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The house in the waves
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James Hamilton-Paterson |
Having spent most of his life in foster homes and institutions, a fourteen-year-old withdraws into himself until a strange message on the beach takes him back to another time. |
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Love Stories
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Jonathan Kaplan,Raymond Carver,James Hamilton-Paterson,Ian Jack,W. G. Sebald,Peter Ho Davies,Keith Fleming,David Malouf,Daniel Meadows,Lydia Davis,Ruth Gershon,Aleksander Hermon,Orhan Pamuk |
This issue of Granta is dedicated to love, or more often the lack of it, the loss of it, and the search for it. It includes stories about sibling rivalry, about rediscovering parental love, and about… |
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Hostage!
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James Hamilton-Paterson |
Mistakenly kidnapped by a guerrilla group, the son of an American oil executive discovers that as the weeks of his captivity pass he is less and less sure which side he wants to be on. |
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Marked for death
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James Hamilton-Paterson |
Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. The romance of aviation had a remarkable grip on the public imagination, propaganda focus… |
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Empire of the Clouds
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James Hamilton-Paterson |
In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of jet aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. How did Britain so lose the plot that today there is not a single … |
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Under the radar
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James Hamilton-Paterson |
1961. A squadron of Vulcan aircraft, Britain's most lethal nuclear bomber, flies towards the east coast of the United States. Highly manoeuvrable, the great delta-winged machines are also equipped wi… |
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