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Virago3376 ₽
The Robber Bride | Zenia is beautiful, smart and greedy, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless; a man's dream and a woman''s nightmare. She is also dead. Just to make sure Tony, Roz...
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Virago5738 ₽
Sankofa | Anna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter is all grown up, and her mother - the only parent who raised...
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Virago3376 ₽
Our Spoons Came From Woolworths | Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is...
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Virago3376 ₽
The Professor's House | A rich and suggestive work which contrasts the middle-aged disillusion of Professor St Peter with his memories of his favourite student, the brilliant explorer and inventor Tom...
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Virago3376 ₽
Nightingale Wood | Life is not quite a fairytale for poor Viola. Left penniless, the young widow is forced to live with her late husband s family in a joyless old house. There s Mr Wither, a tyrannica...
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Virago7250 ₽
What A Mother's Love Don't Teach You | At eighteen years old, Dinah gave away her baby son to the rich couple she worked for before they left Jamaica. They never returned. She never forgot him. Eighte...
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Virago3431 ₽
The Turnout | The mesmerising new thriller, set in the hothouse world of a ballet school, from the bestselling and award-winning writer Megan Abbott. Dara and Marie were trained as ballet dancers by t...
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Virago3431 ₽
A Dog's Ransom | 'Dear Sir, I suppose you are pretty pleased with yourself? Superior to everyone, you think. A fancy apartment and a snob dog. You are a disgusting little machine, nothing else. Your d...
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Virago3036 ₽
The Wedding | Set on a bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, THE WEDDING tells the story of life in the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's black b...
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Virago5363 ₽
A Wild & True Relation | A Wild & True Relation opens during the Great Storm of 1703, as smuggler Tom West confronts his lover Grace for betraying him to the Revenue. Leaving Grace's cottage in flames...
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Virago5724 ₽
The Tortoise And The Hare | In affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair. Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife of distinguished barrister Evelyn Gresham, is ...
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Virago2523 ₽
Carrie's War | One of the most loved and enduring wartime novels, Carrie's War is a modern classic. Published for the first time as a Virago Modern Classic, with a new foreword by Michael Morpurgo. On...
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Virago3369 ₽
One Pair of Feet | As the effects of the war raging in Europe begins to be felt at home in London, Monica Dickens decides to do her bit and to pursue a new career, and so enrols as a student nurse at ...
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Virago3376 ₽
Girl Reading | An orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena and an artist's servant girl in seventeenth-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself ...
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Virago2940 ₽
Sin | 'Though she wounded me beyond pain, I too inflicted deep hurt. Not born to murder her, still I sought to break her... Her name was Elizabeth Ashbridge. And I even envied her that.' Sin is about ...
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Virago3431 ₽
Jonah's Gourd Vine | Born on the wrong side of the creek, John Buddy Pearson, the son of a slave, has come a long way since his shoeless days. With some schooling, a job and marriage to clever Lucy Po...
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Virago3376 ₽
Corregidora | Upon publication in 1975, Corregidora was hailed as a masterpiece, winning acclaim from writers including James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and John Updike. Exploring themes suc...
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Virago5064 ₽
The Turnout | The mesmerising new thriller, set in the hothouse world of a ballet school, from the bestselling and award-winning writer Megan Abbott. Dara and Marie were trained as ballet dancers by t...
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Virago3232 ₽
South Riding | When Sarah Burton returns to her hometown as headmistress she is full of ambition, determined to create a great school and to inspire her girls to take all they can from life. But in th...
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Virago3036 ₽
The Wedding Group | '"You know,'"Midge began, and paused. She was rather taken aback, and could not at once think of anything to say. "Perhaps there's nothing so dangerous as having led a sheltered li...
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Virago3376 ₽
The Rector's Daughter | Dedmayne Rectory is quietly decaying, its striped chintz and darkened rooms are a bastion of outmoded Victorian values. Here Mary has spent thirty-five years, devoting herself ...
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Virago3710 ₽
This Real Night | Acknowledged as Rebecca West's fictional masterpiece, The Fountain Overflows introduces the crisis-ridden Aubrey family. This Real Night continues their remarkable story. It is the e...
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Virago3376 ₽
Sacred Hearts | 1570 in the Italian city of Ferrara. Sixteen-year-old Serafina is fipped by her family from an illicit love affair and forced into the convent of Santa Caterina, renowned for its super...
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Virago4738 ₽
Excellent Women | Mildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who are often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations or even the great moments of...
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Virago4191 ₽
Ordinary Families | ‘I was running on happily because it was so good to be able to watch him under cover of my own talk, knowing exactly now what I wanted of him – mind, body, everything’ Lallie is on...
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Virago3294 ₽
A Lady's Life In The Rocky Mountains | Born in 1831, Isabella, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes in 1872 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous...
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Virago3431 ₽
Sankofa | Anna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter is all grown up, and her mother - the only parent who raised...
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Virago2940 ₽
Singin' & Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas | Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she al...
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Virago2940 ₽
Shadow Dance | The scar drew her whole face sideways and even in profile, with the hideous thing turned away, her face was horribly lop-sided, skin, features and all, dragged away from the bone. She w...
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Virago2540 ₽
Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women | This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales...
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Virago4738 ₽
Carrie's War | 'I did a dreadful thing, the worst thing of my life, when I was twelve and a half years old, and nothing can change it' It is wartime and Carrie and her little brother Nick have been ev...
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Virago3232 ₽
Miss Mole | 'Who would suspect her sense of fun and irony, of a passionate love for beauty and the power to drag it from its hidden places? Who would imagine that Miss Mole had pictured herself, at di...
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Virago3157 ₽
Heartburn | Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. The fact that this woman has a 'neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb' is n...
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Virago2940 ₽
The Bay Of Noon | The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place. Among the protagonists is Jenny, young and pretty, who has come to Naples in flight...
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Virago3814 ₽
A Game Of Hide And Seek | Intelligent and haunting, with echoes of Brief Encounter, this is a love story by one of the best British writers of the 20th century. During summer games of hide and seek Ha...
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Virago2664 ₽
The Yellow Wallpaper | Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrenched this small literary masterpiece from her own experience. Narrated with superb psychological skill and dramatic precision, it tells the story of...
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Virago3376 ₽
The Vet's Daughter | Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary, restrictive and lonely. Her father, a vet, is hars...
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Virago3431 ₽
In the Full Light of the Sun | Based on a true story, unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, this gripping tale is about beauty and justice, and the truth that may be found whe...
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Virago3669 ₽
George Eliot | One of the most brilliant writers of her day, George Eliot (1819-1880) was also one of the most talked about. Intellectual and independent, she had the strength to defy polite society w...
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Virago3376 ₽
The Group | The Group follows eight graduates from exclusive Vassar College as they find love and heartbreak, forge careers, gossip and party in 1930s Manhattan. The Group can be seen as the original ...
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Virago3814 ₽
In The Company of the Courtesan | The breathtaking historical novel about love, beauty, the politics of sex and the power of loyalty set in Venice, by the bestselling author of Sacred Hearts. With the...
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Virago3814 ₽
Pomfret Towers | Alice Barton finds adventure during a Friday-to-Monday at a grand country house in Angela Thirkell's classic, deliciously diverting 1930s romantic comedy. Pomfret Towers, Barsetshire ...
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Virago3431 ₽
Up The Junction | Published in 1963 Up the Junction won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, was adapted into a film and was the inspiration for the song of the same name. The girls - Rube, Lily an...
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Virago3376 ₽
The Headmistress | 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, evacuated from London, has taken over...
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Virago2940 ₽
Stone Mattress | A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the litt...
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Virago3036 ₽
The Orchard on Fire | 'What made the orchard miraculous was an abandoned railway carriage, set down as if by magic, its wheels gone, anchored by long grass and nettles. Ruby and I stared at it and eac...
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Virago3376 ₽
Union Street | Vivid, bawdy and bitter' (The Times), Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh challeges of poverty and survival in a precarious world....
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Virago3814 ₽
The Birth Of Venus | Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a young painter back with him from Holland to adorn the walls of the new family chapel. She is fascinate...
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Virago3029 ₽
Miss Bunting | Barsetshire in the war years. Miss Bunting, governess of choice to generations of Barsetshire aristocracy, has been coaxed out of retirement by Sir Robert and Lady Fielding to tutor the...
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Virago3376 ₽
The Room Of Lost Things | Under his railway arch in Loughborough Junction, South London, Robert Sutton is taking leave of a lifetime of hard work. His dry-cleaning shop lies at the heart of a lively c...
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Virago2940 ₽
In Diamond Square | First published in 1962 as 'La Placa del Diamant', this is considered the most important Catalan novel of all time. This is a new English translation. Barcelona, early 1930s: Natal...
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Virago3814 ₽
Territorial Rights | Witty yet elegant, Territorial Rights is a celebration of human imperfection and complexity, with as many shifting identities, wardrobe changes, and sumptuous settings as a comic ...
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Virago3376 ₽
Mrs Miniver | Shortly before the Second World War, a column by 'Mrs Miniver' appeared in The Times, the first of many recounting the everyday events of a middle-class Chelsea family: Mrs Miniver's thr...
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Virago3294 ₽
Careless People. Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby | Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books. Careless people tells the true s...
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Virago2940 ₽
Jack | Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the final in one of the great works of contemporary Americ...
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Virago3036 ₽
Chasm. A Weekend | The estate is called Windcote, 'its very name a masquerade', and its master, the odious Raoul Meridian, has invited a group of guests to spend a weekend, during the course of which ...
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Virago3376 ₽
Several Perceptions | Centre stage in Angela Carter's unruly tale of the Flower Power Generation is Joseph - a decadent, disorientated rebel without a cause. A self-styled nihilist whose girlfriend ha...
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Virago3376 ₽
Invitation to the Waltz | A diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, a ten-shilling note, and a roll of flame-coloured silk for her first evening dress: these are the gifts Olivia Curtis re...
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Virago3376 ₽
The Public Image | Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public under her spell, her perfect image mus...
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Virago3157 ₽
Frenchman's Creek | The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly, any outrage that will alter the tedium of her days. But there is another, secret Dona who longs for freedo...
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Virago3376 ₽
A Feather on the Breath of God | A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother, who meet in postwar Germany and settle in New York Cit...
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Virago3376 ₽
A Quiet Life | Seventeen-year-old Alan can't stand rows. But, though the Second World War has ended, peace hangs by a fine thread at home: his troublesome sister Madge creeps off for night-time liaiso...
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Virago3814 ₽
The Edible Woman | Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancee and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that wou...
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Virago3036 ₽
Symposium | One October evening five London couples gather for a dinner party, enjoying ‘the pheasant (flambe in cognac as it is)’ and waiting for the imminent arrival of the late-coming guest Hilda D...