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Posted by Donna Coonan in Book News, News, TV, Film & Radio News on 31. Aug, 2010 | No Comments
DUSTY ANSWER This Week's Radio 4 Drama
Dusty Answer, Rosamond Lehmann's  first novel, is currently Radio 4's Women's Hour Drama. To listen, click here.
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Posted by Lennie Goodings in Editorial on 26. Aug, 2010 | 1 Comment
From Our Own Backlist: Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
With all the (deserved) fuss over Emma Donoghue's new novel, Room, I thought readers would be interested to be reminded of an early book of hers that we published.Â
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Posted by Ursula Doyle in Book News on 19. Aug, 2010 | 1 Comment
Half the Sky: exposing the greatest moral outrage of our century
The front cover of the G2 section of the Guardian today is taken up by Half the Sky, with the line: ‘The world is in the grip of a moral outrage on a par with slavery and genocide. The victims? Women.’
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Posted by Donna Coonan in Editorial on 12. Aug, 2010 | 4 Comments
From Our Own Backlist:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
As the Publisher of  Virago, with knowledge of our past, I thought it would be interesting for me to trawl through the Virago list  and bring you regular News From Our Own Backlist .
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Posted by Emily Rowland in Editorial on 01. Jul, 2010 | No Comments
Welcome, Readers, to the new Virago News and Blog website
To mark the launch of the new, improved, Virago news and blog site, publisher Lennie Goodings (who was recently named Editor of the Year – and Virago Imprint of the Year – at the inaugural Bookseller Industry Awards) would like to say a few words of warm welcome to all
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Theatrical Premiere: Slave – A Question of Freedom
Posted by Elise Dillsworth in TV, Film & Radio News
Last week we posted about I Am Slave, the Channel 4 drama airing this Monday that is loosely based on Slave.
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Virago needs you!
Posted by Emily Rowland in News
Little, Brown’s publicity department is looking for a bright, outgoing, efficient publicity assistant to work for the literary division – incorporating Little, Brown, Abacus and of course Virago.
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23
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Bitter Leaf – exclusive reading by author
Posted by Elise Dillsworth in Book News
Bitter Leaf by Chioma Okereke was published in June. This is Chioma's first book and I was delighted to acquire it for Virago. What I love about Chioma's writing is her use of language and the richness of her imagination.
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18
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The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Posted by Victoria Pepe in Book News, Editorial, Previews
At this moment, I'm looking at the most beautiful proof you will ever see. Slotted inside are two postcards. One shows a couple in the snow, the other a group of friends, laughing, happy. On the front of the book are the letters H and E.
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17
Aug
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The Bolter – Film Rights Sold!
Posted by Donna Coonan in Book News, News, TV, Film & Radio News
It seems that everybody wants to want to make a film of a Virago book. Last week we told you about South Riding. Yesterday we told you about Slave. Today comes the news that film rights for The Bolter by Frances Osborne have been acquired by New Regency Productions.
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16
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I Am Slave, Channel 4 drama
Posted by Elise Dillsworth in Book News, News, TV, Film & Radio News
"Channel 4 returns to serious drama with I Am Slave, a harrowing exploration of human trafficking in London." Sunday Times The drama to be broadcast on August 30 is loosely based on Slave, first published by Virago in 2004.
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13
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Living Dolls and real girls
Posted by Ursula Doyle in Editorial
In February, Virago published Living Dolls, Natasha Walter’s account of the return of sexism, which included an evisceration of the ways in which little girls are sold an airbrushed and highly sexual version of femininity.
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9
Aug
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Sarah Waters on writing a ghost story
Posted by Lennie Goodings in Author News, Book News
Sarah Waters wrote a piece in The Guardian on Saturday discussing the reaction to her latest novel. She had this to say on the response to The Little Stranger:
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New BBC Drama: South Riding by Winifred Holtby
Posted by Donna Coonan in Book News, News, TV, Film & Radio News
Award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies (Brideshead Revisited, Affinity, Tipping the Velvet) is adapting Winifred Holtby's classic novel South Riding for the BBC. It stars David Morrissey and Anna Maxwell Martin, and is due to be screened later this year.
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Video of Michele Roberts at the Port Eliot Festival
Posted by Donna Coonan in Author News, Book News, Events and Appearances, News
Did you go to the Port Eliot Festival this year? No? Sadly, me neither. Here's your chance to virtually be there (without the hassle of the train journey, the cost of the ticket, or the joys [?] of camping), and hear Michele Roberts speaking about her acclaimed short-story collection, Mud.Â
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