Writers as Readers

• E-book | Engels | VMC | Virago Modern Classics
• The perfect anthology for book lovers Writers as Readers is a celebration of forty years of the Virago Modern Classics list. Started in 1978, Virago M... Lees meer

I Go by Sea, I Go by Land

P L Travers

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• 'James and I stayed on at home and everything was quiet and sunny and we got to thinking the war would never come after all . . . Just when we were so... Lees meer

Marling Hall

Angela Thirkell

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• 'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times Mr Marling, of Marling Hall... Lees meer

The Children

Edith Wharton

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• On a cruise ship between Algiers and Venice Martin Boyne, a bachelor in his forties, befriends a band of ebullient, precocious children. The seven Whe... Lees meer

Miss Bunting

Angela Thirkell

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• Barsetshire in the war years. Miss Bunting, governess of choice to generations of Barsetshire aristocracy, has been coaxed out of retirement by Sir Ro... Lees meer

Virago Modern Classics: Valley Of The Dolls

Jacqueline Susann

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• Before Jackie Collins, Candace Bushnell and Lena Dunham, Jacqueline Susann held the world rapt with her tales of the private passions of Hollywood sta... Lees meer

The Headmistress

Angela Thirkell

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls' school, evacua... Lees meer

Northbridge Rectory

Angela Thirkell

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• As the war continues it brings its own set of trials to the the village of Northbridge. Eight officers of the Barsetshire Regiment have been billeted ... Lees meer

The Soul of Kindness

Elizabeth Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• INTRODUCED BY PHILIP HENSHER 'Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassi... Lees meer

The Judge

Rebecca West

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• Ellen Melville is a beautiful suffragette who, at seventeen, wants passionately to experience all that life can give her. From her abandoned, impoveri... Lees meer

Tipping The Velvet

Sarah Waters

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• From the oyster huts of Whitstable to the music halls of Victorian London, Tipping the Velvet is the glorious first novel from this much-loved author Lees meer

Before Lunch

Angela Thirkell

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He may be pompous, and ... Lees meer

The Fox at the Manger

P L Travers

• Hardcover | Engels | VMC
• For the first time since the war, the Christmas peal is ringing at St Paul's Cathedral. There is joy. There is new hope. It is Christmas Eve, the caro... Lees meer

Girl, Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen

• Paperback | VMC
• * Now a major film starring Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave* A clear-sighted and unflinching memoir of an eighteen-year-old girl ab... Lees meer

The Harsh Voice

Rebecca West

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• In these four brilliant short novels set in America, England and Paris, Rebecca West explores the lives and relationships of rich women and men who ar... Lees meer

A Far Cry From Kensington

Muriel Spark

• Hardcover | Engels | VMC
• The narrator is one Mrs. Hawkins. She writes from Italy, a far cry from Kensington indeed, taking us back to her threadbare years in postwar London. A... Lees meer

A Game of Hide and Seek

Elizabeth Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• 'Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning-point in one's own experience' - Elizabeth Bowen, author of The Heat of ... Lees meer

Frenchman's Creek

Daphne Du Maurier

• Hardcover | Engels | VMC
• One of du Maurier's most popular novels, in a beautiful new hardback VMC set of Daphne du Maurier classics. The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St C... Lees meer

Girl, Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen

• E-book | Engels | Virago Modern Classics | VMC
• The bestselling book that inspired the cult classic film, Girl, Interrupted , starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. 'Not since Sylvia Plath's The ... Lees meer

The Tortoise and the Hare

Elizabeth Jenkins

• Hardcover | Engels | VMC
• This exquisite novel tells a love story with a difference. 'One of my favourite classics' CARMEN CALLIL, VIRAGO FOUNDER Lees meer

Virago Modern Classics: The Tortoise And The Hare

Elizabeth Jenkins

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• The re-dipping of dishes was a small matter, but the emotional texture of married life is made up of small matters. This one had become invested with ... Lees meer

Girl, Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• To mark the 30th anniversary of this impactful, bestselling memoir, Girl, Interrupted is now published as a Virago Modern Classic Lees meer

Virago Modern Classics: A Far Cry From Kensington

Muriel Spark

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• I can't help it. Sometimes the words just come out and I can't stop them. It feels like preaching the gospel. When publishing assistant and war widow ... Lees meer

The Haunting of Sylvia Plath

Jacqueline Rose

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• Since her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon. This book addresses why this is the case and what this tells us ab... Lees meer