Virago imprint: 156 books
Emily of New Moon
A Virago Modern Classic
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Emily Starr has never known what it is to be unloved. But when her father dies, she is left in the care of her mother's family. Emily is a stranger to the proud Murrays, none of whom think they can cope with such a heartbroken, headstrong girl. They decide to draw lots for her, and Emily is sent to...
You are Always With Me
Letters to Mama
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Frida Kahlo is regarded as one of Mexico's greatest painters: her extraordinary personal style, her tragic story, her relationship with Diego Rivera (the more famous painter in their day) alongside her passionate paintings have made her a cult figure since she died over sixty years ago.
But...
Bedsit Disco Queen
How I Grew Up and Tried to be a Pop Star
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and played gigs, and signed to an indie label, and started releasing records.
Then, for eighteen years, between 1982 and 2000, I was one half of the group Everything...
by Marguerite van Geldermalsen
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
'"Where you staying?" the Bedouin asked. "Why you not stay with me tonight - in my cave?"'
Thus begins Marguerite van Geldermalsen's story of how a New Zealand-born nurse came to be married to Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin souvenir-seller from the ancient city of Petra...
by Angela Thirkell
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He may be pompous, and they may seem ill-matched, but the couple are devoted to each other.
When Jack's widowed sister, Lilian, and her two stepchildren arrive to spend...
by Angela Thirkell
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Barsetshire in the war years. Miss Bunting, governess of choice to generations of Barsetshire aristocracy, has been coaxed out of retirement by Sir Robert and Lady Fielding to tutor their daughter Anne, delicate, sixteen years old, and totally lacking in confidence.
When Anne makes friends...
by Elizabeth von Arnim
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
A discreet advertisement in 'The Times', addressed to 'Those who Apppreciate Wisteria and Sunshine...' is the impetus for a revelatory month for four very different women. High above the bay on the Italian Riviera stands San Salvatore, a mediaeval castle. Beckoned to this haven are Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs...
The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister
The Inspiration for Gentleman Jack
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
ANNE LISTER IS THE INSPIRATION FOR GENTLEMAN JACK, A NEW BBC/HBO SERIES BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT, STARRING SURANNE JONES.
'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing: Anne Lister's diaries are an indispensable read for anyone interested in the history of gender, sexuality, and the intimate...
Radical Help
How we can remake the relationships between us and revolutionise the welfare state
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
How should we live: how should we care for one another; grow our capabilities to work, to learn, to love and fully realise our potential? This exciting and ambitious book shows how we can re-design the welfare state for this century.
The welfare state was revolutionary: it lifted thousands...
Edith Sitwell
Avant Garde Poet, English Genius
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
For the better part of forty years, Edith Sitwell's poetry has been neglected by critics. But born into a family of privileged eccentrics, Edith Sitwell was highly regarded by her contemporaries: the great writers and artists of the day who attended her unlikely London literary salon. Her quips and...
Four Meals for Fourpence
A Heartwarming Tale of Family Life in London's old East End
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
I was born in a tenement flat in the East End of London in the year in which Queen Victoria died.'
FOUR MEALS FOR FOURPENCE is Grace Foakes's memories of her girlhood in Wapping in the early 1900s. With a child's uncluttered eye, she describes the small details - shopping in the market, men...
Tea By The Nursery Fire
A Childrens Nanny at the Turn of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Emily Huckwell spent almost her entire life working for one family. Born in a tiny Sussex village in the 1870s, she went into domestic service in the Burton household before she was twelve, earning £5 a year. She began as a nursery maid, progressing to under nurse and then head nanny, looking after...
Climbing the Bookshelves
The Autobiography of Shirley Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
The role of women in our society has changed out of all recognition. But it has changed least in the House of Commons. I want to describe those changes and the resistances to them through the magnifying glass of my own life, a life that coincides with our turbulent post-war history.'
Shirley...
by Elizabeth von Arnim
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
I want to be alone for a whole summer, and get to the very dregs of life. I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow. Nobody shall be invited to stay with me, and if anyone calls they will be told that I am out, or away, or sick . . . Wouldn't a whole lovely summer, quite...