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By: Hiroko Oyamada

ISBN: 9781803510538
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2023
Publisher: Granta Books
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From the author of Weasels in the Attic, here is a modern fable about the all-consuming world of work.


(Hardback)

By: A. K. Blakemore

ISBN: 9781783789191
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 21st September 2023
Publisher: Granta Books
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One man with an insatiable hunger: a novel of desire and destruction in Revolutionary France, based on a true story, from the Desmond Elliott Prize-winning author of The Manningtree Witches.


(Paperback)

By: Richard Holloway

ISBN: 9781783780266
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Granta Books
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A brilliant and perceptive reading of an beloved, contentious and remarkable holy book.


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By: Ian Jack

ISBN: 9781862077843
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Granta Books
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The Granta Book of India brings together, for the first time, classic pieces from previous editions of Granta magazine on the experiences of Indian life, culture and politics.


(Paperback)

By: Ian Jack

ISBN: 9781862078154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2006
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2006
Publisher: Granta Books
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A new edition of The Granta Book of Reportage featuring distinguished writers and reporters - John Simpson, James Fenton, Martha Gellhorn, Germaine Greer, Ryszard Kapuscinski - this book covers some of the signal events of our time.


By: Richard Ford

ISBN: 9781862072770
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1999
Publisher: Granta Books
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'At their best, these tales provide the intensity of a short story with the elaboration of a novel ... Ford has cast a wide net and given new life to stories that deserve to emerge from obscurity' San Diego Union-Tribune


(Paperback)

By: Richard Ford

ISBN: 9781847080400
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
Publisher: Granta Books
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Companion volume to The Granta Book of the American Short Story: Volume 1.


(Hardback)

By: Jonathan Lee

ISBN: 9781783786244
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Granta Books
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Set at the turn of the 20th century, the story of the father of New York City, his mysterious assassination and his hidden life, for fans of Golden Hill and Kavalier and Clay.


By: Christopher Petit

ISBN: 9781862075290
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2002
Publisher: Granta Books
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In this powerful evocation of the grey avenues and suburbs of Irish London at their most hopeless, O'Grady comes home from jail at the height of Thatcherism ...


(Paperback)

By: D.D. Guttenplan

ISBN: 9781862074866
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Publisher: Granta Books
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David Irving is a leading Holocaust revisionist. He sued Penguin Books for libel claiming he had been falsely labelled a Holocaust denier. The trial was one of the strangest to take place in an English court: the judge had to give a verdict on history.


By: Mark Crick

ISBN: 9781847082527
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: Granta Books
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Like Mrs Beeton, but with metaphors! A bumper omnibus edition of Mark Crick's three sparklingly funny books of literary pastiche.


(Paperback)

By: Herta Mller

ISBN: 9781846272783
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Granta Books
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A masterful new novel from the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize, hailed for depicting the 'landscape of the dispossessed' with 'the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose' (Nobel Prize Committee).


(Paperback)

By: F.M. Dostoevsky

ISBN: 9781862075931
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2003
Publisher: Granta Books
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A fresh edition of a classic by award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky


By: Neal Ascherson

ISBN: 9781862072909
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1999
Publisher: Granta Books
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It is the aim of this text to describe Leopold II without prejudice. The text presents many aspects of his life: as a most ruthless negotiator; as the cold father; and as the sensual ancient riding his tricycle at Vilefranche-sur-Mer to pedal round to the villa of a young mistress.


(Paperback, Main)

By: Tony D'Souza

ISBN: 9781846271304
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: Granta Books
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Francisco D'Sai is the firstborn son of a firstborn son - the latest in a long line of proud Konkans stretching back for centuries. Since he was old enough to hear the tales of his noble forebears, Francisco has known what it meant to be a Konkan in India. But what does it mean to be a Konkan in Illinois


(Paperback)

By: Sudhir Hazareesingh

ISBN: 9781862077898
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2005
Publisher: Granta Books
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Drawing on archival research, the author traces the emergence of the Napoleonic myth and how it developed into a potent political culture. This book is a study of why the fascination with Napoleon has endured for two centuries.


By: Michael Collins

ISBN: 9781862077782
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
Publisher: Granta Books
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Once they were portrayed as the salt of the earth. Nowadays, they take to the streets when paedophiles and asylum seekers are in their midst; they expose their lives in TV documentaries; they love Gucci and hate the Euro. The Likes of Us is a defence of the white working class in the face of such caricatures.


(Paperback)

By: Dimitri Verhulst

ISBN: 9781846271595
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: Granta Books
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Frank, tender, and brutally funny, this is a comic and entertaining story about a boy growing up in a family of desperate alcoholics.


By: Leonardo Sciascia

ISBN: 9781847089298
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2014
Publisher: Granta Books
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A penetrating and uncompromising account one of the greatest scandals in modern Italian politics - the kidnap and murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro.


(Paperback)

By: Julian Baggini

ISBN: 9781847081285
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: Granta Books
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The Granta backlist classic: a collection of short, accessible philosophical quandaries to stimulate, challenge and entertain!


By: Madeleine Bunting

ISBN: 9781847081445
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2010
Publisher: Granta Books
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'Madeleine Bunting's multidimensional chronicle is among the very best pieces of non-fiction to have been published in a long while about what it is like to be English' Simon Schama, Financial Times


(Hardback, Main)

By: Laura Alcoba

ISBN: 9781846271328
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: Granta Books
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Presents an account of growing up under a dictatorship, depicting a world hedged in by secrecy and the danger of discovery, where bonds of trust are forged and then violently betrayed.


(Paperback)

By: Rebecca Rukeyser

ISBN: 9781783786060
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Granta Books
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A razor-sharp debut about desire, artifice and dissolution on a remote homestead in Alaska, for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh, Nell Zink and Miranda July.


By: Ivan Klima

ISBN: 9781862071025
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2000
Publisher: Granta Books
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A collection of essays charting five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia, including the Nazi occupation, the Stalinist regimes of the 1950s, the celebrations of the Prague Spring, the 1968 Soviet invasion, Charter 77, and the Velvet Revolution of 1989.

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