Virago

Product Description ***A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK***   ***A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK***   A woman wondering who she re...

Product Description Set in London and Monmouth in the late 1700s, this is an extraordinary novel about Mary Saunders, the young daughter of a poo...

About the Author Attia Hosain (1913-1998) was born in Lucknow and educated at La Martiniere and Isabella Thoburn College, blending an English ...

Product Description 'An absolute belter of a page-turner' HEAT'A fantastic book club choice' PRIMAWould you have a baby for your daughter?Ruth ha...

Product Description 'People came in and out, chairs were moved, dishes gathered up on trays, but it was happening at a great distance; she concen...

Product Description Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a young painter back with him from Holland to ador...

Review Captures a filial love as fierce and frank as its central figure ― New YorkerA sparkling debut. Any sadness in the telling is countered...

Review A captivating mixture of memoir, stories from the consulting room, history and science, The Brink of Being is a much-needed, comprehensive ...

Product Description Collected Stories includes both volumes of National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard's short story collections - Cli...

Review Shirley Hazzard is an author for whom there just aren't praises high enough. Wise, elegant, generous, moving - to finish reading a book...

Review A champagne cocktail ... Rich, invigorating, and deceptively simple to the taste ... One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from...

Product Description Infertility medicine today is all about aggressive surgical, chemical and technological intervention. But making babies origi...

Review Shirley Hazzard. For me, the greatest living writer on goodness and love . . . THE GREAT FIRE so overwhelmed me that I came close to being ...

Product Description BY THE AUTHOR OF BALLET SHOESwith beautiful illustrations by Edward Ardizzone'A joyous, sunlight book. For me, the best Noel ...

Review An American writer with a powerful sense of vital inheritance, of history -- John UpdikeAn important American writer . . . The Healing ...

Product Description 'R. O. Kwon is the real deal' LAUREN GROFF'Absolutely electric . . . Everyone should read this book' GARTH GREENWELL'Every ex...

Combining the scholarship of a historian with the imagination of a novelist, Mary Renault masterfully brings the ancient world to life in this page...

Original and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating power - Philippe SandsThe hidden true story of Jewish women who inspired Poland's ...

Review Her work endures not merely because of the strength of its message but its artistry . . . Petry will always feel on time. Her kind of talen...

Review An extremely beautiful and funny novel . . . The Orchard on Fire is probably Mackay's most perfect book, produced with a technical adro...

Product Description 'Renault's masterpiece. One of the greatest historical novels ever written' SARAH WATERSIn the second novel of her stunning t...

Review Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or t...

Review A small masterpiece, a near perfect account of how childhood has to come to an end and the serpent must enter the garden . . . In The R...

Product Description 'An inspiration to anyone who still finds old age too distressing a prospect to take seriously' The TimesOld age is no lo...