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  Read an extract from What Are You Going Through, an unexpectedly life-affirming novel about choosing to die by National Book Award winner and bestselling author of The Friend, Sigrid Nunez.    It’s down to two […]

  What does it take to be open to change? In this episode of OurShelves Lucy Scholes interviews Deborah Frances-White, stand-up comedian, creator of the hit podcast and book of the same name, The Guilty […]

In Chia-Chia Lin’s piercing debut novel, The Unpassing, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed […]

I’m often asked about the southcentral Alaskan landscape in The Unpassing – the spruce forests, the sparse coasts, the long summer days, the beached whale. The outdoor setting offers solace to the characters, but it […]

In anticipation of the release of Jack we’re revisiting each novel in the Gilead quartet. Here is an extract from Women’s Prize winning novel, Home. Jack Boughton – prodigal son – has been gone twenty […]

    Virago Modern Classics Book Club JULY 2020 SOUTH RIDING by Winifred Holtby This August, in honour of Yorkshire Day our Book of the Month is South Riding by Winifred Holtby. South Riding is […]

Celebrate Yorkshire Day with this Yorkshire-themed reading list, featuring brilliant authors or fabulous yarns from God’s Own County! Whether you’re from there, have visited or have only travelled via the pages of a good book, […]

  How much courage does it take to write? In this episode of OurShelves Lucy Scholes interviews Lennie Goodings, Chair of Virago Press and author of A Bite of the Apple. We dive into stories […]

To celebrate the publication of The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes we are offering TWENTY PEOPLE the chance to win an illustrated profile picture, drawn by Eleanor herself! To enter simply […]

Marilynne Robinson is widely considered to be one of America’s greatest writers and thinkers, counting among her accolodes the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Pen award. Her novels […]

With restrictions beginning to ease author Linda Grant shares what she has discovered about herself, her neighbours and her city during lockdown. The flat is on a road which dissects east-west the brow of a […]

    Virago Modern Classics Book Club JULY 2020 THE WEDDING by Dorothy West This July our Book of the Month is The Wedding by Dorothy West. Long out of print, this incredible novel by […]