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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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Brilliant Maps
An Atlas for Curious Minds
2024 || Paperback || Ian Wright || Granta Books
See the world anew with this unique and beautifully designed infographic atlas.
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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.
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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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The Luminaries
2024 || Paperback || Eleanor (Y) Catton || Granta Books
It is 1866, and walter moody has come to make his fortune upon the new zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky. ...
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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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Our Inner Ape
The Best And Worst Of Human Nature
2024 || Paperback || Frans de Waal || Granta Books
'A profoundly illuminating book on humans by a great primatologist' John Gray, author of Straw Dogs
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The Curtain and the Wall
A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border
2024 || Paperback || Timothy Phillips || Granta Books
From the Arctic Circle to the Turkish border, a landmark journey along the old Iron Curtain, tracing the history of the Cold War and meeting the people who live with its legacy.