Linda Grant in conversation with Natasha Walter

Join us in the Original Gallery at Hornsey Library on Thursday, 19th October, when Linda Grant will be in conversation with Natasha Walter about her work, life, methods and more. Linda Grant is the author of four non-fiction books and nine novels. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and holds honorary doctorates from the University of York and John Moores University. Her latest novel, The Story of the Forest, published in 2023, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Amongst her other awards are the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Wingate Literary Prize. Natasha Walter is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, a journalist and human rights campaigner. She is a graduate of Cambridge and Harvard, and has worked as a columnist, reviewer and feature writer for the Guardian, Vogue and the Independent. Natasha is the founder of the charity Women for Refugee Women, where she was the director for 15 years. Her most recent book, Before the Light Fades: A Memoir of Grief and Resistance, is published by Virago in August 2023. It explores Natasha's grief following her mother's suicide, and her family's legacy of political resistance.