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Linda Grant

Linda Grant was born in Liverpool. From 1995-2000 she was a feature writer for the Guardian, where between 1997 and 1998 she also had a weekly column in G2

February 2019

  • No more glasses of chilled rosé in the garden?

    We’re fixated by giving things up. After Dry January, I’m saying yes to indulgence

    Linda Grant
    Enough with modern-day abstinence – it’s simply a desperate bid for self-control

October 2018

  • David Niven, a stalwart of Talking Pictures.

    Nostalgia doesn’t come more joyous than this

    Linda Grant
    Tune into Talking Pictures and wallow in a perfect antidote to today’s many ills

May 2018

  • PHILIP ROTH<br>** FILE ** Novelist Philip Roth sits inside a screened tent at his home on Sept. 5, 2005, in Warren, Conn. After having said so since 1983, Roth now says he’s really finished with Nathan Zuckerman, his most enduring protagonist.(AP Photo/Douglas Healey)

    ‘Savagely funny and bitingly honest’ – 14 writers on their favourite Philip Roth novels

    One of America’s greatest novelists, Philip Roth died this week, aged 85. From 1959’s Goodbye, Columbus to 2010’s Nemesis, 14 acclaimed writers including William Boyd, David Baddiel, Linda Grant and Joyce Carol Oates pick their favourite work

December 2017

  • TOM GAULD for REVIEW cover 171223 quiz

    You may confer: test your knowledge of literature, music and art – Christmas quiz

    What food did Samuel Pepys bury in his backyard? Which dystopian novelist had a ‘hopeless’ love affair with cricket? And how many words did Enid Blyton write per day?

December 2016

  • THOMOND - 03/08//2006 - Independent record shops - Piccadilly Records in Manchester. Guardian G2 / Laura Barton copy.

    Music blog
    Independent thinking: can music shops survive on today's high street?

    Small retailers everywhere are struggling to compete with online competition. But one classical music store in north London is surviving - and even thriving

November 2016

  • a still from the 2009 TV adaptation of Small Island by Andrea Levy.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about postwar Britain

  • Linda Grant Alan Vest

    My writing day
    Linda Grant: ‘I can't write after lunch, in a public place, or when anyone is in the house'

September 2016

  • Louiza Patikas, who plays Helen Titchener in The Archers.

    Louiza Patikas: ‘I’ve read scripts and thought, I don’t want this to happen to Helen – I can’t bear it’

    The actor’s gritty portrayal of Helen in The Archers has gripped the nation. As her character awaits a jury’s verdict for stabbing her controlling husband, she explains how the role has affected her

June 2016

  • Young people protest on Parliament Square the day after the majority of the British public voted to leave the EU.

    Don’t blame all babyboomers for Brexit

    Linda Grant
    My generation didn’t have it as easy as people think, so when it came to the referendum, many voted with nothing to protect

April 2016

  • Paula Rego’s Come to Me from her Jane Eyre series. This is the final work in Rego’s series and shows Jane in her later years. ‘Come to me’ refers to the blind Rochester calling her.

    Jane Eyre by Sarah Waters, Margaret Drabble, Jeanette Winterson and others

    ‘The shock and thrill of discovering this book, aged 13, continues to run in my veins’ … On the bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, writers and artists reflect on her greatest creation

January 2016

  • LInda Grant: ‘

    The gift I'll never forget
    A friend’s marital woes forced me to write my first novel

    Linda Grant
    As a friend listed all her soon-to-be ex-husband’s myriad faults, she unwittingly gave me the best advice I’ve ever received

December 2015

  • London Cyclists Take On The City<br>A businessman hurries to cross the road in front of a group of cyclists as they wait at the traffic lights at the junction of Grosvenor Road, and Vauxhall Bridge Road on a section of the Cycle Superhighway 8 (CS8) in London, U.K., on Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Bikes account for 24 percent of rush-hour traffic in central London and the number of people cycling to work in the city more than doubled from 2001 to 2011, according to the Office for National Statistics. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    OK, maybe cyclists aren’t all bad – but the pedestrian’s lot is not a happy one today

    Linda Grant
    After a nasty experience at a T-junction, cyclists are starting to completely terrify me with their unpredictability and aggression. I know they don’t all break the rules – and not all pedestrians behave as they should, either – but the fear is real

October 2015

  • Barack Obama with Marilynne Robinson

    Obama is right: reading is what connects us to others – even a French puffin

    Linda Grant
    On this I agree with the president – fiction is what makes us comfortable with a complicated world. So why so many of us go off it in the end?

September 2015

  • Two Engaged Archers<br>6th December 1954: Actors Ysanne Churchman and Norman Painting recording an episode of the radio series 'The Archers' in which they play the engaged couple Grace Fairbrother and Philip Archer. (Photo by Fred Morley/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

    The note from a fictional dead dog that taught me why The Archers will never end

    Linda Grant
  • MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbot at a demonstration outside The Department of Transport against new road proposals.

    Love on the left? That’s all we had in the 1970s

    Linda Grant

July 2015

  • Linda Grant for Saturday Review

    The Audio Long Read
    How to rebuild a political party – from the ground up

    In 2010, Linda Grant joined the Labour party as a vague gesture of solidarity, and found her local branch in chaos. Before long, she was the second most powerful official in her ward. Four years later, they won

June 2015

  • A Labour party supporter waits for Ed Milliband to address a rally in front of Hornsey Town Hall in Crouch End, North London, in the final days before the 2015 General Election.

    The long read
    How to rebuild a political party – from the ground up

    The long read: In 2010, Linda Grant joined the Labour party as a vague gesture of solidarity, and found her local branch in chaos. Before long, she was the second most powerful official in her ward. Four years later, they won

April 2015

  • Joni Mitchell

    It’s not always easy to be a Joni Mitchell fan, but her illness devastates me

    Linda Grant
    Joni Mitchell is one of the greats, indisputably, and her increasingly frail health is, to a superfan like me, a terribly sad thing to see – however angry, bitter and paranoid she seems to have become

February 2015

  • Housing Stock<br>Embargoed to 0001 Saturday April 18 File photo dated 01/03/15 of a row of Sold, For Sale and Let By signs displayed outside houses in Clapton, east London, as the battle between lenders to chop down the mortgage rates on offer has intensified, with a company unveiling a new five-year deal with a record low rate of under 2%. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Saturday April 18, 2015. On Monday, HSBC said it will launch a five-year fixed-rate mortgage with a rate of 1.99%. Experts said this is the lowest rate deal of its type that they have ever seen on the market. See PA story MONEY Mortgage. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire

    The Audio Long Read
    Listen to an audio version of Linda Grant's life in property - Podcast

  • Property in Britain has

    The long read
    How I won the housing market (without really trying)

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