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Published as an elegant and collectable book four times a year, Granta is one of the worlds most respected literary magazines, acclaimed for the quality of its writing and for its mix of established and emerging authors. With over 100 issues in print, Granta published the early work of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath and introduced Bill Bryson, Arundhati Roy and Zadie Smith to name a few to readers. Its contributors include Ryszard Kapuscinski, Sa...

A poetic, enthralling novel based on the life of one of the early botanist-explorers Anders Sparrman. He sailed with Cook to the Antarctic, explored the South African interior, and became a passionate abolitionist.

An extraordinary debut collection of stories, which reveal how the world looks when you're young, hip, wild and deaf

Being wrong is an inescapable part of being alive. And yet, we go through life tacitly assuming (or loudly insisting) that we are right about nearly everything. BEING WRONG looks at why this conviction has such a powerful grip on us, what happens when this conviction is shaken, and how we interpret the moral, political and psychological significance of being wrong. Drawing on philosophies old and new and cutting-edge neuroscience, Kathryn Schu...

Liz Jobey has carefully balanced fiction and non-fiction, the comic with the tragic. There is first-rate writing from - among others - Hilary Mantel, John McGahern, Raymond Carver, Hanif Kureishi and Graham Swift' Independent

Wells Tower's stories are written, thrillingly, in authentic American vernacular - violent, funny, bleak and beautiful. You need to read them, now' Michael Chabon

Unpick glib aphorisms and root out cliché with the best-selling author of The Pig that Wants to be Eaten.

The tremendous physical mastery of a 21st century dancer undoubtedly rivals that of an athlete, but the importance and significance of nutrition could not be any more different. However, merely likening the strength, Agility and physicality of a dancer to that of an athlete overlooks the very nature of dance, embodying the vigour and sublime beauty of the dancer's physique as a visual expression of art. The author trained as a professional dan...

Why do teenagers need so much sleep? Why do their feet begin to smell? Why are they suddenly attracted to sex, drugs and rock and roll? This book gives you the biological, anthropological, zoological, and cultural answers.

Drawing on American and European intelligence documents, Uki Goni shows how from 1946 onward a Nazi escape operation was based at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, harboring such war criminals as Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele. Goni uncovers an elaborate network that relied on the complicity of the Vatican, the Argentine Catholic Church, and the Swiss authorities. The discoveries made in this meticulously researched book reveal the en...

As entertaining as it is enlightening, "Dope Girls" vividly records the scandals and moral panics in Britain that followed the end of the First World War, as drug use--especially of morphine and cocaine--was transformed into a national menace. The cast of characters includes Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress, whose highly publicized death from an overdose in 1918 fueled public anxiety, Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor...

Growing up in a rural recording studio, Halo Llewellyn is rarely star-struck, but when one of the visiting singers gives birth to Fred, she knows right away that he¿s special.As the golden child grows into the gilded man, she remains dazzled by his ambition and his talent.Up on stage, being screamed at by hundreds of teenage girls, Fred will always turn his spotlight on Halo in the crowd. But that¿s the problem with falling in love with your c...

In 1996, the historian David Irving sued Penguin Books for libel, claiming he had been falsely labelled a Holocaust denier. The trial was one of the strangest to take place in an English court: the judge had to give a verdict on history. This is the story of a dramatic libel case and a meditation on truth and memory.

Shamrock tea is a magical substance that allows people to experience the world with visionary clarity. With a cast of characters that includes the gardener Ludwig Wittgenstein, these weird stories will intrigue and entrance.

This novel recounts the effects of an Allied air raid on a German city in July 1944. As American planes discharge their bombs over the city, far below an elderly couple try to live out their last moments with dignity. And a man searches desperately for his son, only to run into a troop of soldiers.

Lichtenstein, captivated by missing writer David Rodinsky, uses the chaotic room he left behind as the basis for her art. The more she unearths, the more desperate she becomes to find him and the missing pieces of his life's puzzle. Photos.

Robinson is a persuader. He uses his voice to win and manipulate, and the narrator of this novel knows he would still fall for Robinson's charm. It led him into the night-world of Soho, of seedy pubs, sexual fantasies, violence and betrayal.

Sansom delivers a playful, profound, and frequently very funny collection of observations of babies that are juxtaposed with those of famous thinkers and writers.

The harrowing story of the existence of a group of young students living in Ceausescu's Romania. "...a genuinely moving book" "Sunday Telegraph".

The gilt-lettered advertisement outside Madame Brulot's pension in the shabby rue d'Armaille promises a "first-class family boardinghouse." But only one thing is certain about this so-called reputable Parisian pension--few guests emerge from their stay unscathed. First published in 1913, this comic novella helped establish Willem Elsschot--the pseudonym of Alfons de Ridder--as one of the great Dutch writers of the 20th century.