About the book:
As editors Toby Litt and Ali Smith explain in their introduction: "newness is quite a venerable category. There's not much that's new about it. In the 1930s, when a magazine called New Writing was first published, it had to compete with New Signatures, New Country, New Verse, the Statesman and Nation and New Theatre, and what with the New Woman of the 1890s and new everything else, even then, new wasn't the new new...If we've achieved diversity, it's because our submissions were themselves diverse; and the final selection is representative of the proportion of short stories to novel extracts, poems and essays that were submitted. Originality is only proven over time, paradoxically. We are confident that some of the names here you've never heard before will become very familiar. They may even disgrace themselves by winning prizes, becoming established, etc. But they'll be the kinds of writer, like the known names published here, for whom everything they write is a renewal - of language, of place, of the senses and of the contemporary."

RELEASE NOTES:

Swapped for Slipping Down Life by Anne Tyler.

Enjoy the book!

Welcome to bookcrossing!

If you got to this page, the chances are you already entered the BCID number so you're well on your way - see that didn't hurt at all ;o)!

You can remain anonymous or join (its free)! Either way leave an entry for the book...
1) You can make a journal entry about how you found the book, what your initial impressions were, any adventures you had whilst in persuit of said book etc.
2) this book will now appear on your 'bookshelf' (if you join) in the little virtual world on bookcrossing that is all yours.

Swapped this book on www.readitswapit.co.uk which is a great way to see your books travel!
This is a fascinating and eclectic mix of new British writing from 2005. It's a great read to dip into.