(Paperback)
By: Rose George
ISBN: 9781846272998
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Granta Books
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An unprecedented voyage through the shady world of international shipping, the hidden industry upon which our world turns and our future depends.
(Paperback)
By: Jenny Offill
ISBN: 9781783789344
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 17th August 2023
Publisher: Granta Books
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Included in the BEST OF GRANTA launch list for 2023: critically acclaimed and widely adored, Dept. of Speculation is an electrifying, funny and wise account of a couple falling out of one another's orbit.
(Paperback)
By: Dr Marek Kohn
ISBN: 9781803511634
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2024
Publisher: Granta Books
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Now a major BBC TV series: a tour through the seedier side of Britain between the wars, and the moral panic that led to the criminalisation of drugs - reissued with added material.
(Paperback)
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
ISBN: 9781803512532
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 13th February 2025
Publisher: Granta Books
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From the author of Kairos, winner of the International Booker Prize: one of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue.
(Paperback)
By: Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 9781847087317
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2013
Publisher: Granta Books
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A funny and tender celebration of love in all its frailty, confusion and excess, from the author of Oranges are not the Only Fruit and Why be Happy When you Could be Normal
(Paperback)
By: John Kaag
ISBN: 9781783784950
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2020
Publisher: Granta Books
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A man goes in search of himself in the Swiss Alps with the help of Nietzsche.
(Paperback)
By: Julian Baggini
ISBN: 9781783782307
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2019
Publisher: Granta Books
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The first ever global overview of philosophy: how it developed around the world and impacted the cultures in which it flourished, now in paperback.
(Paperback)
By: Slavoj Zizek
ISBN: 9781862078949
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2006
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2006
Publisher: Granta Books
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Is psychoanalysis dead or are we to read frequent attacks on its theoretical 'mistakes' and clinical 'frauds' as a proof of its vitality
(Paperback)
By: Julian Baggini
ISBN: 9781783788538
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2024
Publisher: Granta Books
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The key principles for a more humane and balanced approach to thinking, to politics and to life, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks.
(Paperback)
By: Yasemin ongar
ISBN: 9781783785155
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2019
Publisher: Granta Books
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From the confines of his prison cell in Istanbul, one of Turkey's greatest living novelists reflects upon hope, despair and the light literature can bring to even the darkest places.
(Paperback)
By: Sheena Patel
ISBN: 9781783789818
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2023
Publisher: Granta Books
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An exhilarating, addictive take on obsession, race, gender and power dynamics through the lens of a corrosive relationship
(Paperback)
By: Richard J. Evans
ISBN: 9781783784592
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2018
Publisher: Granta Books
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The classic explanation of the craft of history and the vital worth of historians to civilization -- more relevant than ever in the post-fact world.
(Hardback)
By: Hattie Crisell
ISBN: 9781803510637
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Granta Books
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Based on Crisell's popular podcast of the same name, here is an inspiring and fascinating glimpse into the creative process - with some of our best-loved contemporary writers
(Paperback)
By: Elizabeth Pisani
ISBN: 9781847086556
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2015
Publisher: Granta Books
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A compelling, entertaining and fascinating journey through one of the world's largest, most dynamic and most contradictory countries.
(Paperback)
By: Sandra Newman
ISBN: 9781783789160
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2024
Publisher: Granta Books
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Julia is a bold feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four that goes beyond Winston Smith's story to finally reveal what life in Oceania was like for women
(Paperback)
By: Polly Gannon
ISBN: 9781783788057
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2021
Publisher: Granta Books
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An intense and dramatic reimagining of a plague outbreak in 1930s Moscow invites parallels with our pandemic-stricken times.
(Paperback)
By: Ben Lerner
ISBN: 9781847086914
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Granta Books
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Veering between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a dazzling introduction to one of the smartest, funniest and most audacious writers of a generation.
(Paperback)
By: Sayaka Murata
ISBN: 9781783787388
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2023
Publisher: Granta Books
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Radical, untamed, always unexpected: a thrilling, can't-look-away collection of stories from the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon Convenience Store Woman
(Paperback)
By: Craig Taylor
ISBN: 9781847083296
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2012
Publisher: Granta Books
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An extraordinary group portrait of London today: a book as rich, dynamic, lively, and diverse as the city itself.
(Paperback)
By: Frans de Waal
ISBN: 9781783784110
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2020
Publisher: Granta Books
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A groundbreaking, approachable book on the role of emotions in animal and human societies, from the world-renowned primatologist and author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are
(Paperback)
By: Rebecca Solnit
ISBN: 9781803512341
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2025
Publisher: Granta Books
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Published as a standalone on International Woman's Day, the essay that became a touchstone of the feminist movement and inspired the term 'mansplaining', with an afterword on its origins.
(Paperback)
By: Rebecca Solnit
ISBN: 9781803510071
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 17th August 2023
Publisher: Granta Books
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Included in the BEST OF GRANTA launch list for 2023: a collection of the landmark, incendiary essays that established Rebecca Solnit as one of the leading feminist writers working today.
(Hardback)
By: Rebecca Solnit
ISBN: 9781783780792
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2014
Publisher: Granta Books
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A collection of essays on feminism, from one of the most important and original public intellectuals writing today.
(Paperback)
By: Joan Didion
ISBN: 9781783785247
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2019
Publisher: Granta Books
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A surprising portrait of the pastel city, a masterly study of Cuban immigration and exile, and a sly account of vile moments in the Cold War from one of the most significant writers of the modern era.
