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By: Leonardo Sciascia

ISBN: 9781862075221
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2002
Publisher: Granta Books
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On March 16 1978, Also Moro, former Italian Prime Minister, was ambushed in Rome by the Red Brigades. Seven weeks later Moro's body was discovered in the boot of a Renault parked in the crowded centre of Rome. In this book, Leonardo Sciasica untangles the real-life events of these crucial weeks.


(Paperback)

By: Robert Macfarlane

ISBN: 9781783784509
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Granta Books
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A new cover edition of this bestselling classic of nature writing.


(Hardback)

By: Patrick Mackie

ISBN: 9781783785995
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Granta Books
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The music and life of one of modernity's most prevalent figures through the compositions that shaped him, from a dazzling new writer of non-fiction.


By: Chang-rae Lee

ISBN: 9781862071148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1998
Publisher: Granta Books
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A story about a Korean detective in New York. It is a novel about the immigrant experience, about love, loyalty and the languages that define us.


(Paperback)

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

ISBN: 9781783784912
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Granta Books
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By: Rudiger Safranski

ISBN: 9781862075955
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2003
Publisher: Granta Books
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Nietzsche is one of the most controversial philosophers of the modern age. Here, Safranski positions the details of Nietzsche's unhappy life within the context of his thought, looking at Nietzsche's boyhood obsession with music, his time in the army, his friendship with Wagner and his unrequited love for Lou Andreas Salome.


(Paperback)

By: Fergus Fleming

ISBN: 9781862075351
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2002
Publisher: Granta Books
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'Barrow's Boys, Fergus Fleming's history of British exploration in the first half of the nineteenth century was an excellent book. Ninety Degrees North ... is an even better one' Sunday Telegraph


(Hardback)

By: Ben Lerner

ISBN: 9781783782741
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2016
Publisher: Granta Books
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From the author of the bestselling novels Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04, here is a dazzling collection of award-winning poetry - available for the first time to readers beyond the US.


(Paperback)

By: Anouchka Grose

ISBN: 9781846271885
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Granta Books
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From the first flirtatious text message to dodging insults in the divorce courts, via swooning, stalking, and swearing undying devotion, this cheerful book about the horrors of love explains why the romantic idea of falling in love (and staying in love for ever) continues to seduce us, even in the face of all experience.


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By: Jenny Erpenbeck

ISBN: 9781783786091
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Granta Books
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A collection of intimate and explosive essays on literature, life, history, politics and place from the award-winning author of Go, Went, Gone and The End of Days.


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By: Josh Cohen

ISBN: 9781783782055
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Granta Books
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How inactivity works - and how it can be a necessary and creative condition for a life worth living.


By: J.Robert Lennon

ISBN: 9781862074996
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2002
Publisher: Granta Books
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A beautifully written story about a man who reluctantly accepts his birthright in a sheep-ranching family torn apart by tragedy.


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By: Rebecca Solnit

ISBN: 9781783785452
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Granta Books
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Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world.


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By: Mariana Enriquez

ISBN: 9781783786732
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Granta Books
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A damaged father battles to save his son from the sinister cult he is destined to serve - from cult sensation Mariana Enriquez, author of the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed.


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By: Mariana Enriquez

ISBN: 9781783789351
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Granta Books
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A damaged father battles to save his son from the sinister cult he is destined to serve, in this emotionallypowerful, thrillingly paced gothic road trip, from theauthor of the International Booker Prize-shortlistedThe Dangers of Smoking in Bed.


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By: Edward W. Said

ISBN: 9781862073708
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
UK Publication Date: 21st September 2000
Publisher: Granta Books
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A profoundly moving and candid memoir about being a Palestinian in exile, from one of the most important writers and thinkers of the twentieth century.


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By: Hiromi Kawakami

ISBN: 9781846276989
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Granta Books
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From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes a collection of playful, delightful, delectable Japanese micro-fiction.


(Paperback)

By: Gina Ochsner

ISBN: 9781846270086
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
Publisher: Granta Books
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From the Russian couple haunted by the ghosts of children they never had, to the man who buys a mynah bird in the hope of saving his marriage, People I Wanted To Be is concerned with people who feel that their lives are loose skins they've not quite grown into and perhaps won't ever fit.


By: Robert Sullivan

ISBN: 9781862078185
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Publisher: Granta Books
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'Sullivan's account of a year spent watching rats in a New York alley exerts the pull of the macabre ... fascinating' Independent on Sunday


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By: Paul Kingsnorth

ISBN: 9781846270413
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: Granta Books
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We see the signs around us every day, the chain cafes and mobile phone outlets that dominate high streets and the headlines about yet another traditional industry going to the wall. This book makes the connection between these isolated, incremental, local changes and the bigger picture of a nation whose identity is being eroded.


(Hardback)

By: Rebecca Solnit

ISBN: 9781783785445
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Granta Books
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A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me: an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent.


By: Joseph Roth

ISBN: 9781862072558
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1999
Publisher: Granta Books
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Set in the 1920s, this novel charts the rivalry of the two sons of a wealthy banker, one of them a Nazi. It evokes the atmosphere of Berlin in the years before the rise of Nazism, when its society was on the brink of disintegration.


By: Christopher Petit

ISBN: 9781862074637
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: Granta Books
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Robinson is a persuader. He uses his voice to win and manipulate, and the narrator of this novel knows he would still fall for Robinson's charm. It led him into the night-world of Soho, of seedy pubs, sexual fantasies, violence and betrayal.


By: Michelle Huneven

ISBN: 9781862071483
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1998
Publisher: Granta Books
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Set in the earthquake-prone citrus groves of a Californian valley where nothing ever goes quite according to plan, this is the story of the search for equilibrium, even for happiness, against the odds of all-too-human weakness.

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