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Linda Grant

Linda Grant
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Linda Grant

Linda Grant is a novelist and journalist. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000 and the Lettre Ulysses Prize for the Art of Reportage in 2006. Her most recent novel, The Clothes on Their Backs, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. She writes for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and Vogue.

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We Had It So Good
Apr 28, 2012
We Had It So Good will be released on April 03, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Apr 03, 2012
We Had It So Good is now available in Trade Paperback
Apr 03, 2012
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Oct 06, 2011
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Excerpt 1 from We Had It So Good
Jun 18, 2011
We Had It So Good will be released on April 26, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Apr 26, 2011
We Had It So Good is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Apr 26, 2011
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Apr 09, 2011
The Thoughtful Dresser will be released on April 20, 2010 in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook
Apr 20, 2010
The Thoughtful Dresser is now available in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook
Apr 20, 2010
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Chapter 1 from The Thoughtful Dresser
Apr 03, 2010
The Clothes On Their Backs will be released on November 25, 2008 in Trade Paperback
Nov 25, 2008
The Clothes On Their Backs is now available in Trade Paperback
Nov 25, 2008
The Clothes On Their Backs will be released on November 25, 2008 in Hardcover
Nov 25, 2008
The Clothes On Their Backs is now available in Hardcover
Nov 25, 2008
The Clothes On Their Backs will be released on November 25, 2008 in eBook
Nov 25, 2008

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Guardian.co.uk, June 6, 2013
...May We Be Forgiven by AM Homes (Granta) Claire Armitstead Mark Brown Robert McCrum AM Homes Natasha Walter Linda Grant Tim Maby        ...
Booktrade - Book2Book, April 16, 2013
...Martin for Property (2003), Ann Patchett for Bel Canto (2002), Kate Grenville for The Idea of Perfection (2001), Linda Grant for When I Lived in Modern Times (2000), Suzanne Berne for A Crime in the Neighbourhood (1999), Carol Shields for Larry's Party...
Guardian.co.uk, April 16, 2013
...known as the Orange since it was first awarded, to Helen Dunmore, in 1996. Other winners have included Linda Grant, Ann Patchett, Andrea Levy and Marilynne Robinson. A number of people, including Cherie Blair and Joanna Trollope, stepped in last year...
Guardian.co.uk, March 30, 2013
...Louis Armstrong took the train from New Orleans to Chicago. Kevin Jackson tells the story. (18 May) Feminism Linda Grant and Peter Hitchens: Feminism and the Sexual Revolution Fifty years on from the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine...
MumsNet, March 25, 2013
...is like holding a delicate yet devastating crystal ball, containing strange, shape-shifting visions of the lives of others. Linda Grant put it best, in her Financial Times review: McGregor is the contemporary master of lives lived in what the Irish call...
The Independent, March 1, 2013
...turn to, though her own head is as bashed against the wall of futility as everybody else's. Linda Grant's books include 'The People on the Street: a writer's view of Israel' (Virago...
Guardian.co.uk, February 22, 2013
...She is one of the 20th-century's greats: a novelist of yearning, rage and desire whose unadorned prose hits the solar plexus When I was in my 20s in the 1970s I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because the first impressions were so...
Guardian.co.uk, June 8, 2013
...nor boys' clubby. I have also reviewed Howard Jacobson, who appears in the next paragraph, on several occasions. Linda Grant's experience of being reviewed bears this out: "It's odd that in an art form such as the novel, written by so many women and...
Guardian.co.uk, June 6, 2013
...May We Be Forgiven by AM Homes (Granta) Claire Armitstead Mark Brown Robert McCrum AM Homes Natasha Walter Linda Grant Tim Maby        ...
Guardian.co.uk, June 6, 2013
...May We Be Forgiven by AM Homes (Granta) Claire Armitstead Mark Brown Robert McCrum AM Homes Natasha Walter Linda Grant Tim Maby        ...
Mail Online UK, June 5, 2013
...Some of you have asked if there is a recording of my discussion of the Sexual Revolution with Linda Grant , which took place on Sunday 19th May at the Bristol Festival of Ideas. Here it is.My thanks to Luke Major, who sent me this link: June 5, 2013...
Rockdale Citizen, June 4, 2013
...Porterdale GA, Keith and Leslie Grant of Fort Myers FL, Tanya and Gary Bingham of Douglasville GA, Aunt Linda Grant of Covington GA, numerous cousins and several great aunts. He is preceded in death by Grandparents Guy and Nell Grant and Uncle Danny...
UK Nigeria Online, June 3, 2013
...American novels: Stoner by John Williams. Almost perfect...” Julian Barnes is said to be a fan, as is Linda Grant; Geoff Dyer calls it a “beautiful and moving novel, as sweeping, intimate and mysterious as life itself”, while Adam Foulds says that...
The Independent, June 3, 2013
...novels: Stoner by John Williams. Almost perfect..." Julian Barnes is said to be a fan, as is Linda Grant; Geoff Dyer calls it a "beautiful and moving novel, as sweeping, intimate and mysterious as life itself", while Adam Foulds says that it is...