Virago

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize'Brilliantly done . . . the period detail never ...

Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The N...

The Observing Eye is a collection of Muriel Spark's brilliant asides, sayings, and aphorisms. No other writer can hold a candle to her wry, puckish...

'A gloriously funny novel . . . it still brings a smile to my face forty years later' JILLY COOPER'Definitely demonic, exquisitely carved, deadly m...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'One of the last century's most original literary talents' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Wickedly readable . . . every woma...

WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S FICTION'Warm and funny, this tale of a pint-size pig and the family he saves will take up a giant space...

'Renault's masterpiece. One of the greatest historical novels ever written' SARAH WATERSIn the second novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault v...

'Mary Renault's portraits of the ancient world are fierce, complex and eloquent, infused at every turn with her life-long passion for the Classics....

Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public unde...

BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA INTRODUCED BY ALISON LIGHT'The genuine, thoughtful voice of a woman whose works have been loved by millions' N...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'Mary Farren went into the gun room one morning about half-past eleven, took her husband's revolver and loade...

1920. The Great War has been over for two years, and it has left a very different world from the Edwardian certainties of 1914. Following the death...

1920. The Great War has been over for two years, and it has left a very different world from the Edwardian certainties of 1914. Following the death...

'Spellbinding . . . Probably her best fiction' - Sunday TimesThe soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, w...

By the bestselling author of Black Narcissus and The Battle of the Villa Fiorita'The River will make you laugh, make you cry and, in its way, chang...

'You can't stop days or rivers . . . 'Harriet is between two worlds. Her older sister is no longer a playmate, her brother is still a child. And th...

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...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'What a magnificent thriller this is' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of f...

When former infantry officer Laurence Bartram is called to the small village of Easton Deadall, he is struck by the beauty of the place: a crumblin...

Rosamond Lehmann, one of the most distinguished British writers of this century, published eight acclaimed works of fiction. Her only autobiographi...

A relationship was a mathematical formula: the correct variables of age, beauty, morality and finances were entered and the output was a successful...

INTRODUCED BY JANE GARDAM'A small Gothic masterpiece . . . I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities' ...

Christmas began with a good but harassed woman giving birth in difficult domestic circumstances. Somewhere between then and now the circumstances ...