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Dulwich Books are delighted to host Orange Prize Winner and Man Booker Prize shortlisted author, Linda Grant in the bookshop on Tuesday 1st July.


Linda Grant is one of the UK?s most highly respected authors and she will be here to talk about her new novel ?Upstairs at the Party.?


?Upstairs at the Party? is set in the early seventies, a glamorous and androgynous couple known collectively as Evie/Stevie appear out of nowhere on the isolated concrete campus of a new university. To a group of teenagers experimenting with radical ideas they seem blown back from the future, unsettling everything and uncovering covert desires. But the varnished patina of youth and flamboyant self-expression hides deep anxieties and hidden histories. For Adele, with the most to conceal, Evie/Stevie become a lifelong obsession, as she examines what happened on the night of her own twentieth birthday and her friends? complicity in their fate. A set of school exercise books might reveal everything, but they have been missing for nearly forty years. From summers in Cornwall to London in the twenty-first century, long after they have disappeared, Evie/Stevie go on challenging everyone?s ideas of what their lives should turn out to be.


Linda Grant is a novelist and journalist. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000 and the Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage in 2006, and was longlisted for the Man Booker in 2002 for ?Still Here.? ?The Clothes on Their Backs? was shortlisted for the Man Booker in 2008 and went on to win the South Bank Show Award.


Don?t miss this fantastic opportunity to hear Linda in Dulwich this summer.


This event will take place at Dulwich Books on Tuesday 1st July at 7pm. Tickets include a signed copy of ?Upstairs at the Party? (RRP ?14.99) with early bird tickets priced at ?8. Bookable online from www.lindagrant.eventbrite.co.uk, via telephone on 020 8670 1920, via email: [email protected] or in person in the bookshop.


Dulwich Books, 6 Croxted Road, West Dulwich, SE21 8SW 0208 670 1920

www.dulwichbooks.co.uk [email protected]

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  • 2 weeks later...

The early bird offer has now expired and tickets are now ?10 but do come with a signed hardback copy of Linda Grant's brand new novel. With her strong showing on literary prize lists of past, it's a strong possibility this book is one people will talk about.


Loads more details available on our website! http://dulwichbooks.co.uk/2014/06/06/linda-grant-in-dulwich-books-tuesday-1st-july/


Hope to see some of you there

The Dulwich Books Team

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