Granta Books

Ireland is flooded, derelict. It never stops raining. The kid in yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie King. Why? Something to do with the King's daughter, and a talking statue, something godawful. And from every wall the King's Eye watches. And yet the city is full of hearts-defiant-sprayed in yellow, the mark of the kid....

Lose yourself in the irresistible story of one woman's journey through 20th-century Russia. Growing up in 1930s Brooklyn, Florence Fein will do anything to escape the confining values of her family and her city, and create a life of meaning and consequence. When a new job and a love affair lead her to Moscow, she doesn't think twice about...

In New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer.At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, is detained by immigration. Somehow their lives are connected, in this unconventional love story that has things to say about all of contemporary life....

A History of the Modern MenopauseFor over two thousand years, attitudes to the menopause have created dread, shame and confusion. This meticulously researched and always entertaining book traces the history of 'the change of life' from its appearance in classical texts, via the medical literature of the eighteenth century, to up-to-the-minute...

An assured novel which imagines Leonardo da Vinci's life, shedding light on the many enigmas surrounding him, such as the painting of the 'Mona Lisa', and his relationship with its subject, Lisa del Giocondo....