Catapult imprint: 36 books

Mrs. Engels

A Novel

by Gavin McCrea
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

One of Amazon's Top Twenty Books of 2015 • Selected as both a Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of 2015 • Longlisted for The Guardian 2015 First Novel Award "The illiterate lover and eventual wife of a coauthor of The Communist Manifesto is the star of this enthralling work...

The Story Prize

15 Years of Great Short Fiction

by Anthony Doerr, Elizabeth Strout, George Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019

The first-ever anthology honoring the prestigious Story Prize, published in time for the award's fifteenth anniversary and featuring a remarkable list of winners including Anthony Doerr, Edwidge Danticat, Elizabeth Strout, George Saunders, Claire Vaye Watkins, Jim Shepard, Steven Millhauser, Elizabeth...
by Cynan Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018

“To read Cove is to take a masterclass in taking out everything but the essentials. This is writing stripped back to the bone, and storytelling that gets under the skin. Powerful, terrifying, brilliantly done.” —Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13 Out at sea, in a sudden storm, a man...
by Padgett Powell
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015

Named a Best Book of 2015 by NPR and Vanity Fair "Rifles through fear, identity, meaning, and cultural memory in forty-four short, surreal stories." -*Vanity Fair* "By turns moving, funny, and maddening…. very much in the key of Donald Barthelme." -The New York Times Book Review "Somehow...
by Hermione Hoby
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A radiant first novel. . . . [Neon in Daylight] has antecedents in the great novels of the 1970s: Renata Adler’s Speedboat, Elizabeth Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights, Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays. . . . Precision—of observation, of...

Dirt Road

A Novel

by James Kelman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017

James Kelman is a Booker Prize winner with a decorated writing career and intense critical acclaim. Kelman has been named “the greatest living British novelist” in both the Sunday Herald and Frieze Magazine. Only Kelman’s second book set in America, Dirt Road is both a road trip...

The Runaway Species

How human creativity remakes the world

by David Eagleman, Anthony Brandt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017

**“The authors look at art and science together to examine how innovations—from Picasso’s initially offensive paintings to Steve Jobs’s startling iPhone—build on what already exists and rely on three brain operations: bending, breaking and blending. This manifesto . . . shows how both disciplines...

The Middlepause

On Life After Youth

by Marina Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

"In The Middlepause Benjamin deftly and brilliantly examines the losses and unexpected gains she experienced in menopause. Menopause is a mind and body shift as monumental and universal as puberty, yet far less often discussed, especially in public, which is what makes Benjamin's work here so urgently...

Springtime

A Ghost Story

by Michelle de Kretser
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016

“This is a gorgeous, delicately surprising piece of writing. . . . It's like spirit photography, all fuzzy outlines and unaccountable light: a snapshot of something that may or may not exist.” —Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times Book Review When Frances met Charlie at a party in Melbourne,...
by Josephine Rowe
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

Market Smart, literary-inclined readers who voraciously read and recommend books Book clubs, particularly those focused on family relationships, travel, and Australian history Groups or organizations centered around Vietnam War history, veterans’ lives

Ultraviolet

A Novel

by Suzanne Matson
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018

**Named a Best Book of 2018 by Real Simple "This unostentatious yet intricate novel follows the women of a family across nearly a century . . . Domestic scenes emit blasts of emotional life, as the women grapple with the 'swooning collapse and then the expanding distance' between their...
by Jane Alison
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016

**A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 “Nine Island is a crackling incantation, brittle and brilliant and hot and sad and full of sideways humor that devastates and illuminates all at once.” —Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies** Nine Island is an intimate autobiographical...

Vengeance

A Novel

by Zachary Lazar
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018

Vengeance is an artful, compulsively readable blend of autofiction, reportage, social commentary, and mystery writing. Readers are immediately swept up by the novel’s central question, “Is Kendrick King guilty?” even as the narrator keeps us in tune with the ironies, injustices, histories, and...

Sea Monsters

A Novel

by Chloe Aridjis
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019

"Chloe Aridjis’ Sea Monsters is easily her best novel. Strange, lyrical and filled with the dark wonder of youth, it is a sharp and mesmerizing book, with hints of Bolaño and Luiselli. A girl flees her happy Mexico City existence to the surreal beachside hangout of Zipolite, a zone replete...
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