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← Back to all issuesGranta 119: Britain
Spring 2012
Broken Britain? This issue of Granta is a celebration of the nation’s past and present, its people, its land – and the deep connections between them. The stories, poems and memoirs in this collection show the delicate human interactions within the sometimes brutal context of historical and contemporary Britain. There is no other place like it.
From this Issue
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1964
Robin Robertson
Under the gritted lid of winter, each ice-puddle’s broken plate cracked to a star. The...
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Dreams of a Leisure Society
Adam Foulds
‘They were citizens of a multidimensional universe and they liked to get high.’
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Theatre of Fortune
Nikolai Khalezin & Natalia Kaliada
Introduction The Belarus Free Theatre announced itself seven years ago by email. Along with a...
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Sugar in the Blood
Andrea Stuart
My earliest identifiable ancestor, George Ashby, was one of the many thousands of Englishmen who...
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Cofiwch Dryweryn
Jamie McKendrick
‘Remember Tryweryn’ – graffiti near Aberystwyth Soft water from Tryweryn reservoir was at our fingertips...
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Hands Across the Water
Rachel Seiffert
I Graham was eighteen and rubbish at talking to females. He looked like a grown...
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The Gun
Mark Haddon
Daniel stands in the funnel, a narrow path between two high brick walls that join...
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The Dig
Cynan Jones
The boy had not slept. He was gawky and awkward and had not grown into...
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The Celt
Mario Vargas Llosa
Pentonville Prison, 1916 When they opened the door to his cell, the street noise that...
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The Making of the English Landscape
Simon Armitage
It’s too late now to start collecting football shirts, bringing them back from trips abroad...
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Stevenage
Gary Younge
In 1988 my mother took the bus to Stevenage town centre to do the weekly...
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Lion and Panther in London
Tania James
‘Gama has defeated them all, and more, but how is he to be Champion of the World if this half of the world is in hiding?’
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Home
John Burnside & et al
A wall of Post-it notes commemorating a riot; scrawled graffiti on a backstreet wall;...
