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Men Explain Things to Me
And Other Essays
2024 || Paperback || Rebecca (Y) Solnit || Granta Books
Included in the BEST OF GRANTA launch list for 2023: a collection of the landmark, incendiary essays that established Rebecca Solnit as one of the leading feminist writers working today.
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How Europe's Discovery of the Americas Revolutionized Trade, Ecology and Life on Earth
2024 || Paperback || Charles C. Mann || Granta Books
A sweeping, hugely readable account of history's biggest ecological invasion, when Europe and the Americas collided for the first time in millennia.
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The Seaside
England's Love Affair
2024 || Paperback || Madeleine Bunting || Granta Books
A vivid journey around England's great seaside resorts, exploring their history and current struggle, and what they reveal about England, from the award-winning author of Love of Country.
A Paradise Built in Hell
The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
2025 || Paperback || Rebecca Solnit || Granta Books
A landmark investigation into how communities respond to disasters, and what we can learn from these displays of altruism and generosity in the face of adversity.
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Cast Away
Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis
2024 || Paperback || Charlotte McDonald-Gibson || Granta Books
A compelling non-fiction exploration of the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, told through the stories of those who have made the perilous journey and lived to speak of their experience.
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
2024 || Paperback || Frans de Waal || Granta Books
From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal, a groundbreaking work which challenges everything we think we know about animal intelligence.
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Mama's Last Hug
Animal Emotions and What They Teach Us about Ourselves
2024 || Paperback || Frans de Waal || Granta Books
A groundbreaking, approachable book on the role of emotions in animal and human societies, from the world-renowned primatologist and author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Train Dreams
2023 || Paperback || Denis Johnson || Granta Books
'A masterpiece... one of the best prose writers in our time' Michael OndaatjeRobert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West, felling the trees that feed the railways. It is the start of the twentieth century, and the world is changing at a rapid pace.
Life is fragile in the wilds of the frontier; disease and forest fires are rife. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainier journeys, struggling to make sense of the bewildering changes transforming the nation. Rich and muscular, sweep...
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How to Think Like a Philosopher
Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking
2024 || Hardcover || Julian Baggini || Granta Books
The key principles for a more humane and balanced approach to thinking, to politics and to life, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks.
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Under a Metal Sky
A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonder
2025 || Hardcover || Philip Marsden || Granta Books
A revelatory journey from the tin mines of Cornwall to the gold mountains of Georgia in search of the substances which have both shaped our imagination and imperilled our very existence.