Sarah Waters

We are delighted to share the news that author Sarah Waters was made an OBE for services to literature in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.   On the honour Sarah said: ‘Writing is, by its nature, a very solitary pursuit: you spend most of your time as an author hidden away. So to receive this kind of […]

Over the weekend Sarah Waters was made an OBE for services to literature in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. On the honour Sarah said: ‘Writing is, by its nature, a very solitary pursuit: you spend most of your time as an author hidden away. So to receive this kind of very public honour is a huge […]

  THE LITTLE STRANGER FILM ADAPTATION We are delighted to announce the release of a film adaptation of Sarah Waters’ chilling thriller: The Little Stranger. The film will be released in the UK this autumn, plenty of time to re-read the book! Plus, we will be releasing a film tie-in edition of the book: watch this […]

‘What fun it was to write! That’s what I remember most about it: the fun, the fizz, the exhilaration of putting it together, page by page. I owe Tipping the Velvet a great deal… It made an author of me, leaving me with a hunger to write again, and write better’  – Sarah Waters We […]

We are so delighted and proud to share the news that Virago will be the subject of an hour-long documentary which airs on BBC Four on Monday 31 October, 10 – 11pm. Read the BBC’s announcement here and below – and don’t forget to tune in on Monday 31!   Virago: Changing the World One […]

W. W. Jacobs, ‘The Monkey’s Paw’ This is one of the most anthologised of all ghost stories, and its ‘be careful what you wish for’ message has become one of the clichés of the genre. (I’ve seen it brilliantly pastiched on The League of Gentlemen and The Simpsons.) But it made a huge impression on […]