Grove Press imprint: 1036 books
The Bible
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
As the single work at the heart of Christianity, the world’s largest organized religion, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. It is also the world’s most widely distributed book and its best-selling, with an estimated six billion copies sold in the last...
by Tim Parks
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: A deliciously entertaining account of expatriate life in a small village just outside Verona, Italy.
Tim Parks is anything but a gentleman in Verona. So after ten years of living with his Italian wife, Rita, in a typical provincial Italian neighborhood,...
Brunetti's Venice
Walks with the City's Best-Loved Detective
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
An armchair traveler’s companion to Donna Leon’s Brunetti mysteries: “a splendid present for mystery-fiction fans [or] travel-lit buffs” (Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal).
Follow Commissario Guido Brunetti, star of Donna Leon’s international bestselling mystery series, on over...
Ambient
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
One man struggles to survive in a dystopian near-future New York City in this acclaimed novel that “performs feats of brilliance on so many levels” (Entertainment Weekly).
In a decaying and violent near-future New York, the remnants of civic order are maintained with brute force by the conglomerate...
Bohemian Paris
Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“[An] epic account of life and loves among artists and writers in Paris from belle époque to world slump.” —William Feaver, The Spectator**
A legendary capital of the arts, Paris hosted some of the most legendary developments in world culture—particularly at the beginning of the twentieth...
by Anton Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Anton Chekhov was a master whose daring work revolutionized theater, and this was as true of Ivanov, his first full-length play, as of The Cherry Orchard, his last. Building on the success of his acclaimed adaptation of The Seagull, Tom Stoppard returns to Chekhov and the themes of bitter social satire,...
Off to the Side
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Jim Harrison traces his upbringing in Michigan amid the austerities of the Depression and the Second World War.
In this “sprawling, impressionistic memoir”, which was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Jim Harrison chronicles his coming-of-age, from a boy drunk with...
The Unknown Night
The Genius and Madness of R. A. Blakelock, an American Painter
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“The best book yet written about this neglected and fascinating American painter” who anticipated abstract expressionism by more than fifty years (Gail Levin, The New York Times Book Review).
At the dawn of the 20th century, Ralph Blakelock’s brooding, hallucinogenic paintings were a...
Charles Bukowski
Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“A lively portrait of American literature’s ‘Dirty Old Man’.” —Library Journal
A former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Charles Bukowski was the author of autobiographical novels that captured the low life—including Post...
Howard Hawks
The Grey Fox of Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The first major biography of one of Old Hollywood’s greatest directors.
Sometime partner of the eccentric Howard Hughes, drinking buddy of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, an inveterate gambler and a notorious liar, Howard Hawks was the most modern of the great masters and one of the first...
Untouchable
The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
"A dishy Michael Jackson biography that makes the exhaustively covered King of Pop fascinating all over again."-PeopleThe first deep-dive narrative by a veteran journalist covering the King of Pop’s convoluted final years on earth . . . [Untouchable] helps cast Jackson in a new light.”-Los Angeles...
All Tomorrow's Parties
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
“In this carefully wrought coming-of-age memoir, a young American writer searches for home in an unlikely place: East Berlin immediately after the fall of the wall.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Rob Spillman—the award-winning, charismatic cofounding editor of the legendary Tin House...
The Great Silence
Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This account of British life in the wake of World War I is “social history at its very best . . . insightful and utterly absorbing” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).
As the euphoria of Armistice Day in 1918 quickly subsided, there was no denying the carnage that the Great War had left in its...
The Perfect Summer
England 1911, Just Before the Storm
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2008
A “sparkling social history” that brings the twilight of the Edwardian era to life (Entertainment Weekly).
The Perfect Summer chronicles a glorious English summer just over a century ago, when the world was on the cusp of irrevocable change. That summer of 1911, a new king was crowned and...