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Granta by Ian Jack 9780903141048
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.37Over the past two decades India has produced a dazzling variety of new writing in English. 'India Calling' showcases some of this talent, Amit Chaudhuri and Arundhati Roy, alongside contributions... -
Granta Ian Jack 9780903141079
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31This collection of essays features the theme of what people wanted as children. The contributing writers include: Doris Lessing, Paul Auster, Brian MacKinnon and Nell Stroud. There are also pieces by... -
Granta by Ian Jack 9780903141031
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903141031Author Ian JackFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Granta by Ian Jack 9780903141109
Booksplease Price: £16.12John Litchfield on how the French election exposed a national identity crisis.Book InformationISBN 9780903141109Author Ian JackFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Granta by Ian Jack 9780903141024
Booksplease Price: £16.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903141024Author Ian JackFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint -
The Granta Book Of Reportage by Ian Jack
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Since 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... -
Granta 76: Music by Ian Jack
Booksplease Price: £16.59Granta Magazine publishes the best of fiction, memoir, reportage and photography, only using work that has never been published before. Contributions include: Nik Cohn on "Bounce in New Orleans"; "Dr... -
Granta 87: Jublilee by Ian Jack
Booksplease Price: £16.59A 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... -
Granta 86: Film by Ian Jack
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.57Granta 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 Granta Book Of India by Ian Jack
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67The 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... -
Granta 72: Overreachers by Ian Jack
Booksplease Price: £16.06New fiction from Matt Condon. Panos Karnezis, and Olga Tokarczuk with a story on the hiden lives of hotel rooms, the first translation of Poland's most acclaimed young novelists.There was always the... -
Granta 79: Celebrity by Ian Jack 9780903141543
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.20An issue devoted to the dubious rewards and strange effects of fame which successfully avoids mentioning Andy Warhol.This edition centres around celebrity, both good and bad. Contributions include:... -
Granta 71: Shrinks by Ian Jack 9780903141383
Booksplease Price: £16.06A collection of essays, both fiction and non-fiction, examining psychiatry from the patient's couch and the psychiatrist's chair.This issue examines the experience from the patient's couch and the... -
Granta 70: Australia by Ian Jack 9780903141369
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.54The year 2000 is Australia's year, including the Sydney Olympics in September, and the 100th anniversary of its nationhood three months later. This issue of "Granta" celebrates Australian writing and... -
Granta 69: The Assassin by Ian Jack 9780903141345
Booksplease Price: £16.11In 1966, the South African premier, Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed to death in the South African parliament. Who was the killer and what was his motives? A political enemy of the system? A madman?In... -
Granta 68: Love Stories by Ian Jack
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964561182Author Ian JackFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Granta 80: The Group by Ian Jack 9780903141567
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.26Everybody has been a reluctant or willing member of one: the family, the school, the football side, the quiz team, the once-faithful friends who met in a bar every Friday at five. Group photographs... -
The Poet and his Audience by Ian Jack 9780521278096
Booksplease Price: £35.47How far, and in what respects, is a poet's work influenced by the kind of audience for which he writes? The question is crucial to our understanding of how great poems came to be written, yet it has... -
Medieval Wales by R. Ian Jack 9780521089463
Booksplease Price: £35.47The sources for the history of medieval Wales are scanty, sporadic and physically scattered. Neither in archival, narrative nor archaeological remains is Wales comparable to England, and what... -
Granta 85: Hidden Histories by Ian Jack
Booksplease Price: £16.20Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilizations: an issue of Granta that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war. With Diana Athill on... -
Granta 88: Mothers by Ian Jack 9780903141734
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.20Edmund White on Delilah Mae White: 'What made her uncertain were the proper boundaries between children and adults, love and sex, work and play. What bewildered her were her own children.' John... -
Granta 63: Beasts by Ian Jack 9780903141208
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.06THE SCENE OF THE CRIME: Genocide is a word that has haunted this century, but its definition is contentious and our memory of it selective. A photographic essay by Simon Norfolk introduced by Michael... -
Granta 89: The Factory by Ian Jack 9780903141758
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.20Britain 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... -
Granta 96: War Zones by Ian Jack
Booksplease Price: £16.26This work includes dispatches from the world of conflict, in the battlefield and in the home, including: James Buchan on Iran's nuclear weapons programme; Jasmina Tesanovic on the death squads of... -
Best of the Young American Novelists Granta 9780903141017
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903141017Author GrantaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Granta 98: The Deep End by Ian Jack 9780903141949
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.26Struggling maybe, but waving not drowning. This issue of "Granta" contains writing from people whose experience of life suggests they have something to tell us about survival.This work features Diana... -
Granta 75: Brief Encounters by Ian Jack 9780903141468
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.26'I was approached by a courteous young man who handed me a visiting card engraved with his name, Joseph, and his profession: Senior Officers' Pimp.' Norman Lewis embarks on his career as a British... -
Granta 82: Lifes Like That by Ian Jack 9780903141604
Booksplease Price: £16.20Like what, exactly? Like always ready to surprise you on the stairs; like wishing you had only known; like wanting it to go on for rather longer. This issue of Granta contains lessons drawn from the... -
Granta 73: Necessary Journeys by Ian Jack 9780903141420
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.06Some travel is vital to the traveller. Sometimes you need to get home or get away. Sometimes this is far from easy. Compelling stories about journeys which needed to be made. You might call it... -
Granta 95: Loved Ones by Ian Jack 9780903141888
Booksplease Price: £16.78It can be hard to love the people we should love; sometimes objects of affection are easier. This issue includes Jonathan Taylor's frank and bitterly funny account of a boyhood spent caring for a... -
Granta 93: God's Own Countries by Ian Jack
Booksplease Price: £16.98The 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,... -
Granta 92: The View from Africa by Ian Jack
Booksplease Price: £16.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929001224Author Ian JackFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Granta 78: Bad Company by Ian Jack 9780903141529
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.20A fiction special, introducing two new authors. Gary Shteyngart is not yet 30. His story, "Several Anecdotes About My Wife", is a funny and scurrilous account of a young Russian immigrant's... -
Granta 83: This Overheating World by Ian Jack 9780903141628
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.20Not so much the state we're in as the mess we're getting into. The world we were born into has gone. We shall never completely recapture its climate, its seasons, the way its plants grew and its... -
Granta 67: Women And Children First by Ian Jack
Booksplease Price: £16.06This issue reflects a variety of the extreme individual experience provided by the 20th century. James Hamilton-Paterson recounts his rape by five men in the Libyan desert; Joy Williams decides that... -
Granta 64: Russia The Wild East by Ian Jack 9780903141246
Booksplease Price: £16.06This issue on Russia explores how an old country is finding new ways to think and write. As well as fiction by Russian writers, there is a report on a visit to the once unvisitable Siberia,... -
Granta 69: The Assassin by Ian Jack 9780903141345 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.99In 1966, the South African premier, Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed to death in the South African parliament. Who was the killer and what was his motives? A political enemy of the system? A madman?In... -
Granta 91: Wish You Were Here by Ian Jack 9780903141802
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.20LAST GASPS Thoughts about Alan while waiting for Harold, by Simon Gray The author of the celebrated and widely-acclaimed The Smoking Diaries returns to print with a tender, affecting, and of course... -
Granta 77: What We Think Of America by Ian Jack 9780903141505
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.38The events of September 11 were terrible; their consequences might prove to be more so. But out of them has arisen what might be called the "but" sentiment, as in "It was terrible...but the Americans... -
Granta 97: The Best Of Young American Novelists Ian Jack 9780903141925
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This issue features new work by the twenty writers that Granta's judges - including novelists Edmund White and A.M. Homes - have selected as the most interesting new young voices in American fiction...