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  • - Film
    by Ian Jack
    £13.49

    Featuring John Fowles on the making of The French Lieutenant's Woman and DM Thomas on the not making of The White Hotel, Thomas Keneally on finding Schindler's list, Roger Lewis on Peter Sellers, Gaby Wood on Lana Turner, Pakaj Mishra in Bombay, Ian Jack on the Roxy, the Rialto, the Ritz and the Regal, and much much more.

  • - Over There: How America Sees The Rest Of The World
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    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?

  • - Europe: Strangers in the Land
    by Sigrid Rausing
    £10.99

    Published in book form four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding new fiction, poetry, reportage, memoir, photography and art.Granta 149: New Europe includes essays by Elif Shafak, UKON, Andrew Miller, Will Atkins, Lara Feigel, Katherine Angel, Michael Hofmann, Joseph Koerner, Tom McCarthy and many more. It harks back to the 1989 issue of the same name, themed around the response to the fall of the Berlin wall. Through the lenses of exile and migration, we ask ourselves what it means to be European now. Featuring a photoessay by Bruno Fert who steps inside the temporary homes of refugees in camps in Greece and France.

  • - Unlikely Ends, Fateful Escapes And The Fascism Of Flowers
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

  • - Modern Common Wind
    by William Boyd
    £13.49

    Britain's most prestigious literary magazine brings you prize-winning fiction, memoir, reportage, poetry and photography from around the world.From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now.

  • - Hidden Histories
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilisations: an issue of Granta that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked.

  • - Truth and Lies
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    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 over-developed imagination, making his book a shocking fraud? In a long investigation Elena Lappin has examined the evidence against him.

  • - Confessions Of A Middle-Aged Ecstacy-Eater
    by Ian Jack
    £8.99

    In this issue of Granta Magazine, a distinguished writer makes an anonynous confession and defends a habit: his son supplies him with ecstasy. Other contributions include Nicholas Shakespeare on discovering the evil of his ancestors, and works from Amanda Hopkinson and Andrew Brown.

  • - Music
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    Granta Magazine publishes the best of fiction, memoir, reportage and photography, only using work that has never been published before. Contributions include: Nik Cohn on "Bounce in New Orleans"; "Dr Feelgood" by Hugo Williams; Ian Jack on Kathleen Ferrier; and "Frank Sinatra" by Richard Williams.

  • - Bad Company
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    This edition is a fiction special and includes new short stories by Rachel Cusk, Edmund White and Jonathan Ley.

  • - Celebrity
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    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 Hillary; and the cannibal emperor of the Central African Republic.

  • - Membranes
    by Rana Dasgupta
    £11.99

  • - Jublilee
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    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.

  • - Country Life - Dispatches From What's Left Of It
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    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.

  • - Wish You Were Here
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    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.

  • - God's Own Countries
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    The politics of religion around the world

  • - On The Road Again - Where Travel Writing Went Next
    by Granta
    £22.49

    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.

  • - The Best Of Young American Novelists
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    Features the work by the twenty writers that Granta's judges - including novelists Edmund White and AM Homes - have selected as the most interesting young voices in American fiction.

  • - The Deep End
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    Contains writing from people whose experience of life suggests they have something to tell us about survival.

  • by Jason Cowley
    £22.49

  • - This Overheating World
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    Not so much the state we're in as the mess we're getting into. Reports and stories from the frontiers of climate change and environmental (and human) catastrophe.

  • - Australia
    by Ian Jack
    £13.49

    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. There are picture essays by Polly Borland and David Moore, and a novella by Ben Rice.

  • - What We Think Of America
    by Ian Jack
    £13.49

    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 worse.

  • - War Zones
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    Contains dispatches from the world of conflict, in the battlefield and in the home, including: James Buchan on Iran's nuclear weapons programme; Jasmina Tesanovic on the death squads of Serbia; Hugh Raffles on cricket-fighting in Shanghai; and fiction by Tahmima Anam and Edmund White.

  • - Loved Ones
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    Looks at the nature of love: it can be hard to love the people we should love; sometimes objects of affection are easier. This issue includes an account of a boyhood spent caring for a father with Parkinson's Disease ('Who are you?'), Jeremy Seabrook on the twin brother he hardly knew, and Sean Wilsey on his devotion to bicycles.

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