Linda Grant News and Updates

What happens when you begin to build a library in childhood and then find you have too many books?   From a small collection held together by a pair of plaster of Paris horse-head bookends […]

Virago are delighted to announce that Linda Grant’s new novel, entitled Upstairs at the Party, will be published this summer on July 3rd.   Upstairs at the Party is a powerful and captivating novel about […]

Linda Grant will be appearing at Wood Green Literary Festival on Sunday October 13th. For details and tickets see here.

Linda Grant will be appearing at the Jaipur Literature Festival in 2013. The details of her appearances are below, and you can find more information on the Jaipur Literature Festival website. 24th Jan – 6pm […]

Linda will be making a number of public appearances in the next few weeks. Please contact the relevant organisers or venue (as specified below) for more information about any of these events. And please remember […]

Linda will be a guest of Sky Arts Channel’s The Book Show this week, talking to Mariella Frostrup about her new novel We Had It So Good. The other guests on this week’s show are […]

Today sees the publication of Linda’s brand new novel, We Had It So Good. It’s published by Virago and is available in hardback, from all good bookstores and online retailers. We Had It So Good […]

Linda’s new novel We Had It So Good was featured on BBC Radio 4′ Saturday Review programme on January 15th. Listen to the show at www.bbc.co.uk. The lengthy and wide-ranging discussion of We Had It […]

Reviews of Linda’s new novel, We Had It So Good have been pouring in ahead of its official publication date on Thursday (January 20th). Here is a selection of the ones we’ve seen so far: […]

Linda has been interviewed by Susanna Ruston for The Guardian. The interview, which was published on Saturday January 15th, covers Linda’s life, work and background, particularly in the context of the inspiration behind her new […]

Linda was interviewed for the Front Row on BBC Radio 4 last night and talked about the inspiration for and major themes within her brand new novel We Had It So Good. You can listen […]

Linda Grant’s brilliant understanding of the innocence and idealism of the 1960s generation who have grown into uncomfortable middle-age made her the perfect novelist for Channel 4’s news last night. Her new novel, We Had […]