Granta Books imprint: 105 books
Dope Girls
The Birth Of The British Drug Underground
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
A drug panic. Murder. Terrifying and mysterious black and Chinese immigrants. Dope Kings. Jazz. War. An actress dead of an overdose. Dope Girls is about the transformation of drug use into a national menace. It revolves around the death in 1918, in the last furious stages of the First World War, of...
by Geoffrey Beattie
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Geoffrey Beattie grew up in the notorious 'murder triangle' in North Belfast, where during thirty years of the Troubles more than six hundred people were killed. Many of his childhood friends ended up dead or in prison, while Beattie himself moved to England, at first to study and eventually to build...
Welcome To Everytown
A Journey Into The English Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
What do the English think? Every country has a dominant set of beliefs and attitudes concerning everything from how to live a good life, how we should organize society, and the roles of the sexes. Yet despite many attempts to define our national character, what might be called the nation's philosophy...
by Linda Grant
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
At the beginning of the 1990s, Linda Grant’s mother, Rose, was diagnosed with Dementia. In Remind Me Who I Am, Again Linda Grant tells the story of Rose’s illness and tries to reconstruct the history of their Jewish immigrant family, stalking them from Russia and Poland to New York and London....
The Settler's Cookbook
A Memoir Of Love, Migration And Food
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Through the personal story of Yasmin's family and the food and recipes they've shared together, The Settler's Cookbooktells the history of Indian migration to the UK via East Africa. Her family was part of the mass exodus from India to East Africa during the height of British imperial expansion, fleeing...
by Philip Carr-Gomm
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Druidism evolved out of the tribal cultures of Britain, Ireland and western France over two thousand years ago. In the seventeenth century it experienced a revival, which has continued to this day. Contemporary Druids can now be found all over the world, and Druidry's appeal lies in its focus on a...
by Colin Shindler
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Zionism was a movement of national liberation. It sought to establish a permanent home for the Jewish people where they could attain political independence and instigate a national renaissance. Some Zionists were inspired by a vision of religious redemption and the onset of the messianic age. For...
Looking For Enid
The Mysterious And Inventive Life Of Enid Blyton
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
This is a strikingly inventive and unusual portrait of the most successful English writer for children (until J. K. Rowling), Enid Blyton, who entertained millions worldwide with her myriad adventure stories and mysteries but was herself both an adventure and a mystery. This book is for everyone who...
Holy Warriors
A Journey Into The Heart Of Indian Fundamentalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Home to all the major religions, India is also, inevitably, host to virtually every type of religious fanatic. No other nation has witnessed as much proselytizing or heard as many war cries in the name of God as India. For centuries, Hindus, Christians, Sikhs and Muslims have waged bloody wars, sought...
Kolyma Diaries
A Journey into Russia’s Haunted Hinterland
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
From the author of the award-winning White Fever, Kolyma Diaries is an excursion into one of the world's last remaining badlands, a place full of Gulag ghosts and living wrecks. All along the 2000 kilometres of the Kolyma highway, Bader is plied with vodka. He hears mesmerizing, sometimes devastating,...
by Barry Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
The Egyptians created a world of supernatural forces so vivid, powerful and inescapable that controlling one's destiny within it was a constant preoccupation. In life, supernatural forces manifested themselves through misfortune and illness,and after death were faced for eternity in the Otherworld,...
Comrade Pavlik
The Rise And Fall Of A Soviet Boy Hero
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
It was September, 1932. Gerasimovka, Western Siberia. Two children are found dead in the forest outside a remote village. Both have been repeatedly stabbed and their bloody bodies are covered in sticky, crimson cranberry juice. Who committed these horrific murders has never been proved, but the elder...
by Simon Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
'Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.' David Hume
David Hume is generally recognized as the United Kingdom's greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and essayist and a central figure of the Enlightenment. Yet his work is delicately poised between scepticism...
An Inconvenient Youth
Julius Malema and the 'new' ANC
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Julius Malema has risen to prominence and power with meteoric speed. From impoverished origins in a Limpopo township, he has, before the age of 30, amassed the political and economic power to command the entire youth wing of the ANC, and to own several substantial luxury homes. The sources of his...