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 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

Excellent Women

Barbara Pym

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• 'One of the most endearingly amusing English novels of the twentieth century' Alexander McCall Smith Lees meer

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• The 80th anniversary of Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece - perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African Ameri... Lees meer

The Dud Avocado

Elaine Dundy

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It's the 1950s, she's young, and she's in Paris. Having dyed her hair pink, she wears evening dresses in th... Lees meer

Harriet Hume

Rebecca West

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• Of all the women he had ever known she was the most ethereal. Loving her was like swathing oneself with a long scarf of spirit.' Harriet Hume, musical... Lees meer

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• Maya Angelou's phenomenal seven volume autobiography is now available on the Virago Modern Classics list. Lees meer

Summer Half: A Virago Modern Classic

Angela Thirkell

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• To his parents' dismay, Colin Keith - out of the noble but misplaced sense of duty peculiar to high-minded young university graduates - chooses to qui... Lees meer

A View Of The Harbour

Elizabeth Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | VMC
• In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high... Lees meer