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The British Council's annual anthology of new writing showcases the best in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from writers in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Commonwealth. This new selection has been chosen by the novelists Bernardine Evaristo ("The Emperor's Babe") and Maggie Gee ("The White Family, " shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction). The last volume included Kirsty Gunn, Michel Faber, Marina Warner, Romesh Gunesekera, Hermio...

In December 2005 London lost one its most famous symbols: the Routemaster bus - a bus designed and made in London, by Londoners for Londoners, which was to London what the gondola is to Venice. In terms of postcards, books, films, and cheap souvenirs, and in the eyes of the world, the Routemaster represented the city just as much as Big Ben. It was the last bus to be have conductors as well as drivers, the last bus to ring familiar shouts that...

A scintillating, sobering and triumphant memoir of peril, trickery and survival from the magnificent Roman Halter, painter, architect, craftsman in iron and stained glass, and doggedly positive, charismatic educator who wanted to ensure that the young know the truth of what happened to the Jews in Europe once the Nazis took control.

It is October 1918 and London is gathering in its dead. For Henry Speake, of Speake and Son Undertakers, laying to rest the bodies of those sent home from the Front to die has become a grimly familiar duty. But what he is seeing now is something different, for the first time in his life, Henry feels afraid of death.

Hans Georg-Behr's remarkable account of a childhood spent in Nazi Austria is a powerful indictment of the toll that war takes on children, whichever side they find themselves on. To a five-year-old boy, having a high ranking Nazi for a father means trying to come to terms with a bizarre family - his kindly, liberal grandparents whose estate provides wartime refuge for all manner of unlikely visitors, his cold-hearted mother, once a famous oper...

Turkey is a country in a state of flux. In the last few years, far-reaching political and economic reforms have swept away much of the old order that ruled the country for so long. Pressure for change has come from ordinary people, it has also been motivated by the dominant issue of Turkish political life--the long pursuit of membership in the European Union. And yet Turkey remains a mystery to many outsiders, a complex country hard to fathom:...

To what extent does our social existence determine who we are? What is the meaning of sexuality for human existence? What is the meaning of 'old age'? What is a woman? And what, for that matter, is a man? Stella Sandford explores the philosophical basis of Beauvoir's reflections on these and other questions, from her early moral period, through her post-war philosophical crisis, to the astounding polymathic studies of her mature thought. She d...

Jean-Paul Sartre is best known as the preeminent philosopher of individual freedom. He is the one who told us that we are totally free. Robert Bernasconi shows how the early existentialist Sartre became the political champion of the oppressed. Extracts are drawn from the full range of Sartre's writings: the novel Nausea, the drama No Exit, the political essay Communists and Peace, as well as the major philosophical texts, Being and Nothingness...

Astrology, the notion that the stars and planets hold significance for human life, exists in most cultures. It is evident in Stone Age lunar calendars dating back to 30, 000 BCE. Today, ninety percent of Indians consult astrologers about their forthcoming marriages while over fifty percent of people in the West read their horoscopes in newspapers or magazines. How has this pre-Christian, pre-scientific view of the cosmos survived to the presen...

Existentialism is not a unified doctrine or belief in any conventional sense. It breaks ranks with all previous philosophy, unsettles orthodox religion, and questions the supremacy of science. However, the question it poses is of fundamental importance to us all: What on earth am I to make of my existence? In this lively and provocative new introduction to Existentialism, Richard Appignanesi challenges the reader to take part in a series of 't...

Greens are driven by a concern with the fate of future generations and the natural world on which we all depend. They argue that theirs is the only way of ensuring the survival of a sustainable planet. The case they make is powerful, emotive, urgent and politically controversial. In the space of a couple of decades, Greens have shaped an influential movement. Issues such as climate change and biodiversity loss are now familiar and widely accep...

Judaism is not simply a series of beliefs. It is a practice and a way of life. WHAT DO JEWS BELIEVE? explores the variety of ways Jews live their lives: religious and secular, Ashkenazi and Sephardi, Jews in Israel and Jews who live in the Diaspora. It asks what Judaism means and what it means to be a Jew. It also asks how and why such a small number of people, totalling no more than twenty million worldwide, have played such a significant rol...

T. Coraghessan Boyle is regarded as one of America's greatest living short-story writers. This publication brings together all his stories into one volume.

First published by Granta in 1992, it became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century - an "exemplary choice" in the words of the Washington Post - with stories by writers such as Eudora Welty, John Cheever and Raymond Carver (and forty others) demonstrating how much memorable power can lie in the briefest narration. Along with THE GRANTA BOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY: VOLUME2, thi...

A brand new collection of American short stories, including pieces by Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, Sherman Alexie, Junot Diaz, Deborah Eisenberg and Nell Freudenberg. Published to critical acclaim in hardback last year, it's an essential companion volume to the first collection, which is also reissued this month. Edited by the award-winning author of "Independence Day" and "The Lay Of The Land".

As long as people have been writing, they have been writing about nature. But nature - as we know it - is changing. Instead of providing a respite from the urban landscape, the natural world now reflects our mistakes. As our conception and experience of nature changes, so too does the way we write about it. GRANTA 102 will be a seminal collection, addressing lost worlds, vanishing species and the popularisation of man-made art intended to repl...

Asks why virginity has remained so important in western civilization and looks at the changing roles of virginity over the last 800 years, from medieval saints to contemporary vampire-slayers.

A clear-eyed portrait of a pioneering archaeologist and aerial photographer who taught us to read the British landscape.

A gripping and surprisingly entertaining account of the waste, fraud and jaw-dropping arrogance of the Aids industry ... It's hard to think of anyone who shouldn't read it' Sunday Times

Banish bad arguments and woolly rhetoric! More addictive mental work-outs from the author of the bestselling The Pig that Wants to be Eaten