Category Archives: Travel Guides
Granta 96: War Zones
This 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 Serbia; Hugh Raffles on cricket-fighting in Shanghai; and new fiction by Tahmima Anam and Edmund White. It also contains: Britain`s hidden defence bases, and
Granta 64 – Wild East
This 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, interviews with the survivors of Stalin`s gulag, and a discussion of the place of vodka in Russian culture.
Granta 67 – Women & Children First
This 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 her dog should die; Marlon Brando reveals the stupidities of celebrity to Studs Terkel; Andrew Brown describes the death of God in the Church
Australia: The New New World
Granta has dedicated its Summer 2000 issue of the Magazine of New Writing to Australia. The natural beauties of Australia have made it a favourite tourist destination and the millennium Olympic Games have put the country more than ever in the focus of worldwide attention, but how much does the West know about Australians? The
Granta 71 – Shrinks
A collection of essays, both fiction and non-fiction, examining psychiatry from the patient`s couch and the psychiatrist`s chair.
Overreachers – Granta 72
New 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.
Granta 73 – Necessary Journeys
Some 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 necessary travel writing.
Granta 74: Confessions of…
Granta magazine publishes the best of fiction, memoir, reportage and photography, Every issue of Granta is in print and many issues – such as `Travel`, `Dirty Realism`, `The Family`, `India` and `Unbelievable` – are classics. Granta only publishes work that has never been published anywhere before. So anyone reading us would have discovered (among others)
Yorkshire-English / English-Yorkshire
Yorkshire English is a helpful pocket glossary, explaining over 300 words extracted from the day-to-day rich dialect of England’s largest county. The title also contains local idioms.
Lower Wye Valley
A useful, practical and comprehensive illustrated guide to climbing in the Lower Wye Valley, produced by The Climbers’ Club. This volume includes only the five major Lower Wye crags between Chepstow and Tintern. Though labelled Volume One, this is the second to be published (Nov 2007) of a new series of three books covering the
