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Granta 98: The Deep End

Product Description: The secret enthusiasms that sustain us — bicycling, stamp collecting, butterfly hunting, gardening, absurd days with a golf club or finding a fishing rod: what writers do or dream of when not writing. Featuring new writings by Sean Wilsey, Thomas Lynch, and Luc Santé.

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9781929001286 | Granta Books, August 10, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The secret enthusiasms that sustain us — bicycling, stamp collecting, butterfly hunting, gardening, absurd days with a golf club or finding a fishing rod: what writers do or dream of when not writing.

9780903141949 | Gardners Books, July 2, 2007, cover price $17.95

Granta 97: Best of Young American Novelists II

Product Description: In 1996, Granta's first Best of Young American Novelists issue included Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen and Lorrie Moore. Who will match them in the new generation? This special issue features original work by the twenty-one writers under thirty-five who Granta’s judges (including novelists Edmund White and A...read more

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9781929001279 | Granta Books, April 20, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In 1996, Granta's first Best of Young American Novelists issue included Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen and Lorrie Moore.

Granta 97: The Best of Young American Novelists

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9780903141925 | Gardners Books, April 16, 2007, cover price $23.35

The Granta Book of Reportage

Featuring distinguished writers and reporters: John Simpson, James Fenton, Martha Gellhorn, Germaine Greer, Ryszard Kapuscinski, as well as talents Elana Lappin, Suketu Mehta and Wendell Steavenson, this book covers some of the signal events: the fall of Saigon, the end of apartheid in South Africa, the massacre in Tiananmen Square, and more.

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9781862078154 | 3 edition (Granta Books, February 1, 2007), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Collects twelve of the most significant pieces of eyewitness reports that have been published by the leading news journal, in a new edition that includes James Fenton's account on hitching a ride on a tank in Saigon, Martha Gellhorn's discussion of Panama City after the U.

9781862071933 | Granta Books, October 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This collection of journalism includes: John le Carre with the spy of the century in Switzerland; Ian Jack investigating the deaths on the Rock; John Simpson saving a soldier's life in Tiananmen Square; Martha Gellhorn in Panama City after the US invasion; Richard Rayner with the looters in Hollywood; and James Fenton hitching a ride on a tank in Saigon.

War Zones

Product Description: Dispatches from the world of conflict, in the battlefield and in the home. Featuring James Buchan on Iran’s nuclear weapons program and Jasmina Tesanovic on the death squads of Serbia, plus new fiction by Edmund White and a photo essay on Britain’s hidden military bases by Simon Norfolk and Neal Ascherson...read more

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9781929001262 | Granta Books, January 28, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Dispatches from the world of conflict, in the battlefield and in the home.

Granta 95: Loved Ones

Product Description: It can be hard to love the people we should love; sometimes objects of affection are easier. This issue features Jonathan Taylor’s frank and funny account of a boyhood spent caring for a father with Parkinson’s Disease (‘Who are you?’), and James Lasdun revisits Forest Lawns cemetery, inspiration for Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One...read more

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9781929001255 | Granta Books, October 10, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: It can be hard to love the people we should love; sometimes objects of affection are easier.

Granta: On the Road Again

Product Description: Featuring Jeremy Treglown following in the footsteps of V. S. Pritchett in Spain, Tim Parks on the joys and sorrows of commuting from Verona to Milan, and Christopher de Bellaigue tracking down the Armenians in Turkey. Plus Todd McEwen on Cary Grant’s trousers and new fiction by Ann Beattie, Tessa Hadley, and Jim Shepard...read more

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9781929001248 | Granta Books, August 3, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Featuring Jeremy Treglown following in the footsteps of V.

Granta 94: On the Road Again - Where Travel Writing Went Next

Features articles by: Tim Parks, on the joys of commuting from Verona to Milan every day; Christopher de Bellaigue, on tracking down the Armenians in Turkey; Jeremy Treglown, following in the footsteps of V. S. Pritchett in Spain; Jeremy Seabrook, on being separated from his twin; and, Todd McEwen, on Cary Grant's trousers.

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9780903141864 | Granta Books, July 14, 2006, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Features articles by: Tim Parks, on the joys of commuting from Verona to Milan every day; Christopher de Bellaigue, on tracking down the Armenians in Turkey; Jeremy Treglown, following in the footsteps of V.

Granta: God's Own Countries

Product Description: The politics of religion around the world, featuring John McGahern, A. L. Kennedy, Richard Mabey, Simon Gray, Geoff Dyer, Jackie Kay, Pankaj Mishra, Nell Freudenberger, and more on their personal experiences—close, baffling, acrimonious, or nonexistent— of the divine.

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9781929001231 | Granta Books, April 14, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The politics of religion around the world, featuring John McGahern, A.

Granta 93: God's Own Countries

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9780903141840 | Granta Books, April 3, 2006, cover price $17.95

Granta: The View from Africa

Product Description: This issue of Granta reveals what the Africans themselves think about their continent with its diverse cultures and classes among its many nations. Granta 92 includes new writing from such literary superstars as J.M. Coetzee, Zakes Mda, Emmanuel Dongala, and Tahar Ben Jelloun...read more

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9781929001224 | Granta Books, December 30, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This issue of Granta reveals what the Africans themselves think about their continent with its diverse cultures and classes among its many nations.

Granta 91: Wish You Were Here

Product Description: Granta 91 is about ordinary life in Africa now—without the gauze of sentiment or glare of media lights. Featuring new fiction from leading African writers, both established and new, including younger writers from the African diaspora such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Helon Habila...read more

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9781929001217 | Granta Books, October 10, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Granta 91 is about ordinary life in Africa now—without the gauze of sentiment or glare of media lights.

9780903141802 | Granta Books, October 3, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The author of the celebrated and widely-acclaimed The Smoking Diaries, returns to print, with a tender, affecting, and of course funny account of his friendship with Alan Bates, written as he waits in Barbados for Harold Pinter to turn up.

Granta 90: Country Life

Product Description: The secret enthusiasms that sustain us—butterfly hunting, bicycling, bird watching, absurd days with a golf club or a fishing rod: what writers do or dream of when they're not writing— are explored here. Features include Jim Lewis on the fine art of sleeping, the late Marshall Frady on his uncle's harmonica, Lemony Snicket on playing with toy soldiers, and more...read more

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9781929001200 | Granta Books, July 10, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The secret enthusiasms that sustain us—butterfly hunting, bicycling, bird watching, absurd days with a golf club or a fishing rod: what writers do or dream of when they're not writing— are explored here.

Granta 90: Country Life - Dispatches from What's Left of It

Country Life: how it is lived, how it has changed, and how the changes are far from over. An issue that ranges from English fox- hunters to the rice-planters of the Ganges delta.

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9780903141789 | Granta Books, July 7, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Country Life: how it is lived, how it has changed, and how the changes are far from over.

The Factory

Britain invented the factory - Manchester was the world's first factory city. Where are they now? The anser, mainly, is China. An issue devoted to how and where we made and make things, from strawberries in the fields of Herefordshire to the car plants of Korea.

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9780903141758 | Granta Books, April 1, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Britain invented the factory - Manchester was the world's first factory city.

Granta 88: Mothers

Product Description: Granta 88 features John McGahern on his mother's struggle for health and happiness in Catholic Ireland; Edmund White on his mother's battle with the girdle in Texas; Alexandra Fuller on bearing a child in Africa; and Paul Theroux on an American matriarchy.

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9781929001187 | Granta Books, February 28, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Granta 88 features John McGahern on his mother's struggle for health and happiness in Catholic Ireland; Edmund White on his mother's battle with the girdle in Texas; Alexandra Fuller on bearing a child in Africa; and Paul Theroux on an American matriarchy.

Mothers

Collection & anthologies of various literacy from John MCGahern on his mother's struggle for health & happiness in Catholic Ireland, Alexander Fuller on bearing a child in Africa, Ryszard Kapuscinski on his memories of the Second World War plus writings from Edmund White, Paul Theroux, Jim Lewis and others.

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9780903141734 | Granta Books, January 1, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Collection & anthologies of various literacy from John MCGahern on his mother's struggle for health & happiness in Catholic Ireland, Alexander Fuller on bearing a child in Africa, Ryszard Kapuscinski on his memories of the Second World War plus writings from Edmund White, Paul Theroux, Jim Lewis and others.

Jubilee

A celebration of Granta's first quarter century with new writing from the writers who made its reputation, including Martin Amis, Paul Auster, William Boyd, Amit Chaudhul, Richard Ford, James Hamilton-Paterson, Jan Morris, Blake Morrison, Jayne Anne Phillips, Paul Theroux and Edmund White.

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9780903141710 | Granta Books, October 1, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A celebration of Granta's first quarter century with new writing from the writers who made its reputation, including Martin Amis, Paul Auster, William Boyd, Amit Chaudhul, Richard Ford, James Hamilton-Paterson, Jan Morris, Blake Morrison, Jayne Anne Phillips, Paul Theroux and Edmund White.

Granta 87: Jubilee!

Product Description: Granta 87 is a special anniversary issue of the magazine. It features new writing from the writers who made its reputation, including Richard Ford, Martin Amis, Amit Chaudhuri, Julian Barnes, Blake Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, and others.

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9781929001170 | 25 anv edition (Granta Books, September 30, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Granta 87 is a special anniversary issue of the magazine.

Granta 86: Film

Product Description: Granta goes to the movies. This issue includes Thomas Keneally on finding Schindler's List, Roger Lewis on Peter Sellers, Pankaj Mishra in Bombay, Ian Jack on the Roxy, the Rialto, the Ritz and the Regal, Andrew O'Hagan on his years as a movie critic, and the stories of the people who fell from stardom in Hollywood...read more

By Diana Athill (contributor), Sophie Harrison (contributor), Ian Jack (editor), Gail Lynch (contributor), Blake Morrison (contributor), Andrew O'Hagan (contributor), John Ryle (contributor), Sukhdev Sandhu (contributor) and Lucretia Stewart (contributor)

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9781929001163 | Granta Books, August 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Granta goes to the movies.

The Poetical Works of Robert Browning

Product Description: Volume II contains Stafford, a play seldom reprinted, and Sordello, a poem commonly, but mistakenly, neglected as "unintelligible." The book looks at Browning's correspondence with Emily Hickey, the first editor of Strafford, and important copies of Sordello that help to shed light on Browning's attempts to revise the poem...read more

By Ian Jack and Margaret Smith

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9780198123170 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 28, 1984, cover price $340.00 | About this edition: Volume II contains Stafford, a play seldom reprinted, and Sordello, a poem commonly, but mistakenly, neglected as "unintelligible.

9780198118930 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 4, 1983, cover price $275.00 | About this edition: Volume I provides the first and final texts of Pauline carefully annotated with emphasis on the literary background of the poem rather than its supposedly authobiographical reference.

Hidden Histories: Granta 85, Spring 2004

Product Description: Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilizations are offered in Granta 85—an issue that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war. With Diana Athill on losing her baby, Amit Chaudhuri on the Indian tailor who became the face of a riot, Giles Foden on the origins of "The African Queen," plus new fiction by T...read more

By Fatema Ahmed (editor), Diana Athill (contributor), T. Coraghessan Boyle, Giles Foden, Helen Gordon (editor), Sophie Harrison (contributor), Ian Jack (editor), Liz Jobey (editor), Gail Lynch (contributor), Blake Morrison (contributor), Orhan Pamuk and Matt Weiland (editor)

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9781929001156 | Granta Books, May 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilizations are offered in Granta 85—an issue that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war.

Over There: How America Sees the Rest of the World

Granta magazine's 71st issue, 'What We Think of America', was a prescient reflection of the USA's deepening political unpopularity among people outside its own borders. But what do Americans themselves think of their country's new imperialism - and of the world it rules?

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9780903141642 | Granta Books, January 15, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Granta magazine's 71st issue, 'What We Think of America', was a prescient reflection of the USA's deepening political unpopularity among people outside its own borders.

Granta 84: Over There : How America Sees the World : Winter 2003

Product Description: The USA is the world¹s newest, greatest, and only empire. Some would say it is the world¹s most insular state as well as the most powerful, never troubling to correct its ignorance of the people and places beyond its borders. Is it a slander? In this issue of Granta, American writers describe their encounters abroad and how they were affected by them...read more

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9781929001149 | Granta Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The USA is the world¹s newest, greatest, and only empire.

This Overheating World

Product Description: The world we were born into has gone. We shall never completely recapture its climate, its seasons, the way its plants grew and its animals lived. This is not a wild-eyed prediction, a man on the street with a placard ("THE END IS NIGH")...read more

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9781929001132 | Granta Books, September 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The world we were born into has gone.

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