A T N A GR BER J U LY – D E C E M
2020
Contents Originals
The Case for Keto 2 The Museum of Whales You Will Never See 3 Undreamed Shores 4 People From My Neighbourbood 5 The Mission House 6 Eat the Buddha 8 Between Light and Storm 9 The Godless Gospel 10 Earthlings 12 Labours of Love 14 My Father’s Letters 16 No Novel 17 The Invisible Land 18 Life Without Air 20 The Fatherland and the Jews 21
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The Topeka School 22 Make It Scream, Make It Burn 23 Fly Already 24 The Divers’ Game 25 The Mezzanine 26 Granta Editions 27
Granta Magazine
Granta 152: Summer issue Granta 153: Nature
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Backlist highlights 30 Get in touch 32
june
The Case for Keto STOP PRESS
© Kirsten Lara Getchell
The Truth About Low-Carb, High-Fat Eating
is an award-winning science and health journalist and the author of the bestselling The Case Against Sugar, Why We Get Fat and The Diet Delusion gary taubes
Gary Taubes A revelatory exposé of the bad science behind conventional weight-loss advice and an argument for low-carb high-fat diets, from the bestselling author of The Case Against Sugar. While the government still spouts the failed mantra of calorie reduction, doctors treating diabetes and obesity are experiencing extraordinary results among patients cutting out carbs. With forensic journalistic rigour, Gary Taubes analyses the bad science behind our nutritional dogma, and makes the compelling case that weight gain is driven by hormonal factors, and that people who fatten easily can be helped by a low-carb, high-fat diet. Praise for The Case Against Sugar :
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‘A hard-hitting and important book’ Sunday Times
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‘A devastating critique’ Financial Times POPULAR SCIENCE £14.99 June Royal 234 × 153mm TPB 304pp No Canada rights Serial rights 978 1 78378 653 4
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The Museum of Whales You Will Never See
Dreamers and Collectors in Iceland
A. Kendra Greene Take a tour of the eclectic museums of Iceland, and travel deep into the enchanted stories of a remote island nation. Welcome to Iceland, a small island nation with a very large number of (mostly) very small museums. From Reykjavík’s renowned Phallological Museum to a house filled with stones and a memorial filled with birds, Greene takes the reader on a tour of Iceland’s museums and uncovers tales of obsession, curation and the peculiar magic of this isolated land.
a . kendra greene
is a guest artist at the Nasher Sculpture Center and a Library Innovation Lab Fellow at Harvard University.
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TRAVEL WRITING £14.99 July Demy 216 × 135mm HB 272pp No Canada rights Serial rights and audio rights 978 1 78378 593 3 3
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Undreamed Shores
dr frances larson
is the author of Severed, a Sunday Times Book of the Year. She is an associate researcher at the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford.
Five Women Who Sought the World
Frances Larson The extraordinary true story of a pioneering group of women who set out to explore the furthest reaches of the known world. In the first decades of the 20th century, five women arrived at Oxford University determined to study remote communities a world away from their own. Travelling from the wastelands of Siberia to the interiors of New Guinea, through their work they challenged the myths that constrained their lives. Yet when they returned to England they found loss, madness and regret waiting for them.
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‘Deeply poignant… If you want to understand why there is so little historical evidence of women’s intellectual achievement, read this’ Madeleine Bunting, author of Love of Country ‘Vivid and moving… sensitively told and rigorously researched’ Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall previous titles
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BIOGRAPHY £20.00 July Royal 234 × 153mm HB 352pp All territories US and serial rights 978 1 78378 332 8
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People From My Neighbourhood
Hiromi Kawakami
Translated from the Japanese by Ted Goossen
From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this collection of delightful, delectable Japanese microfiction. In Kawakami’s super-short ‘palm of the hand’ stories the world is never quite as it should be: a small child lives under a sheet near his neighbour’s house; an apartment block leaves its visitors with strange afflictions; an old man has two shadows. This is bite-sized fiction to relish. Praise for Strange Weather in Tokyo: ‘Enchanting, moving and funny in equal measure, this compelling love story is expertly crafted against a backdrop of modern Japanese culture… A perfect love story’ Stylist
is the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, The Nakano Thrift Shop and The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino. ted goossen
is Professor of Japanese Literature at York University in Toronto. previous titles
THE TEN LOVES OF MR NISHINO 978 1 84627 701 6 THE NAKANO THRIFT SHOP 978 1 84627 602 6 STRANGE WEATHER IN TOKYO 978 1 78378 579 7
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yrd had never been to sea, but in three short weeks he’d come to love his bungalow in the presbytery garden the same way he thought a sailor must love his ship. The tidy order of everything. The feeling of calm he had in the evenings looking out through the windows over the tops of the trees, towards the tea-covered hills above the town. High up here by himself, on the slope of this other hill, it was like being in an ark that had come to rest, happily, in this precise spot. He still had some bad days.
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The Mission House Carys Davies
Fleeing a Britain in flux, Hilary Byrd takes refuge in a south Indian mission house next door to the presbytery where the padre and his adoptive daughter Priscilla live. As Hilary’s friendship with Priscilla grows, so too do religious and nationalist tensions around them. A deeply human fable of the wonders and terrors of connection in a modern world from the prize-winning author of West.
© Jonathan Bean
In a former British hill station in contemporary India, a collision between new and old, east and west.
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acclaimed novel West won the Wales Book of the Year Fiction award, was runner-up for the McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize.
Praise for West: ‘One of the most haunting and beautifully crafted novels... quite wonderful’ Sunday Times
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‘Slender, stark and utterly mesmerising’ Mail on Sunday ‘A marvel – Davies creates worlds in a few deft pen strokes’ The Times
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Eat the Buddha © Madeine Grant
The Story of Modern Tibet Through the People of One Town
barbara demick
won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nothing to Envy, her seminal book on North Korea. She is also the author of Besieged.
Barbara Demick From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Nothing to Envy, a riveting portrait of 21st-century Tibetan life through the stories from one town. In 1950, China claimed sovereignty over Tibet, leading to decades of resistance. Through the stories of monks, townsfolk and exiles, Barbara Demick chronicles the Tibetan experience and its recent history from Ngaba, a town on the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau, where dozens of Tibetans have shocked the world by immolating themselves.
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‘An utterly compelling account of life in this most reclusive of societies… enthralling and prizeworthy’ Mail on Sunday REPORTAGE £18.99/£12.99 export September Royal 234 × 153mm HB/export TPB 272pp No Canada, Australia or New Zealand rights Serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 570 4 (HB) 978 1 78378 208 6 (export TPB)
Our Lives With Other Species
Esther Woolfson A landmark book about the relationship between humans and animals that takes us from Genesis to the climate crisis.
september
Between Light and Storm
esther woolfson
is the author of Corvus: A Life with Birds and Field Notes From a Hidden City, both published by Granta Books.
Drawing on philosophy, theology, art and history, as well as her own experience of observing and knowing animals at close range, Woolfson examines some of the most complex ethical issues surrounding our treatment of animals and argues passionately and persuasively for a more humble, more humane, relationship with the creatures who share our world. Praise for Field Notes From a Hidden City:
FIELD NOTES FROM A HIDDEN CITY 978 1 84708 276 3 CORVUS 978 1 78378 448 6
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CULTURAL HISTORY/ NATURE WRITING £20.00 September Royal 234 × 153mm HB 352pp All territories US, translation, serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 279 6
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© Ross Johnston
‘A beautiful book; a meditation and an investigation, a contemplation of our uncaring attitude to wild animals’ The Times
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hat I found is a belief system which goes against the gentle image of Jesus as an advocate of homely moral truths that we can all easily and warmly embrace. Much of his teaching is discomforting, and quite a bit is objectionable. Yet this is something even many believers might welcome. It rescues Jesus from the literally infantilising image of the meek and mild baby in the manger who comes to bring peace. It recasts him as an iconoclastic revolutionary so threatening that he was crucified. The moral philosophy of Jesus is often challenging and radical, for believers and infidels alike.
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The Godless Gospel Was Jesus a Great Moral Teacher?
Julian Baggini
Even if we don’t believe that Jesus was the son of God, we tend to think he was a great moral teacher. But was he? Focusing solely on Jesus’s teachings, Baggini introduces us to a more radical Jesus than popular culture depicts, and finds that his words amount to a powerful philosophy, from which there is much to learn. Praise for How the World Thinks: ‘Engaging, urbane, and humane… Baggini’s selfawareness, acuity and willingness to listen and learn point valuably away from parochial myopia and towards productive dialogue’ Guardian ‘Bold, fascinating… deft and rigorous’ Financial Times
© Richard H. Smith
The author of the Sunday Times bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Month How the World Thinks asks whether the teachings of Jesus add up to a coherent moral system we can live by today. julian baggini ’s
many books include the Sunday Times bestselling How the World Thinks, Freedom Regained, The Virtues of the Table and the bestselling The Pig that Wants to be Eaten.
HOW THE WORLD THINKS 978 1 78378 230 7
FREEDOM REGAINED 978 1 84708 718 8
THE VIRTUES OF THE TABLE 978 1 84708 715 7
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n Earth, young women were supposed to fall in love and have sex, and if they didn’t, they were ‘lonely’, or ‘bored’, or ‘wasting their youth and would regret it later’! ‘You have to make up for lost time,’ Miho was always telling me. But I couldn’t understand why, when it meant doing something I didn’t want to do.
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Earthlings Sayaka Murata
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Translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori
Mind-blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman asks: how far would you go just to be yourself ? Natsuki isn’t like the other girls. Together with her cousin, Yuu, she spends her summers in the Nagano mountains, waiting for a spaceship to take her home. When a terrible event threatens to part the children forever, they make a promise: survive, no matter what. But how far will Natsuki have to go just to keep her promise?
is the author of the bestselling Convenience Store Woman, which has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. sayaka murata
has translated authors including Ryu Murakami, Akiyuki Nosaka and Kyotaro Nishimura. ginny tapley takemori
Praise for Convenience Store Woman: ‘Exhilaratingly weird and funny’ Sally Rooney
CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN 978 1 84627 684 2
‘As intoxicating as a sake mojito’ Vogue ‘Irresistible’ Observer ‘A sure-fire hit’ Irish Times
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he vast labours of care, both unpaid and paid, still predominantly fall to women. They dominate caring professions such as nursing (89%), social work (75%) and childcare (98%). They now form the majority of GPs (54%). And they provide the vast bulk of the army of healthcare workers in the NHS (80%) and social care workers (82%) for the long-term sick, disabled and frail elderly. In recent decades, these majorities have barely shifted despite the myriad changes in women’s lives.
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SOCIAL/CULTURAL HISTORY £20.00 October Royal 234 × 153mm HB 304pp No Canada rights Serial rights and audio rights 978 1 78378 379 3
Labours of Love The Crisis of Care
Madeleine Bunting
Over five years, Madeleine Bunting travelled the country, speaking to charity workers, doctors, social workers, carers, nurses and more, to explore the value and humanity of care work – an underpaid, disregarded form of labour facing a desperate crisis. Labours of Love is a vital portrait of our nation and a clarion call for change. Praise for Love of Country: ‘Crisp and luminous... [A] splendid, precise and gracious book’ Scotland on Sunday
© Simon Robey
A deeply reflective investigation into the crisis of care in the UK, from an awardwinning author and journalist.
is a prize-winning author and journalist. Her books include Love of Country, The Plot, Willing Slaves and The Model Occupation, and a novel, Island Song, all published by Granta Books. madeleine bunting
ISLAND SONG 978 1 78378 463 9
‘I cannot think of a more intellectually challenging or rewarding travel book in recent years’ New Statesman ‘Full of empathy... both the author and reader of this book end up losing themselves not just in politics and history and the details of nature, but a sense of wonder’ Guardian
LOVE OF COUNTRY 978 1 84708 518 4
THE PLOT 978 1 84708 144 5
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My Father’s Letters is an international historical and civil rights society that operates in a number of postSoviet states. memorial
georgia thomson
is a translator from Russian to English.
Correspondence from the Soviet Gulag
The ‘Memorial’ Historical, Educational, Human Rights and Charitable Society Translated from the Russian by Georgia Thomson
A profoundly moving and powerful historical record – the letters sent by fathers imprisoned in the Gulag camps. My Father’s Letters tells the stories of 16 men who were sent to the Gulag, through the letters they sent back to their children. Richly illustrated with examples of their correspondence, this is a celebration of the indomitable nature of the human spirit, and is immediate, invaluable testimony from one of the greatest manmade horrors in history.
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With an afterword by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, winner of the Austrian State Prize for European Literature.
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HISTORY/LETTERS £25.00 October Royal 234 × 153mm HB 272pp All territories US, serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 528 5
november
No Novel
Collected Writings and Reflections © Katharina Behling
Jenny Erpenbeck
Translated from the German by Kurt Beals
A collection of exhilarating essays on literature, life, history, politics and place from the award-winning author of Go, Went Gone and The End of Days. Drawing from 25 years of thinking and writing, No Novel plots a journey through the events, works and themes that have inspired and influenced its author. Whether writing about art, reflecting on life behind the Wall, or considering Germany’s history, Erpenbeck’s perspective is always deeply personal and her response always insightful, intelligent and humane.
jenny erpenbeck
is an acclaimed international novelist, and won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2015. is a translator and professor at Washington University. kurt beals
Praise for Jenny Erpenbeck:
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‘One of Europe’s most highly regarded writers, perpetually striving to create an artistic prism through which to interpret history’s arc’ Financial Times
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© Francesca Mantovani
knocked on doors until evening. I was lucky. O’Leary proved useful. His uniform had an effect. The men and the women had different reactions. The children came up to the car. The men stared intensely at O’Leary. Once the photograph had been taken, they all stayed outside their houses while we drove away. One old woman opened the door and closed it straight away, as if she’d seen the devil. I knocked again, but she didn’t answer.
FICTION £12.99 November B-format 198 × 129mm HB 144pp All territories US, serial rights and audio rights 978 1 78378 602 2 18
The Invisible Land Hubert Mingarelli Translated from the French by Sam Taylor
From the author of A Meal in Winter and Four Soldiers, a poignant story of war, trauma and its aftermath. Germany, July 1945. The war is over. A photographer finds himself reluctant to leave with the rest of the press corps. Instead, in the company of the young driver he has been assigned, he sets out to photograph ordinary German people. A tense, tender story of the emotional and moral repercussions of violence.
is the author of numerous novels, short story collections and fiction for young adults. The Invisible Land was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt. hubert mingarelli
sam taylor
is a translator, novelist and
journalist.
FOUR SOLDIERS 978 1 84627 651 4
Praise for Four Soldiers: ‘I am astonished by Four Soldiers… A classic of writing about the human condition… A small miracle of a book, perfectly imagined and perfectly achieved’ Hilary Mantel
A MEAL IN WINTER 978 1 84627 536 4
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Life Without Air daisy lafarge
works across poetry, fiction, criticism, theory and visual art. Her novel, Paul, which won a Betty Trask Award, is forthcoming from Granta Books in 2021.
Daisy Lafarge The debut collection of a stand-out contemporary poet, bringing an ecological vision to relationships. When Louis Pasteur discovered the process of fermentation, he noted that, while most organisms perished from lack of oxygen, some were able to adapt and even thrive as ‘life without air’. In this compassionate, innovative collection, characters and scenes traverse states of airlessness, from suffocating relationships, religions and institutions to toxic environments and ecstatic asphyxiations. Praise for Daisy Lafarge:
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‘At once assertive and tender, light and dark, she manages to be consistently surprising…[with] dry wit, a flare for the surreal and bright flashes of lost reality’ Janice Galloway
POETRY £10.99 November B-format 198 × 129mm flapped PB 80pp All territories US, translation, serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 633 6
Alfred Wiener
Translated from the German by Ben Barkow
Two seminal works of interwar GermanJewish thought that tackle a still-urgent issue - the rise and spread of antisemitism, and the necessity of an intellectual resistance. A collaboration between the Wiener Holocaust Library and Granta Books. These two pamphlets, ‘Prelude to Pogroms? Facts for the Thoughtful’ and ‘German Judaism in Political, Economic and Cultural Terms’ mark the first time that Alfred Wiener, the founder of the Wiener Holocaust Library, has been published in English. Together they offer a vital insight into the antisemitic onslaught Germany’s Jews were subjected to as the Nazi party rose to power.
JEWISH STUDIES £12.99 November B format 198 × 129mm PB 80pp All territories US, translation, serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 621 3
(1885–1964) was a German Jew who dedicated much of his life to documenting antisemitism and racism in Europe, and uncovering the crimes of Germany’s Nazi government. the wiener holocaust
is Britain’s largest collection of printed and archival material covering the Holocaust and genocide. library
is a writer and translator and was the director of the Wiener Holocaust Library from 2000 to 2019. ben barkow
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alfred wiener
Alfred Wiener, 1953. © The Wiener Holocaust Library collections
Two Pamphlets by Alfred Wiener, 1919 and 1924
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The Fatherland and the Jews
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The Topeka School © Catherine Barnett
Ben Lerner
is the author of two internationally acclaimed novels, Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04, as well as several poetry collections. ben lerner
The celebrated new novel by the most dazzling American writer of his generation. ‘I think the future of the novel is here’ Sally Rooney ‘A work of extraordinary intelligence and subtlety, of lasting importance’ Observer ‘[A] fine, exacting novel’ ‘50 Best Books of 2019’, Telegraph ***** ‘Elegant, readable and delightfully clever’ The Times ‘The Topeka School is brave, furious, and finally a work of love’ Ocean Vuong
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‘I expect to be recommending [this] for the rest of my life’ Sunday Times
NO ART 978 1 78378 274 1 LEAVING THE ATOCHA STATION 978 1 84708 691 4
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Make It Scream, Make It Burn A profound meditation on isolation, longing and the dangers and conflicts of the storyteller’s art. ‘Essays of compassion and conviction... Jamison covers a wide range of subjects with deep empathy and intelligence’ ‘Best Books of 2019’, Irish Times ‘Railing, roaring essays on humanity... Jamison has time for everyone... Excellent’ Telegraph
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Leslie Jamison
leslie jamison
is the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams and a novel, The Gin Closet.
‘[ Jamison] walks a careful line between scepticism and compassion – never sacrificing her subjects’ dignity… fascinating’ New Statesman ‘Lovely and evocative’ New York Times
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Fly Already Stories
© Yanai Yechiel
Etgar Keret
is a leading voice in Israeli literature and cinema. His writing has been translated into 46 languages. etgar keret
Translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston, Jessica Cohen, Miriam Shlesinger, Nathan Englander and Yardenne Greenspan
A collection of sharp, funny, bittersweet short stories, from a ‘genius’ (New York Times) who ‘falls somewhere between Kafka and Seinfeld’(Les Inrockuptibles). WINNER OF THE SAPIR PRIZE AND THE JJ GREENBERG MEMORIAL AWARD FOR FICTION ‘Dazzling… a master of the short story’ Guardian
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‘Surreal comedy and existential tragedy coexist in the award-winning collection of darkly sardonic stories’ ‘Best translated fiction 2019’, Financial Times ‘This book should be thrust into the hands of any infidel who has ever uttered the words “I just don’t like short stories”’ Irish Times previous titles
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The Divers’ Game Jesse Ball
‘Ball richly imagines a society where empathy is eroded at every level – a condemnation of the by-design inequalities of wealth, justice, freedom and opportunity that underpin western societies. . . Chilling’ Observer
© Joe Lieske
A fresh, shocking work with echoes of China Miéville and J. G. Ballard, from a cult American writer. jesse ball 's
novel Census won the Gordon Burn Prize in 2018. He lives in Chicago.
‘A haunting and deeply felt parable about duty, morality and violence… as compressed and compelling as a folk tale’ Guardian ‘[An] Atwoodian imagination, elegant writing, and [a] fiery, contagious sense of injustice’ Big Issue ‘A brilliantly written fable about the brutalising consequences of entrenched inequality’ Metro
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The Mezzanine nicholson baker
is the author of ten novels and numerous works of non-fiction, including The Anthologist, The Mezzanine and Human Smoke.
Nicholson Baker An electrifying and hilarious novel about the mundanity of office life, reissued for Granta Editions. The Mezzanine is the story of one man’s lunch hour. Pondering life’s littlest questions, our narrator interrogates the inner workings of corporate life as he traipses his way up and down escalators to the first floor. Mixing humour with the existentialism that surrounds all our working lives, The Mezzanine is a classic work of modern American literature. ‘A seriously funny book’ Salman Rushdie ‘Hugely inventive…Baker is brilliant’ Observer
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MEMOIR/ BRITISH HISTORY £10.00 January 2018 978 1 78378 433 2
Granta Editions are outsider classics. Books which slip free of easy definition and convention; books which we believe are of lasting, transformative literary value.
HISTORY £10.00 February 2019 978 1 78378 525 4
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© Lisbeth Salas
Edited by Sigrid Rausing
is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia and the memoirs Everything Is Wonderful and Mayhem. sigrid rausing
Four times a year, Britain’s most prestigious literary magazine brings you the best new fiction, reportage, memoir, poetry and photography from around the world. This issue features John Ryle on the worldwide conservationist struggles over white rhinos, Lynda Schuster on Pittsburgh in the wake of a synagogue shooting, Ariel Saramandi on everyday racism in Mauritius, and Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine, on his grandmother’s escape from Berlin during the 1936 Olympics.
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Plus, fiction by Jason Ockert, Mahreen Sohail and Ann Beattie, as well as photography by Diana Matar in Naples.
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Granta 153: Nature
granta magazine
£12.99 November 210 × 145mm PB 256pp All territories 978 1 90988 936 1
is the award-winning author of five books, most recently Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm, which charts the story of the pioneering rewilding project in Sussex where she lives. isabella tree
© Charlie Burrell
This issue encapsulates the state of nature and our different cultural relationships with it worldwide. It features Callum Roberts on coral reefs, Tim Flannery on the extinction of megafauna, Derek Gow on sheep farming, Charles Massy on regenerative agriculture, Suprabha Seshan on singing with birds, Judith Schwartz on how to recover water, Ellen J. Coon on the Buddhist farmers of the Kathmandu Valley, Robert Becker on poet W.S. Merwin in Hawaii, Zoë Tryon’s interview with Amazonian shaman Manari Ushigua, John MacDonald’s interview with Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, and more.
© Charlie Burrell
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GHOST WALL 978 1 78378 446 2 £8.99
THE VEGETARIAN 978 1 84627 603 3 £8.99
THE LUMINARIES 978 1 84708 432 3 £9.99
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JOKES FOR THE GUNMEN 978 1 84627 667 5 £10.99
ASYMMETRY 978 1 78378 362 5 £8.99
THE HEAVENS 978 1 78378 486 8 £8.99
SABRINA 978 1 78378 490 5 £16.99
THE WILD PLACES 978 1 78378 449 3 £9.99
STASILAND 978 1 84708 335 7 £9.99
MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME 978 1 78378 079 2 £12.99
LONDONERS 978 1 84708 329 6 £9.99
I WILL NEVER SEE THE WORLD AGAIN 978 1 78378 515 5 £9.99
HOW THE WORLD THINKS 978 1 78378 230 7 £9.99
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