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Ian Jack
The story is one of confrontation against evil, with courage and skill. In this story there is, usually, a clear delineation between good and evil, and the story is meant…
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Janet Malcolm
In 1979, a journalist met a murderer, MacDonald, and decided to write the story of his crime, claiming that it would work in his defence. However, the resulting story was…
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Ian McEwan
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This magical children's story follows Sophie and Tom, two adventurous siblings, who are unexpectedly whisked away to the North Pole. Their journey begins when an innocent sleigh ride takes…
Ian McGuire
A 19th-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp and highly original novel, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016
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The world’s most complicated nation is learning ways to describe itself. The novel and the outsider’s eye no longer rule.
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A selection from over twenty years of reporting and writing that sets out to deal with Britain - from national disasters to football matches to obesity.
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It can be hard to love the people we should love; sometimes objects of affection are easier
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Recommended for anyone with even a passing interest in humanity. – British Journal of General Practice. This issue of Granta is dedicated to love, or more often the lack of…
This issue of ‘Granta’ contains fresh voices from Africa, in all their differences, as well as memoir and reportage which reflect the past and present of its people. Included are…
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.
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…
Granta goes to the movies
John Litchfield on how the French election exposed a national identity crisis.
Over the past two decades India has produced a dazzling variety of new writing in English. ‘India Calling’ showcases some of this talent, Amit Chaudhuri and Arundhati Roy, alongside contributions…
This collection of essays features the theme of what people wanted as children. The contributing writers include: Doris Lessing, Paul Auster, Brian MacKinnon and Nell Stroud. There are also pieces…
This issue takes a wayward look at the lives of beasts. A dog prepares for the death of his master; a movie-going tarantula has a crush on Nicole Kidman; and…
In this issue of Granta Magazine, the theme is the sea and our relationship with it. It includes pieces by: James Hamilton-Paterson, on a lonely death in the Pacific; Julia…
In this edition of the Granta magazine, Richard Lloyd Parry reports on the savage civil war taking place in Indonesia and Nicholas Shakespeare writes on Martha Gelhorn and why she…
This issue on Russia explores how an old country is finding new ways to think and write. As well as fiction by Russian writers, there is a report on a…
In 1996 Benjamin Wilkomirski published his powerful account of a childhood spent in Hitler’s death-camps. But was it true? Is the truth that he was a Swiss boy with an…
This issue reflects a variety of the extreme individual experience provided by the 20th century. James Hamilton-Paterson recounts his rape by five men in Libya; Marlon Brando reveals the stupidities…
In 1966, the South African premier, Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed to death in the South African parliament. Who was the killer and what was his motives? A political enemy of…
This issue of Granta celebrates Australian writing and examines a country which is forging a strong new identity. The contributors include Peter Carey, Thomas Keneally, Les Murray and Tim Winton…
This issue examines the experience from the patient’s couch and the psychiatrist’s chair, in both fiction and non-fiction. The contributors include Elliot Perlman, Patrick McGrath, Edmund White and Ved Mehta.
There was always the - is this it? - issue. It made him think of his father again. His father had been a New Yorker and had New Yorker ways…
Some travel is vital to the traveller. Sometimes you need to get home or get away. Sometimes this is far from easy. This issue of Granta contains compelling stories about…
How do you cope with the great, if you yourself are not so great? Do you speak, do you listen, in the face of every difficulty do you try to…
In this issue, writers from across the world describe how America has affected them - culturally, politically, economically, as citizens, as writers, as children and as adults, for better or…
With contributions from Robyn Davidson, Nik Cohn, Hugo Williams and many more.
This edition is a fiction special and includes new short stories by Rachel Cusk, Edmund White and Jonathan Ley.
This edition centres around celebrity, both good and bad. Contributions include: the search for Hitler’s doctor; an Irish republican looks at the Queen Kyle Stone; how Hillary Clinton’s home views…
Everybody has been a reluctant or willing member of one: the family, the school, the football side, the quiz team, the once-faithful friends who met in a bar every Friday…
Not so much the state we’re in as the mess we’re getting into.
Reportage, fiction and opinion from outsiders in America, and Americans on themselves.
Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilisations: an issue of Granta that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war.
Marking the 25th anniversary of Granta magazine, Granta 87: Jubilee features new work by the writers who made it’s name.
Granta celebrates mothers.
‘Quite simply, the most impressive literary magazine of its time.’ - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Country Life: how it is lived, how it has changed, and how the changes are far from over
Another fine anthology: Simon Gray on the life and death of Alan Bates, plus The Weather Where We Are featuring Margaret Atwood, Tom Keneally, James Hamilton Paterson and many others
The politics of religion around the world
Dispatches from the world of conflict, on the battlefield and off of it.
Who will be the great American novelists of the future?
This issue of Granta contains writing from people whose experience of life, sometimes in departed worlds, suggests they have something to tell us about survival.
A celebrated writer makes an anonymous confession and defends a habit: his son supplies him with Ecstasy. Other contributors include Nicholas Shakespeare on the evil of his ancestors, David Feuer…
In this fascinating and illuminating book Ian Jack has chosen six major poets - Dryden, Pope, Byron, Shelley, Tennyson, and Yeats - and has traced the career of each to…
