Events

Date
Location
Description
Ticket Price

Events - 2008


August
Edinburgh Festival

For details and booking: http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/


Friday 11th July,
8-9.30pm
University of Leicester
Unsettling Women



May
60 Duke St
Liverpool
L1 5AA
WOW festival in Liverpool

For details and booking: http://www.writingonthewall.org.uk


Saturday 30th April
Cambridge WordFest
In conversation with Melissa Benn and chaired by Christina Pattersons



Wednesday 16th April
7.00pm
Lecture Theatre 1
University of East Anglia
Norwich
UEA Spring Festival
(Waterstone’s)

For details and booking: Val Striker 01603 592 810 www1.uea.ac.uk


Saturday 5th April
6pm
Sunday Times
Oxford Literary Festival

For details and booking: http://www.sundaytimes-oxfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/


Thursday 3rd April
Chelmsford Library
Essex Book Festival

For details and booking: www.essexbookfestival.org.uk

11th March
6.00pm
Dymocks
Queen St store,
Auckland
In association with
Dymocks Booksellers

Contact: Doris Mousdale

10th March
7.30pm
Our City Otautahi
(opposite Rydges)
Christchurch
Women on Air on Plains FM
Tickets $10

Contact: Ruth Todd 384 4721 or Morrin 329 9789 or UBS

9th March
11.00am
Muirs Bookshop, Gisborne,
New Zealand
Literary Lunch

Contact: Christine Gordon 03 9341 7726 or 0437 004 711

6th March
6.30 - 7.00pm
709 Lygon Street, Carlton, 3053
In Conversation with Linda Grant

Contact: Christine Gordon 03 9341 7726 or 0437 004 711

6th March
7.30 - 9.00pm
Sunflower Bookshop, 434 Glenhuntley Rd, Elsternwick, 3185
Bookshop talk

Contact: Margaret Brenner 03 9523 6405 or 0412 535 294 margaret@sunflowerbookshop.com.au

5th March
4.45 - 5.30pm
West Tent,
Pioneer Women’s Memorial Gardens.
Adelaide,
Australia
‘Meet The Author’
with Linda Grant


4th March
2.15 - 3.30pm
West Tent,
Pioneer Women’s Memorial Gardens.
Adelaide,
Australia
‘The honesty and dishonesty of life writing’
with Robin Davidson, Peter Godwin, Linda Grant and William McInness


3rd March
8 - 10pm
Adelaide Town Hall,
King William Street, Adelaide,
Australia
Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts -
Writers Week
‘Evening with Visiting Writers’ with Linda Grant,
Denise Mina, Deborah Moggach, Tim Parks

Adult $28
Friends $24
Conc $15

For details and booking: http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/Default.aspx?p=1

26th February
7pm

The Arts House,
S
ingapore

The British Council

For details and booking: http://www.britishcouncil.org/singapore-whats-on-linda-grant.htm?mtklink=singapore-whats-on-linda-grant

Sunday 24th February
6.30pm
Royal National Hotel,
London
Jewish Book Week
Chaired by Rachel Seiffert

For details and booking: http://www.jewishbookweek.com/2008/programme.php


Tuesday 5th February
7.15pm
Conference Room
Warwick Arts Centre
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
Event chaired by
Maureen Freely

For details and booking: Emma McCormack, House Manager +44 (0)24 7652 8125
www.warwickartscentre.co.uk


Friday 25th January
London's Resonance FM

For details and booking: Neil Denny 07889 704926 www.littleatoms.com


Events - 2006


August/September
Further details
to be announced
Edinburgh Book Festival


May/June
Further details
to be announced
Hay on Wye Literary Festival


Thursday 23rd March
Daunts Books
83 Marylebone High Street, London, W1M 3DE
Tel: 020 7 224 2295

http://www.dauntbooks.co.uk/
In conversation with
Boyd Tonkin, Literary Editor, The Independent


Wednesday 8th March
County Hall
West Bridgeford, Nottingham NG2 7QP
Enquiries: Ross Bradshaw on 0115 977 4435
Strong Words Festival


Tuesday 28th February 7.30pm
Culanu Centre
33 Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 1UW
Tel: 01223 307 755
Jewish Book Week on Tour, Cambridge. With Adam LeBor, author City of Oranges.

For details and booking: http://www.jewishbookweek.com/2006/260206d.php


Sunday 26th February 12.30pm
Jewish Book Week, London
Linda Grant is interviewed by Jonathan Freedland.

For details and booking: http://www.jewishbookweek.com/2006/260206d.php


Monday 20th February
BBC Radio Four
Start the Week



Events - 2003


6th-8th November 2003
University of Lleida,
Catalunya, Spain
Keynote speaker

The Art of Ageing: An International, Interdisciplinary Conference on Textualising the Phases of Life



25th October 2003 11.00pm-16.00pm
RIBA/V&A Critical Debate
Buildings, Meanings and People

Lecture Theatre

Speakers include Linda Grant; Daniel Libeskind, architect of the Jewish Museum, Berlin; Richard Sennett, chair of The Cities Programme at the London School of Economics; Stephen Poliakoff, film and television writer, Langlands & Bell (Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell) the artists whose exhibition The House of Osama bin Laden was shown earlier this year at The Imperial War Museum. Chaired by Patrick Wright.


Saturday 17th May
8.30pm - 10.00pm
New Zealand
Regatta Room, Hyatt Regency
Girls’ Night Out
Linda Grant, Kim Mahood, Aminatta Forna, Annie Proulx
TICKETEK: $25
DOOR: $28


Thursday 16th May
12.00pm - 1.30pm
New Zealand
Regatta Room A,
Hyatt Regency
The New Zealand Herald Lunch: with Linda Grant

Chaired by Gordon McLauchlan.
TICKETEK: $60


Thursday 15th May
8.00pm - 9.30pm
AucklandFestival,
New Zealand
Regatta Room, Hyatt Regency
Linda Grant, Jonathan Franzen, William Dalrymple
TICKETEK: $25
DOOR: $28



Events - 2002


August 30 -
September 1
Melbourne
The Age Writers Festival


Sunday 18 August
The Screenbase
Studio Theatre
Edinburgh Book Festival


Saturday 29 June
Essex Readers Day


Sat 1 June - 1.00pm
Hay on Wye Literary Festival


Thurs 16 May - 10.00am
Daphne Du Maurier Festival
Fowey Cornwal
In conversation with David Aaronivitch, columnist on the Independent


Thurs 9 May - 1.00pm
Swindon Literary Festival
Orange Prize Sponsored Event