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Posted by Donna Coonan in Editorial on 05. Jun, 2013
A Hundred Years of Barbara Pym!
This week marks the centenary of Barbara Pym’s birth. Her many fans include Alexander McCall Smith, Jilly Cooper, Shirley Hazzard, Philip Larkin and Anne Tyler. Here, Hazel Holt remembers and celebrates her friend Barbara Pym, a treasure on the VMC list. When I joined the International African Institute in 1950
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Posted by Donna Coonan in Author News, Blog, Book News, Guest Posts on 25. Mar, 2013
Memories of Rumer Godden, from Hachette UK CEO Tim Hely-Hutchinson
Hachette UK CEO Tim Hely-Hutchinson shares his memories of working with Rumer Godden. In April, the Virago Modern Classics will launch a list for younger readers with two of Rumer Godden's novels for children: Thursday's Children and Listen to the Nightingale.
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Posted by Donna Coonan in Book Excerpts, Book News, News on 04. Mar, 2013
In her Nineties, Ursula Holden Becomes a Virago Modern Classic
Tin Toys, an incredible novel by Ursula Holden, is a new addition to the Virago Modern Classics list. It has been gathering brilliant reviews, so we thought we’d share the introduction by Lisa Allardice, who went to meet Holden to discuss the novel with her. Also, last week she featured
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Gillian Slovo's play 'The Riots' opens at the Tricycle to rave reviews
Posted by Victoria Pepe in Author News, TV, Film & Radio News
Gillian Slovo, author of Ice Road and Every Secret Thing, saw her new play 'The Riots' receive wonderful reviews after its first performance this week. The play is about the riots that rocked London in August, and is based on interviews with politicians, police victims and the rioters themselves.
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Our Favourite Stories from Perfect Lives
Posted by Hollie Cruickshank in Book News, Virago Book Club
In preparation for the Virago Book Club Live Event with Polly Samson next week, the Virago team wrote about their favourite Perfect Lives short story and what it meant to them, posting on our Virago Book Club forum.
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Virago Book Club Live Event with Polly Samson
Posted by Hollie Cruickshank in Book News, Virago Book Club
We can now confirm the details of the Perfect Lives 'Live Event' with Polly Samson.
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Perfect Lives by Polly Samson to be Book at Bedtime
Posted by Victoria Pepe in Book News
We are delighted to announce that Polly Samson's Perfect Lives has been picked as the BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime. It begins this Monday, 21 November at 10.45pm and will be on at the same time every night next week. Here's what Polly had to say when she found
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Nov
Perfect Lives – The Next Virago Book Club Selection
Posted by Hollie Cruickshank in Book News, Virago Book Club
We're delighted to announce that our next selection for the Virago Book Club is Polly Samson's collection of interlinked short stories, Perfect Lives.
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November Inspiration: Anna May Mangan on Miles Franklin
Posted by Donna Coonan in Recommended Reading
For November's recommendation, Anna May Mangan has chosen My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin. If you haven't yet discovered this wonderful novel, November is the perfect time to get swept away to Australia from the comfort of your own armchair.
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REBECCA has been chosen for World Book Night
Posted by Donna Coonan in Book News
At the World Book Night launch last night, it was announced that Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier is to be one of twenty-five books to be included in World Book Night 2012. Here's the full list of titles. The aim of World Book Night is to share a love of books and of reading.
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Mary Wollstonecraft – A Woman to Remember!
Posted by Donna Coonan in Author News, News
Newington Green Action Group's 'Mary on the Green' project has been selected for NatWest's Community Force grant scheme which has a first prize of £6,000. The awards are granted on which project gets the most public votes.
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Guest Post from Lauren Liebenberg, author of The West Rand Jive Cats Boxing Club
Posted by Victoria Pepe in Book News, Guest Posts
Virago published Lauren Liebenberg's wonderful debut novel The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam in 2008 to great success – it was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers. And this year we were delighted to publish Lauren's second novel The West Rand Jive Cats Boxing Club. Here Lauren tells us
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NIGHTINGALE WOOD by Stella Gibbons on Radio 4
Posted by Donna Coonan in Book News
A dramatisation of Stella Gibbons' sparkling 1930s comedy Nightingale Wood is on Radio 4 this week. The first episode aired yesterday, and the second episode will run on Saturday. If you didn't catch it, you can listen again here. It's everything you might expect from the author of Cold Comfort Farm.
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