Grove Press imprint: 1036 books
A Certain Curve of Horn
The Hundred-Year Quest for the Giant Sable Antelope of Angola
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2004
“Walker . . . weaves a surprisingly fascinating story around one animal, involving colonialism, revolution, biology, and politics . . . Hard to put down.” —Booklist
In A Certain Curve of Horn, veteran journalist John Frederick Walker tells the story of one of the most revered and endangered...
Ninety Degrees North
The Quest for the North Pole
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The author of Barrow’s Boys offers a fascinating look at the exploration of the Arctic in the nineteenth century.
Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, the Seattle Times, Publishers Weekly, and Time
In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole...
Barrow's Boys
A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
From the author of Ninety Degrees North, a spellbinding account of how officers of the British Navy explored the world after the Napoleonic Wars.
In 1816, John Barrow, second secretary to the British admiralty, launched the most ambitious program of exploration the world has ever seen. For...
by Ray Loriga
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
This dreamlike dystopian novel “shines a dark spotlight on the modern allure of pharmaceuticals’ seeming power to assuage all ills” (Booklist).
Set in the very near future, this is the story of a traveling salesman floating from arid Arizona parking lots to steamy Bangkok bars and beyond...
Oral Pleasure
Kosinski as Storyteller
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
“[This] new collection of Jerzy Kosinski’s interviews and speeches reveals an Everyman who worked on his own terms . . . A most welcome body of texts that elucidates a rather mysterious persona.” —Tablet
Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller is a collection of interviews, lectures,...
Frankie's Place
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“A joy to read—a portrait of a place, a way of life, and a marriage by a reporter who turns out to be the world’s last extant romantic.” —Joan Didion
In this Tracy-Hepburn romance, a sophisticated New York intellectual is charmed by a down-to-earth newspaperman. Frankie’s Place...
Into Tibet
The CIA's First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasa
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “fascinating” story of espionage that “fills a blank space in the hidden history of the Cold War” (Houston Chronicle).
Into Tibet is the incredible story of a 1949–1950 American undercover expedition led by America’s first atomic agent, Douglas S. Mackiernan—a covert attempt...
by Jon A. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A wily lady thief is groomed for mafia infamy in this “masterpiece of diabolical design” from the author of Deadman (The New York Times Book Review).
Helen Sedlacek thought that when she stole millions from the mob, she’d be running for the rest of her life. So she’s more than a little...
by Jon A. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A criminal couple joins a nefarious underground organization in this novel full of “sharp characterization, vivid scenes, and offbeat humor” (The Oregonian).
When anyone in the Detroit underworld hears the names Joe Service and Helen Sedlacek, they know lots of trouble—and bullet-riddled...
Untamed
The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
An inspiring, thought-provoking, and adventurous biography of one woman’s fearless crusade to save an island from greed and environmental disaster.
In a “moving homage and an adventure story that artfully articulates the ferocities of nature and humanity,” Harlan captures the larger-than-life...
by Jerzy Kosinski
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Kosinski’s classic, acclaimed as “an impressive novel . . . should confirm [his] position as one of our most significant writers” (Newsweek).
A searing novel from a writer of international stature, The Devil Tree is a tale that combines the existential emptiness of Camus’s The Stranger...
by Yan Lianke
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Known for his controversial and experimental novels, the author of The Day the Sun Died delivers a scathing portrayal of China’s moral failings.
Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, Dream of Ding Village is based on a real-life blood-selling scandal in eastern China. The novel...
Troll
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
This internationally acclaimed winner of the Finlandia Award is “a brilliant and dark parable about the fluid boundaries between human and animal” (The Boston Globe).
Angel, a young photographer, comes home from a night of carousing to find a group of drunken teenagers in the courtyard...
by Sandra Newman
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
New York, late summer, 2000. A party in a spacious Manhattan apartment, hosted by a wealthy young activist. Dozens of idealistic twenty-somethings have impassioned conversations over takeout dumplings and champagne. The evening shines with the heady optimism of a progressive new millennium. A young...