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The Granta Book Of Reportage by Ian Jack
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Since its relaunch in 1979, Granta magazine has championed the art and craft of reportage - journalism marked by vivid description, a novelist's eye to form and eyewitness reporting that reveals... -
The Granta Book Of India by Ian Jack
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60The Granta Book of India brings together, for the first time, evocative, personal and informative pieces from previous editions of Granta magazine on the experiences of Indian life, culture and... -
The Collected Tales Of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - from the demon-haunted 'St John's Eve' to the strange surrealism of 'The Nose', from the heart-rending trials of the copyist in 'The Overcoat' to those of... -
Granta 87: Jublilee by Ian Jack
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $21.27A 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... -
Rules for Visiting Jessica Francis Kane 9781783784653
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60'Midway through my fortieth year, I reached a point where the balance of the past and all it contained seemed to outweigh the future, my mind so full of things said and not said, done and undone, I... -
Balti Britain: A Provocative Journey Through Asian Britain by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Sardar travels to Asian communities throughout the UK to tell the history of Asians in Britain - from the arrival of the first Indian in 1614, to the young extremists in Walthamstow mosque in 2006... -
Granta 86: Film by Ian Jack
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $21.25Granta goes to the movies. Featuring John Fowles on the making of 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' and DM Thomas on the not-making of 'The White Hotel', Nik Cohn on his early involvement with the porn... -
The Billy Palmer Chronicles Derek Johns 9781846272141
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60Billy Palmer grew up in a sleepy rural village, but his dreams were always for something else, something beyond the world he knew. As a child, this desire for the unexplored got him into trouble, as... -
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $9.44In New Mexico, she is a young mother. Stuck in a marriage that's deteriorating, unable to shake the feeling that her house and belongings are trapping her, she is increasingly drawn to reflect on who... -
Granta 93: God's Own Countries by Ian Jack
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $21.76The politics of religion around the world, featuring: Nadeem Aslam, Diana Athill, Geoff Dyer, Nell Freudenberger, Simon Gray, A L Kennedy, Richard Mabey, John McGahern, Andrew Martin, Pankaj Mishra,... -
This Is Not About Me by Janice Galloway
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43From her earliest years with a boozy, accident-prone father and a reluctantly pragmatic mother, Janice Galloway grew up as a watcher - careful and vigilant. Then her parents' marriage broke up and... -
Return To Akenfield: Portrait Of An English Village In The 21st Century by Craig Taylor
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Ronald Blythe's 1969 book Akenfield - a moving portrait of English country life told in the voices of the farmers and villagers themselves - is a modern classic. In 2004, writer and reporter Craig... -
As If by Blake Morrison
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91"A remarkable, indispensable book" - Sunday Telegraph In 1993 toddler James Bulger was beaten to death by two ten-year-old-boys. In the wake of this brutal crime, came one of the most public and... -
Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays by Edward W. Said
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.26With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. As in the title essay, the widely admired "Reflections on... -
Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend by Diana Athill
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains with her old friend, and writing with an intimacy and spontaneity... -
The Knight And Death: And One Way Or Another by Leonardo Sciascia
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09Secret deals, powerful men and murder - One Way or Another is a chillingly prophetic work. The Knight and Death features a nameless (and apparently terminally ill) detective investigating the murder... -
Seven Days In The Art World by Sarah Thornton
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. Sarah Thornton's shrewd and entertaining fly-on-the-wall narrative... -
False Dawn: The Delusions Of Global Capitalism by John Gray 9781847081322
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26In the midst of the current financial crisis, John Gray revisits his brilliant polemic against the forces of global capitalism and deregulation. Written over ten years ago, False Dawn is a remarkably... -
The Sky Wept Fire: My Life as a Chechen Freedom Fighter by Mikail Eldin 9781846273186
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56On the eve of the first Chechen war in the 1990s, Mikail Eldin was a young and naive arts journalist. By the end of the second war, he had become a battle-hardened war reporter and mountain partisan... -
Dancing In The Streets: A History Of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781847080080
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26In Dancing in the Streets Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history:... -
Dog Run Moon: Stories by Callan Wink 9781847088147
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91A construction worker is chased through the night by a shady local businessman whose dog he has stolen; a Wild West re-enactor is engaged in a long-running affair with the Indian 'squaw' who slays... -
Besieged: Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street by Barbara Demick 9781847084118
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91For four centuries, Logavina Street was a quiet residential road in a city known for its ethnic tolerance and cosmopolitan charm. Muslims, Christians, Serbs and Croats lived easily together, sharing... -
A Love Supreme: The Creation Of John Coltrane's Classic Album by Ashley Kahn 9781783786053
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91A deeply researched and beautifully illustrated study of saxophone legend John Coltrane's signature album. Written with the full co-operation of the Coltrane family and featuring the voices of... -
Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir by Mark Gevisser 9781783780990
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43As a boy growing up in 1970s Johannesburg Mark Gevisser would play 'Dispatcher', a game that involved sitting in his father's parked car (or in the study) and sending imaginary couriers on routes... -
Four Soldiers by Hubert Mingarelli 9781846276514
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2019 'I am astonished by Four Soldiers. I have never read anything like it, yet it is one of those books you feel must always have existed, a... -
City Secrets: Florence Venice by Robert Kahn 9781783783632
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91If a standard guidebook has never revealed the Italy you seek, let City Secrets show you the way. See the glorious art and architecture of Italy's villages and cities through the eyes of the people... -
Away by Amy Bloom 9781847080134
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77Amy Bloom's Away revitalizes the American road-trip novel from the perspective of a vulnerable but spirited woman. It paints a vivid, earthy and surprising picture of 1920s America, its smells and... -
The Good Book: How to Read the Bible Richard Holloway 9781783780266
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77Sacred to millions across the world, translated into countless languages and with estimated annual sales of 25 million, The Bible is one of the most influential books of all time. But how, in the... -
Granta: 42: Krauts! by ED. BILL BUFORD 9780140140569
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140140569Author ED. BILL BUFORDFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta BooksPublisher Granta... -
Granta by Ian Jack 9780903141109
Booksplease Price: $20.58John Litchfield on how the French election exposed a national identity crisis.Book InformationISBN 9780903141109Author Ian JackFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta BooksPublisher Granta Books -
Granta 60: Unlikely Ends, Fateful Escapes And The Fascism Of Flowers by Ian Jack 9780903141147
Booksplease Price: $20.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorIan Jack edited Granta from 1995 to 2007, having previously edited the Independent on Sunday. He has... -
To the Back of Beyond Peter Stamm 9781783783304
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60After returning from a pleasant holiday with his wife, Astrid, and their two children, Thomas walks out the front door. Thomas walks up the street. Thomas keeps walking. Astrid gradually realizes... -
Certainty by Madeleine Thien 9781783783731
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60In present-day Vancouver, Gail Lim, a producer of radio documentaries, is haunted by the mysterious events in her father's childhood in war-torn Asia, and using her skills as a journalist is driven... -
Corvus: A Life With Birds by Esther Woolfson 9781783784486
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26One spring, many years ago, Esther Woolfson's daughter rescued a fledgling rook. That rook, named Chicken, quickly established herself as part of the family, and other birds, including an irascible... -
How To Read Sade by John Phillips 9781862077270
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.95John Philips introduces the Marquis de Sade's highly original and thoroughly subversive depiction of human sexuality and the philosophical and political thinking that underpins it. He shows how,... -
The Tea Lords by Hella S. Haasse 9781846271717
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Born into wealth and privilege, Rudolf Kerkhoven is destined to follow his father's footsteps into the Dutch colonies, with its uncleared jungle foothills and potential for riches. When he arrives... -
How To Read The Qur'an by Mona Siddiqui 9781783780273
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26The Qur'an is regarded by Muslims as the direct word of God, timeless and unchanged. It is used not only for prayer and worship but as a path which can lead the believer to a closer understanding of... -
Daphne by Will Boast 9781783781515
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Daphne suffers from a rare medical condition; her body shuts down when she feels strong emotions. As a result she has built strong walls between herself and the world, avoiding passion, anger,... -
Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem by George Prochnik 9781783781805
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Gershom Scholem, the great humanist thinker and founder of modern Kabbalah, is all but forgotten today. But here, in a biography as daring and inquisitive as its subject, George Prochnik goes in... -
The Patriots Sana Krasikov 9781783781829
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60'A sweeping, colourful read' Mail on Sunday Lose yourself in the irresistable story of one woman's journey through 20th-century Russia. Growing up in 1930s Brooklyn, Florence Fein will do...