Grove Press imprint: 1036 books

The Three Roosevelts

Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America

by James MacGregor Burns, Susan Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

An “immensely interesting” account of how Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor led the United States through some of its most turbulent decades (David McCullough).   The Three Roosevelts is the extraordinary political biography of the intertwining lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt,...
by Penelope Lively
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

Winner of the Man Booker Prize Penelope Lively won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for this deeply moving, elegantly structured novel. Elderly, uncompromising Claudia Hampton lies in a London hospital bed with memories of life fluttering through her fading consciousness. An author of popular history,...

Stet

An Editor's Life

by Diana Athill
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014

A New York Times Notable Book: This memoir of a career in book publishing “should please anyone who cares about twentieth-century literature” (The Washington Post Book World). For nearly five decades, Diana Athill edited (nursed, coerced, coaxed) some of the most celebrated writers in the...
by Alistair Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

A New York Times bestseller: This portrait of the United States at the beginning of World War II is “an unexpected and welcome discovery in a time capsule” (The Washington Post). In nearly three thousand BBC broadcasts over fifty-eight years, Alistair Cooke reported on America, illuminating...
by Deon Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012

A former assassin in post-apartheid South Africa is drawn back into his former profession in this “rip-roaring adventure” (The Washington Post). Six-foot five-inch Thobela “Tiny” Mpayipheli was once a feared freedom fighter, trained by the Stasi and KGB. Now, he’s a family man working...
by Michael Bamberger
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

Reflections on the game by the Sports lllustrated writer and national-bestselling author of The Swinger. Michael Bamberger has lived the game of golf as few others have—from his experience as one of the first white, college-educated caddies in 1985, to hanging out with Arnold Palmer at the...

In the Time of Madness

Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos

by Richard Lloyd Parry
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

From the acclaimed author of People Who Eat Darkness comes this “deeply felt” account of Indonesia at the crossroads of freedom and terror (Time, Asia). In the last years of the twentieth century, foreign correspondent Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia,...

Turning Japanese

Memoirs of a Sansei

by David Mura
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

Award-winning poet David Mura's critically acclaimed memoir Turning Japanese chronicles how a year in Japan transformed his sense of self and pulled into sharp focus his complicated inheritance. Mura is a sansei, a third-generation Japanese-American who grew up on baseball and hot dogs in a Chicago...
by Anne Enright
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

The second novel to be published in America by widely acclaimed Irish author Anne Enright, The Wig My Father Wore is a spry, hilarious novel about parents, love, religion, and the absurdities of them all. Grace is a young Dubliner who works on a television show called Love Quiz. Her father is going benignly...
by Samuel Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009

In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbable adventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master. Watt is a beautifully executed black...
by Jon A. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014

The explosive debut novel featuring hard-nosed cop “Fang” Mulheisen—from an author who “stands right up there with the best chroniclers of urban crime” (The New York Times).   The city of Detroit doesn’t have many places anyone would exactly call “nice.” But the exclusive enclave...

A Really Big Lunch

The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life

by Jim Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017

An essay collection from “the Henry Miller of food writing” and New York Times–bestselling author of The Raw and the Cooked (The Wall Street Journal). Jim Harrison was beloved for his untamed prose and larger-than-life appetite. Collecting many of his most entertaining and inspired food...

Driving Like Crazy

Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending: Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed to Be—With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Every Carport, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Mowing Our Lawn

by P. J. O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010

The #1 New York Times–bestselling humorist’s tribute to car travel is “a ride worth taking, even for readers who don’t know an oil pan from a frying pan” (The Washington Times). From a veteran of both Car and Driver and National Lampoon magazines, this hilarious book chronicles the...

How Asia Works

Success and Failure In the World's Most Dynamic Region

by Joe Studwell
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013

“A good read for anyone who wants to understand what actually determines whether a developing economy will succeed.” —Bill Gates, “Top 5 Books of the Year”   An Economist Best Book of the Year from a reporter who has spent two decades in the region, and who the Financial Times said “should...
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