta editor John Freeman at the London Book Fair, about writing strong women, retaining idioms and puns even in translation and avoiding censorship.

Andres Neuman reads from his novel The Traveller of the Century and discusses translation, writing nineteenth century characters who smell and have sex and using a postmodern aesthetic to tell an epic love story.

Andres Neuman reads from his novel The Traveller of the Century and discusses translation, writing nineteenth century characters who smell and have sex and using a postmodern aesthetic to tell an epic love story.

Jeanette Winterson reads from her new memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal, and her story 'All I Know About Gertrude Stein' from Granta 115: The F Word. She also talks to Saskia Vogel about the close relationship between truth and fiction and the pleasures of Twitter.

Jeanette Winterson reads from her new memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal, and her story 'All I Know About Gertrude Stein' from Granta 115: The F Word. She also talks to Saskia Vogel about the close relationship between truth and fiction and the pleasures of Twitter.

A live recording of John Barth reading his essay 'The End?' from Exit Strategies and discussing what happened to postmodernism and waiting for the muse to call.

A live recording of John Barth reading his essay 'The End?' from Exit Strategies and discussing what happened to postmodernism and waiting for the muse to call.

Jon McGregor talks about reworking his first published story 'What the Sky Sees' from the female perspective and reads from both the original and updated version 'in Winter Sky'

Jon McGregor talks about reworking his first published story 'What the Sky Sees' from the female perspective and reads from both the original and updated version 'in Winter Sky'