Granta. 85

Granta. 85 Synopsis

This issue of Granta excavates histories both personal and political: repressed memories, unexplored lives, forgotten wars, secret careers. EUROPE'S LONG-LOST WAR Giles Foden sails down Lake Tanganyika in search of the true story of the naval adventure that inspired The African Queen WRITING LIKE A MAN James Erdal reveals her life as a literary ghostwriter THE CHILD I DID NOT HAVE Diana Athill remembers the baby she wanted but never had A PROTESTANT BOY Geoffrey Beattie revisits his unfashionable Ulster heritage 'HE JUST LIT YER MAN' Brian Cathcart investigates how his poor namesake came to be burned alive NEED TO THE BRAIN Daniel Smith delves into the mysteries of psychosurgery - one man's last, best hope WITH a portfolio of colour photographs by David J. Spear on the private life of a priest PLUS new fiction by Orhan Pamuk, Anne Enright, T. C. Boyle, Jackie Kay, Robert Lennon and Jonathan Tel