Virago

Product Description 'Fascinating and illuminating' STYLIST'Perceptive and candid' IRISH TIMES'Wide-ranging, deep-dive, soul-baring interviews, fu...

Product Description She let herself out of the large, untidy house and into her own beautiful, hyacinth-scented one. She sat down in the bay-wind...

Review A riveting investigation into how society looks after its greatest and most valuable vulnerable asset: the child. Behind Closed Doors is a ...

A powerful, influential novel, praised by writers including Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Maya Angelou. Long out of print, this lost classic is ...

INTRODUCED BY LOUIS DE BERNIERES 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' PHILIP ...

Now filmed as Obsession on Netflix - starring Richard Armitage and Charlie Murphy The New York Times bestselling masterpiece - a daring look at th...

Product Description Set in the late 1950s, this is the story of Evelyn Hall, an English Professor, who goes to Reno to obtain a divorce and pu...

Review Lyndall Gordon manages to avoid being undaughterly about her exciting, difficult, self-obsessed mother . . . as racy as a novel ― Guardian ...

Review Easy Beauty is bold, honest, and superbly well-written. Chloé Cooper Jones is ruthless in probing our weakest and darkest areas, and does s...

Product Description Do you beat yourself up after making a mistake? Do you treat yourself worse than you would a good friend? If these questions ...

'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat' SARAH WAT...

Product Description 'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL, author of Cloud AtlasThe vividly told, gloriously illustrated memo...

Review Luminous; a profound portrait of the artist as a young-and mature-woman; an unflinching social history of disability over the last six ...

Product Description 'A leading new voice on racial justice' LAYLA SAAD, author of ME AND WHITE SUPREMACYA REESE'S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK...

Review Sarah Dunant's sparkling novel, In the Name of the Family, is girded by a keen political intelligence and a stunning feel for Italy in the ...

Product Description '[Her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama'Marilynne Robinson is one of the greatest ...

INTRODUCED BY JILLY COOPER 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbrea...

About the Author Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. An author of four novels (Jonah's Gourd Vine, 1934; Their ...

Review Black, bitter and beautiful, she speaks of our survival ― JAMES BALDWIN Maya Angelou writes from the heart and her language rings clear an...

Review An endearing first novel ― ELLE Beautifully written in precise, poetic prose that successfully evokes the love of like for like ― OBSERVER...

Review A fascinating exploration about the power of prophecy, of labels, and of one woman's determination to defy them all. Blair is a rebel, an a...

Review Extraordinary . . . a jaw-dropper of a memoir -- Viv Groskop ― RedA brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman -- P...

In her bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen, Tracey Thorn recalled the highs and lows of a thirty-year career in pop music. But with the to...

Product Description Palmares hails the return of a major voice in literature - 'the best American novelist whose name you may not know' (Atla...