Ten years after the success of the 1983 Best of Young British Novelists issue, four judges -- A.S. Byatt, Salman Rushdie, bookseller John Mitchinson, and Granta editor Bill Buford -- set out to identify twenty more young and promising writers.  The list introduced astonishing emerging talents: Alan Hollinghurst, Will Self, Hanif Kureishi, A.L. Kennedy, and many more.  This is a reissue of our widely varied anthology, including novel extracts and stories that showcase a generation of writers coming into its own.

Granta 43: Best of Young British Novelists 2

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Grove Press, Granta

Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Julian Barnes were relatively unknown names in literature when Granta published its first Best of Young British Novelists list in 1983.  They did not remain unknown for long.  These writers -- along with Pat Barker, Rose Tremain, A.N. Wilson, and Adam Mars-Jones -- became the most celebrated voices of their generation.  This anthology, now newly reissued, allows readers to explore the emerging voices of today's most established writers.

Granta 7: Best of Young British Novelists 1 (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)

This issue includes the original expose, by Elena Lappin, of Binjamin Wilomirski's bogus Holocaust memoir which William Sutcliffe described in the Independent on Sunday as "the most gripping thing I read this year." Photographer Jillian Edelstein reports on the painful process of truth-telling in South Africa. Also: fiction by Jayne Anne Phillips, Claire Messud, Stacey Richter, and Javier Marias.

Granta 66: Truth and Lies (Granata 66, Summer 1999)

Contemporary

In a powerful piece of imagination, Henk van Woerden reconstructs the strange, affecting history of Demetrios Tsafendas -- the man who assassinated Hendrik Verwoerd, South African premier and architect of apartheid. Also in this issue: Diana Athill on the need to like V. S. Naipaul; Richard Williams on the search for a long-lost jazz trumpeter; and stories by Graham Swift, Hanif Kurieshi, and Paul Theroux.

Granta 69: The Assassin

In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story . It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth centuryan exemplary choice” in the words of The Washington Post with stories by Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, and forty others demonstrating how much memorable power can lie in the briefest narration. In the years since, Ford has been reading new stories and rereading old ones and selecting new favorites. This new collection features more than forty stories, including some he regretted overlooking the first time around, as well as many by a new generation of writersamong them Sherman Alexie, Junot Díaz, Deborah Eisenberg, Nell Freudenberger, Matthew Klam, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Z. Z. Packer. None of the stories (though a few of the writers) were in the first volume. Once again, Ford’s introduction is an illuminating exposition of how a good story is written by a master of the craft.

The New Granta Book of the American Short Story

United States

Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories by authors born in the twentieth century from Mary Lavin and Frank O'Connor to Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry. With a passionate introduction by Enright, The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story traces this great tradition through decades of social change and shows the pleasure Irish writers continue to take in the short-story form. Deft and often devastating, these short stories dodge the rolling mythologies of Irish life to produce truths that are delightful and real. Includes Roddy Doyle, Elizabeth Bowen, Frank O’Connor, Seán Ó Faoláin, Edna O’Brien, Colm Tóibín, Clarie Keegan and William Trevor.

The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story

Are We Related?: The Granta Book of the Family

The Granta Book of the American Short Story is a selection of the best works of American short fiction published in the last 50 years. Stories featured here include A Day in the Open” by Jane Bowles; Blackberry Winter” by Robert Penn Warren; O City of Broken Dreams” by John Cheever; The Magic Barrel” by Bernard Malamud; In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All” by Grace Paley; Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin; Are These Actual Miles?” by Raymond Carver; and You’re Ugly, Too” by Lorrie Moore. Ford’s choice of stories is exemplary ... there’s wonderful reading here.” The Washington Post

The Granta Book of the American Short Story

The family: no relationship is more important, more powerful, or more enduring. Or potentially more destructive. Since the early 1980s, Granta has published fiction, memoir, biography, and reportage inspired by the most important institution in our lives. The best, and at times the most disturbing, pieces are collected here, including Where He Was: Memories of My Father” by Raymond Carver; Memoirs of a Bootlegger’s Son” by Saul Bellow; Sugar Daddy” by Angela Carter; Ramadan” by Mona Simpson; Impertinent Daughters” by Doris Lessing; Family Album” by Mikal Gilmore; The Names of Women” by Louise Erdrich; and The Up Escalator” by Bret Easton Ellis.

The Granta Book of the Family

In this collection, Pulitzer prize-winning author Richard Ford brings together 11 of the finest examples of American long stories or novellas. Selecting at least one story from each decade since the 1940s, this anthology includes June Recital” by Eudora Welty; The Long March” by William Styron; Goodbye, Columbus” by Philip Roth; A Long Day in November” by Ernest J. Gaines; The Old Forest” by Peter Taylor; The Age of Grief” by Jane Smiley; I Lock My Door Upon Myself” by Joyce Carol Oates; and Hey, Have You Got a Cig, the Time, the News, My Face?” by Barry Hannah.

The Granta Book of the American Long Story

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