Granta 85: Hidden Histories

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #85

by Ian Jack (Editor)

Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilisations: an issue of Granta that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked.

Genres: Anthologies, Literature, Fiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2004

About the author

Ian Jack is a British journalist and writer who has edited the Independent on Sunday and the literary magazine Granta and now writes regularly for The Guardian.

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Brian Cathcart's 'The Lives of Brian' was the best thing in this issue.

[Thom · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fantastic writing from all over the world. Sad, funny, and always sharp. This is one of the strongest issues in the journal's past few years.

[Bopha · Rating 3 out of 5]

great read. History from the bottom up. Histories without academic dead weights. Histories with humour and intellegence.

[Ruth · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best Granta collections I've read.