Samantha Raymond's life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and she finds...

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...

'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?...

A gritty, beautiful and darkly funny book of linked stories covering twenty years in the lives of a group of intertwined people...

The mesmerising new thriller, set in the hothouse world of a ballet school, from the bestselling and award-winning writer Megan...

A delightfully appealing 1930s comedy from Angela Thirkell's classic Barsetshire series: the Brandons cheerfully confront matters...

Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics.

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Alice Barton finds adventure during a Friday-to-Monday at a grand country house in Angela Thirkell's classic, deliciously...

They were colour-supplement darlings of the 1980s: Patrick, the sexy, ferocious young playwright, scourge of an enthralled...

June 1914 and a young woman - Clara Waterfield - is summoned to a large stone house in Gloucestershire. Her task: to fill a...

Ruth's going to risk everything to have her daughter's baby...

Ruth Furnival has built the life she always dreamed of: a...

The oyster party had the kiss of death upon it - even though there were two 'R's in the month. Miriam Birdseye - famed revue star...

One glorious gothic mansion - Garonlea - and two rather different ladies who would be Queen . . .

Lady Charlotte...

When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms...

A timeless Cinderella story, A Little Princess is one of the best-loved children's classics of all time. A heartwarming tale that...

If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reunion, neither of them is aware...

Joan Aiken, classic author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, wrote the Armitage family stories all throughout her life - from...

A thrilling first novel - a big, wonderful, romantic wartime story - from the famous broadcaster and journalist. A debut at...

In a Summer Season is one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels in which, in a moving and powerful climax, she reveals love to be...

Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a young painter back with him from Holland to adorn...

Miriam Birdseye is daring, brilliant - and a long way from The Ivy. Our dashing heroine, a famous revue artist, takes to the...

I was now an established citizen with little hope of returning across the frontier; I was in the crazy world, separated now by...

A subtle love story by one of the most accomplished writers of the 20th century

Vinny Tumulty is a quiet, sensible man. When...

Doone Penny is a child with passion, and a gift - he is a born dancer, a ballet genius in the making. But though others may...

Written by the author of "Union Street", "The Century's Daughter" and "The Man Who Wasn't There", this is a story about a killer...

The psychologists would call it folie a deux . . .

'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your...

Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, good-looking and fairly young - but very bored. Her sober...

An unforgettable picture of love, loss and the keeping up of appearances. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to...

An epic of biblical proportions, The Year of the Flood is a feast of imagination and a journey to the end of the world.

Adam...

Dulcie Mainwaring is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola...