Barker, Barnes, Hollinghurst, Ishiguro, Mitchell, Rushdie, Smith,
Tremain, Winterson: long before they were household names, they were
Granta Best of Young British Novelists. With each Young Novelist list
came new ways of witnessing the world, introductions to unforgettable
characters and mysterious and addictive voices. In 2013, thirty years
after the first collection, the magazine asked once again: which writers
are setting the bar for a new decade in British literature?