Books published by Granta Books

A rousing and inclusive call to arms for anyone who would identify themselves as 'English' to fight against the forces of globalization.

'An urgent, riveting, fabulously entertaining road trip of a novel, Away grabs you by the throat from the first page to the last, breaks your heart and shakes all your senses awake' Emma Donoghue, author of The Rehearsal

An obese Russian hip-hop aficionado strives for love and a US visa in this exuberantly funny and tender book from one of America's most brilliant comic novelists.

'A new account of this critical time in medical history that is ... beautifully documented, highly informative ... [A] pleasure to read' Times Literary Supplement

An introduction to the thinkers who laid the basis of all Western philosophy.

Niccolo Machiavelli is one of the most influential modern political thinkers. This work argues that, far from being a justifier of political immorality, Machiavaelli was concerned instead with the best way to attain glory through political action and that his works were inspired by love of republican liberty.

'A compelling, devastating and furiously good book written with an honesty that few of us would risk' Zadie Smith

An insider capable of revealing his city's spirit and its reality, Ivan Vladisavic combines the eloquence of Jan Morris on Trieste with the precision of Henri Cartier-Bresson on Paris.

The critically acclaimed memoir of a search for silence that achieved a surprise success much noisier than its subject ...

'Twice a Stranger is a book that needed to be written, and Bruce Clark has achieved it superbly. Anyone with an interest in Greece or Turkey ought to read it' Daily Telegraph

'Gentle, subtle, absorbing ... the most complex and supple account of that much-discussed idea, "modern rural life", that I have ever read' Robert Macfarlane, author of Mountains of the Mind and The Wild Places

It's the summer of 1976 and Adrea is falling in love, while nursing the decrepit residents of Heron Close, a care home in Chalk Farm. This is the summer that sees Blue Oyster Cult and Supertramp superseded by Patti Smith and the Stranglers, and as the heat rises in and out of the Roundhouse, the lives of Heron Close's residents and carers are about to blister and burn.