books by Virago Press (UK)

books by Virago Press (UK)

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Virago Press (UK)

The Bolter: Idina Sackville, the Woman Who Scandalised 1920's Society and Became White Mischief's Infamous ...

Frances Osborne

Virago Press (UK), 2008

Oh, Great Grandma, and what sharp teeth you have...
Everything about this book is intrguing, from its topic and story to the relationship of the author to the woman that the book is about. In The Bolter, author Frances Osborne tells the story of her great-grandmother, Lady Idina Sackville, a women who married ...

The Clothes on Their Backs

Linda Grant

Virago Press (UK), 2008

Good or evil?
Just long-listed for a Booker! This book by Orange-Prize winner Linda Grant takes on several very complex questions. I think it gets ahead of all of them while building suspense about the characters. One big question dominates: what is a good person and what is an ...

The Centre Cannot Hold: A Memoir of My Schizophrenia

Elyn R. Saks

Virago Press (UK), 2007

Coming out of the Closet
Ms Saks has written a very important book that demonstrates that people with schizophrenia can achieve a great deal in life with proper treatment and support. The problem is that she and others like her are in a minority. In her address to the American Psychological ...

The Orlando Trilogy (Virago modern classics)
Colegate, Isabel Colegate

Virago Press (UK), 1996

This trilogy tells the story of Orlando King, his rise to ambiguous power during the moral confusion of the 1930s, his spectacular downfall and the troubled legacy he bequeathed to his divided family. As the 1950s draw to a close, his daughter Agatha accomplishes a painful resolution.

The Song of the Lark (Virago Modern Classics)

Willa Cather

Virago Press (UK), 1993

A novel about artistic development
The Song of the Lark is Willa Cather's somewhat autobiographical novel about artistic growth. It follows the life of a fictional opera singer, Thea Kronborg, as she develops her musical and interpretive gifts. Thea is not an entirely lovable character, but I ...

Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam
Lauren Liebenberg

Virago Press (UK), 2008

Rhodesia - a place of great beauty, but also of terrible, man-made, tragedy. The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam is, above all else, a magical evocation of childhood; at times laugh-out-loud funny, at others heartbreakingly sad. It tells the story of two young sisters, Nyree and Cia O'Callohan, who live on a remote farm in the East ...

Carnevale

M. R. Lovric, Michelle Lovric

Virago Press (UK), 2001

Obsessions Behind the Masks of Carnevale
"La colpa l'e na bela putela, ma nissun la vol. Guilt is a gorgeous girl but nobody wants her." VENITIAN PROVERB, Carnevale History has been brought to life in an unforgettable portrayal of passion, truth and the undeniable heartaches of life. M.R. Lovric's, ...

Apology for the Woman Writing
Jenny Diski

Virago Press (UK), 2008

Marie de Gournay was eighteen when she read, and was overwhelmed by, the essays of the French philosopher Montaigne. She had to be revived with hellebore. When she finally met Montaigne, she stabbed herself with a hairpin until the blood ran in order to show her devotion. He made her his adopted daughter for the two months they knew each other. He ...

Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995
Margaret Atwood

Virago Press (UK), 1998

The evolution of Margaret Atwood's poetry illuminates one of our major literary talents. Here, as in her novels, is intensity combined with sardonic detachment, and in these early poems her genius for a level stare at the ordinary is wonderfully apparent. Just as startling is her ability to contrast the everyday with the terrifying: 'Each time I ...

Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales

Virago Press (UK), 2005

Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world- from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have ...

In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography
Nina Bawden

Virago Press (UK), 1997

Nina Bawden's career spans 20 adult novels and 17 for children. She turns now to her own story and in simple vignettes takes the reader through her life, revealing the inspirations of many of her books. It describes her childhood evacuation to Suffolk and Wales, and her years at Oxford, where she met Richard Burton and Margaret Thatcher. And, she ...

Haunting of Sylvia Path (Virago classic non-fiction)

Miller, Jacqueline Rose

Virago Press (UK), 1996

Very Interesting Study of Plath
I bought a used version of this book because I wasn't sure if I would like it or not. I was pleasantly surprised and impressed. I have not read tons of Plath criticism, but I felt this was the first I have read to really articulate what makes her poetry so compelling ...

Behavior of Moths
Poppy Adams

Virago Press (UK), 2008

From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her adored younger sister to return to the crumbling mansion that was once their idyllic childhood home. Vivien has not stepped foot in the house since she left, forty seven years ago; Ginny, the reclusive lepidopterist, has rarely ventured outside it. The remembrance of their youth, ...

Selected Stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner

Virago Press Limited, UK, 1990

The Bread and Butter Stories
Mary Norton

Virago Press (UK), 1998

This volume contains 15 short stories by the author of "The Borrowers" - period pieces about being an upper-middle-class woman in the 1940s and early 1950s. Many feature respectable conventional women in dull marriages, seeking to break the stifling constraints on their lives.