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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 Hollie Cruickshank in Author News, Book News, Events and Appearances, Interviews on 07. Mar, 2013
Tracey Thorn is guest at Virago's first Live Event with Foyles
Our series of Virago Live Events at Foyles kicked off last week with none other than the wonderful Tracey Thorn, author of Bedsit Disco Queen. Tracey’s memoir spans a thirty-year pop career and she treated a capacity audience to a fantastic trip down memory lane in conversation with her friend
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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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A look inside These Wonderful Rumours! Extract Three.
Posted by Carleen Peters in Book Excerpts, Book News, Recommended Reading
To celebrate publication of These Wonderful Rumours! The recently discovered wartime diaries of May Smith, a young teacher who lived in Derby during the Second World War, we are giving Virago readers an exclusive look inside the book with a series of extracts from May's diaries from the years 1939-1945.
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Nov
A look inside These Wonderful Rumours! Extract Two.
Posted by Carleen Peters in Book Excerpts, Book News, Recommended Reading
To celebrate publication of These Wonderful Rumours! the frank, funny and truly revelatory wartime diaries of May Smith, who lived in Derby during the Second World War, we are giving Virago readers an exclusive look inside the book with a series of extracts from May's diaries from the years 1939-1945.
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Nov
A look inside These Wonderful Rumours! Out Now.
Posted by Carleen Peters in Book Excerpts, Book News, Recommended Reading
Today we are also extremely pleased to publish These Wonderful Rumours! the newly discovered, beautifully preserved and truly revelatory wartime diaries of May Smith, a young school teacher who lived in Derby during the Second World War. To celebrate publication we are giving Virago readers an exclusive look inside the book with a series
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Nov
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Guest Post: Susie Boyt on her exquisite new novel, The Small Hours
Posted by Carleen Peters in Blog, Guest Posts, Recommended Reading
Today we publish The Small Hours, the exquisite new novel from Susie Boyt, author of My Judy Garland Life.
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Oct
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An Exclusive Look at the Handwritten Diaries and Artefacts Behind These Wonderful Rumours!
Posted by Carleen Peters in Book News, Recommended Reading
Those of you who follow us on Facebook and Twitter will already know how very excited we are to be publishing These Wonderful Rumours!, the newly discovered wartime diaries of a young school teacher, which will be available to buy next week.
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Fifty Shades of Feminism needs you!
Posted by Stephen Dumughn in Book News
In March next year we will be publishing Fifty Shades of Feminism, an anthology edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes and Susie Orbach, that will bring together fifty women, from politicians to actors to scientists. Here is the antidote to the idea that being a woman is all about submitting to
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Oct
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Blasphemy: The true, heartbreaking story of the woman sentenced to death over a cup of water
Posted by Carleen Peters in Book News, Recommended Reading
Picture the scene: Punjab, Pakistan, June 2009. The temperature is 45° and you have been out picking fruit for several hours. It's exhausting, sweaty work, but you have five children to feed. At midday you go to the nearest well, pick up a cup and take a long drink
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Oct
What we're reading this month
Posted by Hollie Cruickshank in Book News, Recommended Reading
Here at Virago we like to discuss what books we're reading and are always amazed and delighted at the variety of themes and stories shared. Therefore we thought it would be great to share our discoveries with you every month.
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5
Oct
Monthly Highlights: September 2012
Posted by Carleen Peters in Book News, Recommended Reading
With the scent of autumn in the air and school children trudging back to school, September was the perfect month for Jane Robinson’s crackling and feisty book about the Women’s Institute, A Force to be Reckoned With, now released in paperback.
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Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters, our next Virago Book Club choice
Posted by Hollie Cruickshank in Blog, Book News, Virago Book Club
‘Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl – I knew it at once! – that I had ever seen.’
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"The Vet's Daughter, Sisters by a River and Our Spoons Came f..."
- Donna Coonan
"All of her books will be published next year or just "The Vet's Daughter"?"
- Ida S
"Really enjoying Tracey Thorn's new book. However, wasn't it Clive Pigg and the Ho..."
- J Underwood
"Delighted that you are re-publishing some of the lesser known Rumer Godden titles...."
- Nicola
"Thanks for reminding readers about the delightful charms of Angela Thirkell!"
- Carla Sarett
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