A beguiling, laugh-out-loud story of friendship and prickly, ever-elusive love; for readers of Miranda July, Sheila Heti and Tao Lin

From our CD collections to iPods bursting with MP3s to the hallowed vinyl of DJs, recordings are the most common way we experience music. This book tells the story of recorded music, introducing us to the innovators, musicians and producers who have affected the way we hear our favorite songs, ranging from Thomas Edison to Phil Spector.

A big-think book which tells the riveting story of GPS (Global Positioning System) and how it is affecting our brains, our technology, and our culture, in the tradition of James Gleick and Nicholas Carr.

The third part of the Nobel Prize Winner's classic autobiography, reissued by Granta in a stunning new paperback edition.

"Guardian" columnist the author is one of the most high-profile commentators in Britain. After her father's death, wanting to understand him better, she began to explore his passionate, lifelong attachment to a small plot of land in North Yorkshire. This title uncovers traces of the plot's Neolithic inhabitants and of the Cistercian monks.

'A brilliant collection of anecdote and reportage from a supreme master of the craft' Daily Mail

Elif Batuman's comical treatise on reading Russian literature introduces an exciting and original new talent.

A dazzling second novel from the author whose debut was compared to Sarah Waters and Daphne Du Maurier and won her tens of thousands of readers ...