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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. The company operates from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. In 2012, it was nominated for the Newcomer of the Year award by the Independent Publishers Guild.
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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 ten titles longlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award. It went on to make the shortlist and has also been shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.
Deborah Levy's Swimming Home was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012, as well as UK Author of the Year at the Specsavers National Book Awards 2012 and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2013.
And Other Stories was nominated for and subsequently won Publisher of the Year in the 2011 3:AM Magazine Awards.