Portobello Books
Portobello Books: encouraging voices, supporting writers, challenging readers
Home to the best stories – real and imagined, from far and wide
Selected Portobello books feature in English PEN's Writers in Translation 5th anniversary promotion.
Lorraine Adams
Lorraine Adams, author of 2006’s Orange shortlisted Harbor, returns this month with The Room and The Chair, an energetic and compelling novel that takes us on a corkscrew journey into the world as seen from, reported in, and managed from Washington DC, revealing some dark truths about how a superpower’s agents and critics work along the way.
Kevin Bloom
As a journalist, Kevin Bloom had witnessed and reported on the rising tide of violence in post-Apartheid South Africa but after the brutal, random murder of his cousin, Kevin Bloom was left with shock, grief, and anger – and one burning question: ‘Why stay in South Africa?’
Kevin Bloom's Ways of Staying is our Book of the Season.
