was the generalised middle-class English voice, which always felt to me like ventriloquism. And I didn’t feel that I could write like an American Jewish author such as Philip Roth, who shows how Jewish Americans, like Irish Americans and Italian Americans, have contributed to American national identity, because by the time the Jews arrived here, British national identity had already been formed. And that’s why my first novel, The Cast Iron Shore, is about somebody who feels marginal. It was only when I started writing about people who are marginal, who have problematic identities and problems with belonging, that I found my voice. Grant's choices of her favourite pieces of classical music were broadcast as part of BBC Radio 3's Saturday Classics in June 2012. In November 2016, The Guardian newspaper published a detailed account of Grant's writing process, in which she noted, "My rituals of writing are so calcified I could be an elderly colonel at his gentleman's club: ironed newspaper, tea piping hot, shoes the correct colour for in town. Without the scaffolding of my habits, I'm superstitiously convinced I'd never write a word. I don't – can't – write after lunch, in a cafe or any other public place, including trains and planes, or when anyone else is in the house. It's an act of severe, intense solitude, partly now destroyed by the internet, and its deceptive promise of the ease of looking things up as you go along." Bibliography Non fiction Sexing the Millennium: A Political History of the Sexual Revolution. HarperCollins (London) 1993 Remind Me Who I Am, Again Granta Books (London) 1998 The People on the Street, a writer's view of Israel, Virago Press (London) 2006 The Thoughtful Dresser, Virago Press (London) 2009 Fiction The Cast Iron Shore, Granta Books (London) 1995 When I Lived in Modern Times, Granta Books (London) 2000 Still Here, Little Brown May (London) 2002 The Clothes on Their Backs, Virago Press (London) 2008 We Had It So Good, Virago Press (London) 2011 Upstairs at the Party, Virago Press (London) 2014 The Dark Circle, Virago Press (London) 2016 A Stranger City, Virago Press (London) 2019 Awards Grant's début novel, The Cast Iron Shore, won the David Higham Prize for Fiction in 1996; awarded to the best first novel of the year. Three years later her second, non-fiction, work, Remind Me Who I Am Again, won both the Mind and Age