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Extract The Street by Ann Petry A gripping novel from 1946, The Street is prescient and powerful and as relevant today as it was when first published.     I   There was a cold November wind […]

Florence King Florence King was born in Washington, DC, which she calls ‘a geographical accident for which Granny never forgave any of us, for I was supposed to be an Upton of Virginia just like […]

Where: Pages Cheshire St Bookshop, Shoreditch   When: 7-9pm Wednesday 29th January 2020   How much: £5 including a drink   Who: BBC reporter and author of Red River Girl, Joanna Jolly and journalist, crime writer, and […]

    Virago Modern Classics Book Club January 2020 Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King We are kicking off the Virago Book Club for 2020 with a touch of humour in the […]

  With the new decade nearly upon us we are looking forward to some of the titles we will be publishing in 2020.   In the first six months of the year we have an […]

Shop for the fierce viragos in your life this Christmas with our handy Christmas shopping list! If you’re scratching your head about what to get for your youngest sister, or you can’t decide what to […]

    Virago Modern Classics Book Club December 2019 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott This December, our Book of the Month is Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. We decided it was high time […]

  Red River Girl   In 2016, the head of the homicide police unit in Winnipeg, Canada, assured me of one thing – I was working on an open and shut case.   Two years […]

  New gender pay gap data finds that women continue to earn less than men, on average, in Britain today. The most recent statistics from the ONS’ Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings – published […]

  Read an extract from Sandi Toksvig’s memoir, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus. Preface When I was about seven my father gave me my […]

    Virago Modern Classics Book Club November 2019 Wave Me Goodbye Edited by Anna Boston This November, our Book of the Month is Wave Me Goodbye edited by Anna Boston. Published to mark the […]

  How Much of These Hills is Gold is an epic debut novel about family and the search for both a home and a fortune. Set during the Gold Rush in a re-imagined American West, […]