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Granta 130 India: Another way of seeing by Ian Jack
29.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
A powerful curiosity is the hallmark of new kind of Indian writing: important questions about the country's past and present have found their expression in different forms of non-fiction story-telling that twenty years ago tended to be the preserve of writers from the west. Biography, memoir, narrative ...Show more
Granta 77 What We Think of America by Ian Jack (ed.)
10.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this issue, writers from across the world describe how America has affected them - culturally, politically, economically, as citizens, as writers, as children and as adults, for better or worse.
Granta 85: Hidden Histories by Ian Jack (Editor)
29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
This issue of Granta excavates histories both personal and political: repressed memories, unexplored lives, forgotten wars, secret careers. Contents: Orhan Pamuk: A Religious Conversation Diana Athill: Alive, Alive-Oh! J. Robert Lennon: Eight Pieces For The Left Hand Brian Cathcart: The Lives Of ...Show more
Granta 86 Film by Ian Jack (ed)
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Contents: John Fowles The French Lieutenant's Diary Ian Jack The Best Picture He Ever Saw Tessa Hadley The Enemy Maarten 't Hart Rats Karl French Art by Directors Thomas Keneally The Handbag Studio Gaby Wood In Lana Turner's Bedroom Jonathan Lethem Two or Three Things I Dunno About Ca ...Show more
Granta 87 Jubilee! The 25th Anniversary Issue by Ian Jack (ed.)
29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing | Reading Level: very good
This special edition of Granta celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary with a rich collection of new pieces by some of the writers who helped make its reputation, and by others who may do so in the future.
Granta 89 The Factory by Ian Jack (ed.)
29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The answer, 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. Featuring Isabel Hilton in the new factories of China, Joe Sacco on Chechen rebels living in an abandoned dairy factory, Andrew Martin i ...Show more
Granta 90, Summer 2005 : Country Life - despatches from what's left by Ian Jack (ed)
29.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Country Life: how it is lived, how it has changed, and how the changes are far from over Country Life: how it is lived, how it has changed, and how the changes are far from over. One of the world's oppositions used to be: country versus town, ale v claret, fields v houses, nature v artifice, starlight ...Show more
Granta 91 Autumn 2005 : Wish You Were Here by Ian Jack
29.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing
This issue features Simon Gray in Barbados, rocking in his pram, smoking, remembering Alan Bates; Sa
Granta 92 :The View from Africa (Winter 2005) by Ian Jack (ed)
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34.99 (14% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
What do the people of Africa feel, in their diverse cultures and classes and nations? We know what Bob Geldof and Tony Blair think about Africa - as the continent that most needs salvation. But what do the people of Africa feel, in their diverse cultures and classes and nations? Africa is too lar ...Show more
Granta 93 : God's Own Countries (Spring 2006) by Ian Jack
29.99 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing
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 others on their personal experiences
Granta 94 On the Road Again - where travel writing went next by Ian Jack (ed)
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
Where travel writing went next 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; To ...Show more