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Granta 130: India, Another Way of Seeing

By Ian Jack (introduced by), Deepti Kapoor (contributor), Hari Kunzru (contributor), Karthika Nair (contributor) and Aman Sethi (contributor)

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9781905881857 | Granta Books, January 23, 2015, cover price $16.99

A Guide to Self-improvement

Product Description: This book tells you about the different ways of self improvement. ItÃ¢Â€Â™s easy to stay stuck in the same old rut longing for more and yet wondering just why life sometimes kicks you in the teeth and passes you by. Maybe you see people achieving their dreams and living the perfect lifestyle for them and you witness others who are lucky in love and in life generally...read more

By Ian Jack

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9781505652741 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 27, 2014, cover price $6.75 | About this edition: This book tells you about the different ways of self improvement.

Granta 81: The Best of Young British Novelists 3

For the third time, Granta has selected 20 writers under 40 whose writing represents the best promise or achievement in British fiction. The collection includes stories by Sarah Waters, Rachel Cusk, Robert McLiam Wilson, Rachel Seiffert, Philip Hensher, A. L. Kennedy and Toby Litt.

By Ian Jack (editor)

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9780903141581 | Granta Books, May 7, 2013, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: For the third time, Granta has selected 20 writers under 40 whose writing represents the best promise or achievement in British fiction.

Granta 98: The Deep End

Product Description: The secret enthusiasms that sustain us â€” bicycling, stamp collecting, butterfly hunting, gardening, absurd days with a golf club or finding a fishing rod: what writers do or dream of when not writing. Featuring new writings by Sean Wilsey, Thomas Lynch, and Luc SantÃ©.

By Ian Jack (editor)

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9781929001286 | Granta Books, August 10, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The secret enthusiasms that sustain us â€” bicycling, stamp collecting, butterfly hunting, gardening, absurd days with a golf club or finding a fishing rod: what writers do or dream of when not writing.

9780903141949 | Gardners Books, July 2, 2007, cover price $17.95

Granta 97: Best of Young American Novelists II

By Ian Jack

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9781929001279 | Granta Books, April 20, 2007, cover price $14.95

Granta 97: The Best of Young American Novelists

By Ian Jack (editor)

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9780903141925 | Gardners Books, April 16, 2007, cover price $23.35

The Granta Book of Reportage

Featuring distinguished writers and reporters: John Simpson, James Fenton, Martha Gellhorn, Germaine Greer, Ryszard Kapuscinski, as well as talents Elana Lappin, Suketu Mehta and Wendell Steavenson, this book covers some of the signal events: the fall of Saigon, the end of apartheid in South Africa, the massacre in Tiananmen Square, and more.

By Ian Jack (introduced by)

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9781862078154 | 3 edition (Granta Books, February 1, 2007), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Collects twelve of the most significant pieces of eyewitness reports that have been published by the leading news journal, in a new edition that includes James Fenton's account on hitching a ride on a tank in Saigon, Martha Gellhorn's discussion of Panama City after the U.

9781862071933 | Granta Books, October 1, 1998, cover price $14.95

War Zones

By Ian Jack (editor)

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9781929001262 | Granta Books, January 28, 2007, cover price $14.95

Granta 95: Loved Ones

Product Description: It can be hard to love the people we should love; sometimes objects of affection are easier. This issue features Jonathan Taylorâ€™s frank and funny account of a boyhood spent caring for a father with Parkinsonâ€™s Disease (Â‘Who are you?â€™), and James Lasdun revisits Forest Lawns cemetery, inspiration for Evelyn Waughâ€™s The Loved One...read more

By Ian Jack

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9781929001255 | Granta Books, October 10, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: It can be hard to love the people we should love; sometimes objects of affection are easier.

Granta: On the Road Again

By Ian Jack (editor)

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9781929001248 | Granta Books, August 3, 2006, cover price $14.95

Granta 94: On the Road Again - Where Travel Writing Went Next

Features articles by: Tim Parks, on the joys of commuting from Verona to Milan every day; Christopher de Bellaigue, on tracking down the Armenians in Turkey; Jeremy Treglown, following in the footsteps of V. S. Pritchett in Spain; Jeremy Seabrook, on being separated from his twin; and, Todd McEwen, on Cary Grant's trousers.

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9780903141864 | Granta Books, July 14, 2006, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Features articles by: Tim Parks, on the joys of commuting from Verona to Milan every day; Christopher de Bellaigue, on tracking down the Armenians in Turkey; Jeremy Treglown, following in the footsteps of V.

Granta: God's Own Countries

Product Description: The politics of religion around the world, featuring John McGahern, A. L. Kennedy, Richard Mabey, Simon Gray, Geoff Dyer, Jackie Kay, Pankaj Mishra, Nell Freudenberger, and more on their personal experiencesâ€”close, baffling, acrimonious, or nonexistentâ€” of the divine.

By Ian Jack

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9781929001231 | Granta Books, April 14, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The politics of religion around the world, featuring John McGahern, A.

Granta 93: God's Own Countries

By Ian Jack

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9780903141840 | Granta Books, April 3, 2006, cover price $17.95

Granta: The View from Africa

By Ian Jack (editor)

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9781929001224 | Granta Books, December 30, 2005, cover price $14.95

Granta 91: Wish You Were Here

The author of the celebrated and widely-acclaimed The Smoking Diaries, returns to print, with a tender, affecting, and of course funny account of his friendship with Alan Bates, written as he waits in Barbados for Harold Pinter to turn up.

By Ian Jack (editor)

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9781929001217 | Granta Books, October 10, 2005, cover price $14.95

9780903141802 | Granta Books, October 3, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The author of the celebrated and widely-acclaimed The Smoking Diaries, returns to print, with a tender, affecting, and of course funny account of his friendship with Alan Bates, written as he waits in Barbados for Harold Pinter to turn up.

Granta 90: Country Life

Product Description: Country Life: how it is lived, how it has changed, and how the changes are far from over. An issue that ranges from English fox-hunters to the rice-planters of the Ganges delta.Tim Adams goes on a fox hunt, Craig Taylor returns to Akenfield thirty-five years after Ronald Blythe's landmark book, Jeff Sharlet finds out what's eating rural Coloradans...read more

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9781929001200 | Granta Books, July 10, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Country Life: how it is lived, how it has changed, and how the changes are far from over.

Granta 90: Country Life - Dispatches from What's Left of It

Country Life: how it is lived, how it has changed, and how the changes are far from over. An issue that ranges from English fox- hunters to the rice-planters of the Ganges delta.

By Ian Jack (editor)

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9780903141789 | Granta Books, July 7, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Country Life: how it is lived, how it has changed, and how the changes are far from over.

The Factory

Britain invented the factory - Manchester was the world's first factory city. Where are they now? The anser, mainly, is China. An issue devoted to how and where we made and make things, from strawberries in the fields of Herefordshire to the car plants of Korea.

By Ian Jack (editor)

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9780903141758 | Granta Books, April 1, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Britain invented the factory - Manchester was the world's first factory city.

Granta 88: Mothers

Product Description: Ma, mummy, mom, mere, mataji, madre, mutter, mamma mia!Â‘What made her uncertain were the proper boundaries between children and adults, love and sex, work and play. What bewildered her were her children.â€™Â—Edmund White, Â‘The Merry Widowâ€™Â‘My mother spoke to me of heaven as concretely and with as much love as she named the wild flowers...read more

By Ian Jack (editor)

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9781929001187 | Granta Books, February 28, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Ma, mummy, mom, mere, mataji, madre, mutter, mamma mia!

Mothers

Collection & anthologies of various literacy from John MCGahern on his mother's struggle for health & happiness in Catholic Ireland, Alexander Fuller on bearing a child in Africa, Ryszard Kapuscinski on his memories of the Second World War plus writings from Edmund White, Paul Theroux, Jim Lewis and others.

By Ian Jack (editor)

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9780903141734 | Granta Books, January 1, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Collection & anthologies of various literacy from John MCGahern on his mother's struggle for health & happiness in Catholic Ireland, Alexander Fuller on bearing a child in Africa, Ryszard Kapuscinski on his memories of the Second World War plus writings from Edmund White, Paul Theroux, Jim Lewis and others.

Jubilee

A celebration of Granta's first quarter century with new writing from the writers who made its reputation, including Martin Amis, Paul Auster, William Boyd, Amit Chaudhul, Richard Ford, James Hamilton-Paterson, Jan Morris, Blake Morrison, Jayne Anne Phillips, Paul Theroux and Edmund White.

By Ian Jack (editor)

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9780903141710 | Granta Books, October 1, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A celebration of Granta's first quarter century with new writing from the writers who made its reputation, including Martin Amis, Paul Auster, William Boyd, Amit Chaudhul, Richard Ford, James Hamilton-Paterson, Jan Morris, Blake Morrison, Jayne Anne Phillips, Paul Theroux and Edmund White.

Granta 87: Jubilee!