On 1st June, we publish Rachel Seiffert’s hotly anticipated new novel. A Boy in Winter. Rachel is perhaps best known for her novel The Dark Room, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2001 and inspired the film Lore in 2012. A Boy in Winter begins early on a grey November morning in…
On 14th April The Handmaiden, a sumptuous and exhilarating period thriller inspired by Sarah Waters’ best-selling novel Fingersmith, will be released in cinemas around the UK. To celebrate this release, Virago is offering one lucky reader the chance to win a pair of tickets to see the film, plus a film poster, t-shirt, badges and…
To celebrate publication of In the Name of the Family by Sarah Dunant, we’ve teamed up with Ponti’s Italian Kitchen to offer one Virago reader the chance to win dinner at their restaurant in London or Sheffield. The prize includes dinner for the reader and a guest, a bottle of Ponti’s homemade limoncello and a signed hardback…
This Mother’s Day (UK: Sunday 26th March 2017), we’re giving you the chance to win a mug and notebook set of your choosing from the Virago Modern Classic Gift range and a £25 voucher from The Literary Gift Company. To enter, simply share a photo of your favourite Virago book and brew on Twitter or…
We are thrilled to be publishing In the Name of the Family in March 2017, the brand new novel from Sarah Dunant – the novelist of the Italian Renaissance. In the Name of the Family – as Blood and Beauty did before – holds up a mirror to a turbulent moment of history, sweeping aside the myths to bring…
Atwood fans, assemble! This year, Margaret Atwood has been awarded the highly prestigious PEN Pinter Prize – awarded annually to to a writer who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel Literature Prize speech, casts an ‘unflinching, unswerving gaze upon the world’ and shows a ‘fierce intellectual determination…to define the real truth of our lives and…
We are delighted to announce that Virago author, Marilynne Robinson, has been shortlisted for the 2016 International DUBLIN Literary Award, with Lila – published in paperback in 2015. The International DUBLIN Literary Award is presented annually for a novel written in English or translated into English. The award aims to promote excellence in world…
Stone Mattress – nine wicked tales from the queen of invention, Margaret Atwood – is out now in paperback! To celebrate the mischief and imagination of the book, we’re launching a blog tour with a twist – and nine separate opportunities to win a copy signed by Margaret Atwood herself. There are nine stops on…
On 24th September 2015 we are thrilled to publish the paperback of Stone Mattress – the latest brilliant collection of ‘acerbic, mischievous, gulpable short stories’ (Harper’s Bazaar) from the ‘gleefully inventive’ (Sunday Times) Margaret Atwood. To celebrate this, and our iconic paperback cover, we would love you to get involved and enter for…
A prize for the intrepid reader who can provide us with old period photos of some of the spots in Sarah Waters’ The Paying Guests! Sarah Waters is passionate about London and that passion shows in her novels, where London figures as strongly as her characters. The Paying Guests is set in 1922 in south…
