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NOW CLOSED Win forty Virago Press books!

*This competition is now closed. Any entries received will not be counted.*

To celebrate reaching forty thousand Virago loving followers on Twitter, we’re giving you the chance to win forty, yes forty Virago books. The prize will be a mixture of classics, some of our new and best-loved fiction, memoir, biography, and even an advanced copy of a book that’s not publishing until July.

To enter, simply sign up to the Virago newsletter below before 12am BST on Sunday 9th April 2017.




Full terms and conditions are available here. This competition is open to UK residents only.

The list of books that one winner will receive are:

The Kingdom and the Cave –  Joan Aiken
The Serial Garden – Joan Aiken
Mom & Me & Mom – Maya Angelou
And Still I Rise – Maya Angelou
Murder in the Dark – Margaret Atwood
Stone Mattress – Margaret Atwood
Living the Dream – Lauren Berry (exclusive advanced copy)
The Sadeian Woman – Angela Carter
Nothing Sacred – Angela Carter
Angela Carter’s Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
Saving Safa – Waris Dirie
London Lies Beneath – Stella Duffy
The Birds – Daphne du Maurier
The Doll – Daphne du Maurier
The King’s General – Daphne du Maurier
My Cousin Rachel – Daphne du Maurier
The Loving Spirit – Daphne du Maurier
Jamaica Inn (YA edition) – Daphne du Maurier
Frenchman’s Creek (YA edition) – Daphne du Maurier
In the Name of the Family – Sarah Dunant
Let me Tell You About a Man I Knew – Susan Fletcher
Talking as Fast as I Can – Lauren Graham
The Dark Circle – Linda Grant
Small G – Patricia Highsmith
A Game for the Living – Patricia Highsmith
Loving and Giving – Molly Keane
The Virago Book of Women Gardeners – edited by Deborah Kellaway
Half the Sky – Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn (chosen for Our Shared Shelf – the Emma Watson book club)
The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough
Anne of Green Gables – L. M. Montgomery
The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington – Joanna Moorhead
Laughing All the Way to the Mosque – Zarqa Nawaz
Less Than Angels – Barbara Pym
Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
The Giveness of Things – Marilynne Robinson
Love Like Salt – Helen Stevenson
Valley of the Dolls (50th anniversary edition) – Jacqueline Susann
The Headmistress– Angela Thirkell
Naked at the Albert Hall – Tracey Thorn
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters