A01=Ian Jack
Author_Ian Jack
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Product details
- ISBN 9780903141901
- Weight: 355g
- Dimensions: 145 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jan 2007
- Publisher: Granta Publications Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 photographs by Simon Norfolk, words by Neal Ascherson.
Ian Jack edited Granta from 1995 to 2007, having previously edited the Independent on Sunday. He has written on many subjects, including the Titanic, Kathleen Ferrier, the Hatfield train crash and the three members of the IRA active-service unit who were killed on Gibraltar. He is the editor of The Granta Book of Reportage and The Granta Book of India, and the author of a collection of journalism, The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain. He lives in London and now writes for the Guardian.
