The hidden true story of Jewish women who inspired Poland's Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis

One of the most important...

One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to...

'My life changed. It had been restricted by invisible barriers almost as effectively as the physically restricted lives of my...

'Though she wounded me beyond pain, I too inflicted deep hurt. Not born to murder her, still I sought to break her... Her name...

As the world celebrates and reflects on the beautiful life of Maya Angelou, Virago presents an updated collection of her works of...

Dauntless Liza Jarrett, born at the dawn of the twentieth century, is now in her eighties, frail and facing eviction with her...

Hungry Hill is a passionate story told with du Maurier's unique gift for drama. It follows five generations of an Irish family...

In the final novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader...

'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...

Newly married and with a baby on the way, Jacy has everything she ever wanted. When she and her husband, Jed, go to visit his...

Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography, beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, are a testament to the talents and...

In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon, Vichy France. Her papers say she is a...

It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage son Guy, to finish...

At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories. So when elderly Ms Mook first begins to...

A prize-winning tour de force when it came out in France, this brilliant translation of Violaine Huisman's 'witty, immersive...

Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. The fact that this woman has a...

One of the most brilliant writers of her day, George Eliot (1819-1880) was also one of the most talked about. Intellectual and...

Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books. Careless people tells the true...

A Wild & True Relation opens during the Great Storm of 1703, as smuggler Tom West confronts his lover Grace for betraying him to...

Born in 1831, Isabella, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes in 1872 'in search of health' and found she had...

A.L. Barker dissects the unnerving emotions of everyday life with the sly humour and exquisite feel for language that prompted...

White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl growing up the hard way. It is a powerful story of mothers...

The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place.

Among the protagonists is...

Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted...

When the beautiful, ambitious actress Regina takes Fosca into her life and learns his amazing truth, she is obsessed with the...

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...

Shortly before the Second World War, a column by 'Mrs Miniver' appeared in
The Times, the first of many recounting the everyday...

To his parents' dismay, Colin Keith - out of the noble but misplaced sense of duty peculiar to high-minded young university...

On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining...

1570 in the Italian city of Ferrara. Sixteen-year-old Serafina is fipped by her family from an illicit love affair and forced...