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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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Alexander McCall Smith on Angela Thirkell
Posted by Victoria Pepe in Book Excerpts, Book News
Alexander McCall Smith, bestselling author of The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series, explains his love for Angela Thirkell in this exclusive excerpt from his introduction to High Rising and Wild Strawberries, the latest books to be republished on the Virago Modern Classics list. Angela Thirkell is today relatively unknown, by no
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Tipping the Velvet: Music Hall Mashers
Posted by Carleen Peters in Book News, Virago Book Club
At the heart of this month’s Virago book club pick is the magic and power of the musical hall male impersonator. In Tipping the Velvet cross-dressing enables our protagonists to explore their own independence, adventure, status and sexuality in Victorian London. We were inspired to find out more about the
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WINNER OF WRITING COMPETITION ANNOUNCED
Posted by Victoria Pepe in Book News, Competitions
In March next year we will be publishing Fifty Shades of Feminism, edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes and Susie Orbach, and last month we gave you the opportunity to have your writing published in the book alongside some of our most influential and important feminist names. We received an
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22
Nov
‘As comforting as coming in to a roaring log fire from the cold night outside’
Posted by Stephen Dumughn in Book News, Guest Posts, Previews
Today we publish two classic novels by Angela Thirkell – High Rising and Wild Strawberries – as Virago Modern Classics. Here Virago editor Rowan Cope explains what makes them so special and why they make perfect Christmas reading: I must confess to a weakness: I am simply incapable of
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Nov
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Lyndall Gordon on reissuing biographies of T.S. Eliot and Henry James
Posted by Victoria Pepe in Guest Posts
Lyndall Gordon talks to us about her new biographies of T.S Eliot and Henry James, which published this month.
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WIN a beautiful copy of Tipping the Velvet and DVD
Posted by Hollie Cruickshank in Book News, Competitions, Virago Book Club
To celebrate Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters as our Virago Book Club choice, we are giving three lucky winners the chance to win both a gorgeous copy of the Virago Modern Classic hardback edition as well as the DVD of the BBC adaptation.
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13
Nov
What the Virago team is reading this month
Posted by Hollie Cruickshank in Blog, Book News, Recommended Reading
Following on from last month's introduction to what we're reading comes another delightful and rather varied selection of what the Virago team have been reading this month…
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Tipping the Velvet: the latest Virago Book Club choice
Posted by Victoria Pepe in Competitions, Virago Book Club
We are very pleased to be discussing Tipping the Velvet, our latest Virago Book Club choice. A book that has delighted and shocked in equal measure since its publication in 1998, Tipping the Velvet launched Sarah Waters’ writing career and marked the discovery of a very serious talent. We recently
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Nov
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A look inside These Wonderful Rumours! Extract Five
Posted by Carleen Peters in Book Excerpts, Book News, Recommended Reading
We are sad to say that today will be our last look inside These Wonderful Rumours! We hope you have enjoyed this week of sneak peeks as much as we have. Stay tuned to @MaySmithsDiary on Twitter for updates in the coming weeks.
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Nov
Monthly Highlights: October 2012
Posted by Naomi Doerge in Book Excerpts, Book News, Recommended Reading
October had a decidedly international flair here at Virago, with fascinating and hugely inspirational tales from places as diverse as Pakistan, China and Kabul appearing in both our Fiction and Non-Fiction offerings.
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