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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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Early Praise for Susie Boyt’s The Small Hours
Posted by Carleen Peters in Book News, Recommended Reading
This November we publish The Small Hours, the new novel from critically acclaimed author, Susie Boyt.
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7
Sep
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The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier on ITV
Posted by Hollie Cruickshank in Blog, News, TV, Film & Radio News
If you missed the gorgeous feature-length adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s classic novel The Scapegoat on ITV1 on Sunday 9th September, be sure to catch up on ITV player. Written and directed by Charles Sturridge, it stars Matthew Rhys, Dame Eileen Atkins, Sheridan Smith, Johdi May and Phoebe Nicholls.
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7
Sep
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Deborah Copaken Kogan on what inspired her novel, The Red Book
Posted by Stephen Dumughn in Author News, Blog, Book News, Guest Posts, News
Deborah Copaken Kogan describes writing her entry for the real Harvard red book, twenty-five years after graduating – an experience that inspired her gloriously entertaining, wickedly funny and painfully observant novel, The Red Book, published this week.
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6
Sep
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Read an extract from Vagina: A New Biography
Posted by Stephen Dumughn in Book Excerpts, Book News, News
Naomi Wolf's new book, Vagina: A New Biography, is published today. Here, you can read a short extract from the opening chapter:
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Sep
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Naomi Wolf has arrived in the UK
Posted by Felice Howden in Book News, Recommended Reading
Naomi Wolf has arrived in the UK and the controversy and excitement over her book, 'VAGINA: A New Biography' has begun. Jemima Lewis, The Mail on Sunday: `Naomi Wolf has tried hard to look at female sexuality as it really is, not as pop culture or political correctness would like
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Monthly Highlights: August 2012
Posted by Carleen Peters in Book Excerpts, Book News, Recommended Reading
Welcome to our inaugural Monthly Highlights post.
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29
Aug
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From Naomi Wolf, an astonishing, explosive new book that will change how you think about female sexuality
Posted by Stephen Dumughn in Book News, Events and Appearances, News, Previews
The book that radically changes how we think about, talk about and understand the vagina – and consequently, how we understand women and sexuality – from the author of The Beauty Myth. As controversial, exciting and inspiring as Naomi Wolf herself. The media coverage will be worldwide. Naomi Wolf is
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Aug
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Announcing Sandi Toksvig's tour for her new novel Valentine Grey
Posted by Stephen Dumughn in Author News, Book News, Events and Appearances, News, Previews
Valentine Grey by Sandi Toksvig, published September 6th in Hardback and Ebook Familiar from TV, radio, stage and theatre, Sandi Toksvig has now written a wonderfully inventive novel about a young woman – Valentine Grey – who dons her cousin’s uniform and goes to fight in the Boer War.
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23
Aug
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Celebrated author Nina Bawden dies aged 87
Posted by Victoria Pepe in Author News, Book News
The writer Nina Bawden died peacefully this morning, August 22 2012, at home in North London with her family. She was 87 years old.
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21
Aug
A sneak preview of The Red Book
Posted by Stephen Dumughn in Book Excerpts, Book News, Previews, Recommended Reading
The Red Book is the name of the annual yearbook produced by Harvard University that helps keep alumni abreast of their former classmates achievements. Deborah Kogan's highly acclaimed new novel is the story of four such Harvard students and friends, who's lives have taken very different paths in the twenty years since graduating in 1989,
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