Linda Grant Knihy

This compulsively readable novel recreates a lost time, when the future was more important than the past and anything seemed possible.

Orange Prize Winner and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008, Llinda Grant has created an enchanting portrait of a woman who, having endured unbearable loss, finds solace in the family secrets her estranged uncle reveals.Vivien Kovacs, sensitive and bookish, grows up sealed off from the world by her timid Hungarian refugee parents. She loses herself in books and reinvents herself according to her favorite characters, but it is through clothes that she ultimately defines herself. Against her father’s wishes, she forges a relationship with her estranged uncle, a notorious criminal, who, in his old age, wants to share his life story. As he reveals the truth about her family’s past, Vivien, having endured unbearable loss, learns how to be comfortable in her own skin and how to be alive in the world. Linda Grant is a spectacularly humanizing writer whose morally complex characters explore the line between selfishness and self-preservation. In vivid and supple prose, Grant has created a powerful story of family, love, and the hold the past has on the present.

Focusing on essential pronunciation skills, this series targets students from beginner to advanced levels, emphasizing stress, rhythm, and intonation. It includes a structured course plan and over fifty pages of supplemental activities dedicated to consonant and vowel sounds. The intermediate to advanced level introduces crucial pronunciation features, while a free website offers access to the complete audio program for both teachers and students, enhancing the learning experience.

This volume was conceived as a "best practices" resource for pronunciation and speaking teachers in the way that Vocabulary Myths by Keith S. Folse is one for reading and vocabulary teachers. Like others in the Myths series, this book combines research with good pedagogical practices.The book opens with a Prologue by Linda Grant (author of the Well Said textbook series), which reviews the last four decades of pronunciation teaching, the differences between accent and intelligibility, the rudiments of the English sound system, and other factors related to the ways that pronunciation is learned and taught.The myths challenged in this book are:§  Once you’ve been speaking a second language for years, it’s too late to change your pronunciation. (Derwing and Munro)§  Pronunciation instruction is not appropriate for beginning-level learners. (Zielinski and Yates)§  Pronunciation teaching has to establish in the minds of language learners a set of distinct consonant and vowel sounds.  (Field)§  Intonation is hard to teach. (Gilbert)§  Students would make better progress if they just practiced more. (Grant)§  Accent reduction and pronunciation instruction are the same thing. (Thomson)§  Teacher training programs provide adequate preparation in how to teach pronunciation (Murphy).The book concludes with an Epilogue by Donna M. Brinton, who synthesizes some of the best practices explored in the volume.

'A skilful, moving, even humorous book. It is more than an elegy for a lost mother or the charting of one human being's decline ... It is an investigation of memory, which concludes that Memory, I have come to understand, is everything, it's life itself' Scotland on Sunday

Virago are reissuing this wonderful first novel by Man Booker-shortlisted author Linda Grant

Linda Grant's 'best novel yet' (Financial Times) is a thoughtful and engaging story of a London family from the late sixties to the present

Irreverent archaeologist Dr Henry 'Indiana' Jones scours the furthest corners of the planet for priceless artifacts, hungry for knowledge about ancient civilizations. Though his quick wit, resourcefulness, and dashing good looks have gotten him this far, what happens when his Nazi foes attempt to wake the dead through sorcery?

The highly-acclaimed writer, Linda Grant, attempts to try and understand the Israeli situation. 'Although I am not an Israeli, but a Diaspora Jew, I think that it is the eye of the novelist, who coming from the outside, can often see what others do not.

This wonderfully gossipy novel whisks readers through the glamorous worlds of turn-of-the-century Vienna, Paris and London.