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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Little Women is one of the most beloved novels in children's literature. A perennial classic with fans the world over. 2018 marks...

One of the most loved and enduring wartime novels, Carrie's War is a modern classic. Published for the first time as a Virago...

Prudence Sarn was born with a cleft palate, her 'precious bane', for which she is persecuted as a witch by her superstitious...

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...

'Dear Sir, I suppose you are pretty pleased with yourself? Superior to everyone, you think. A fancy apartment and a snob dog. You...

A moving book of fiction which could be seen as a collection of eleven stories that is almost a novel...or a novel broken up into...

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

Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets...

'I do know how to behave - believe me, because I know. I have always known...'

Behind the gates of Temple Alice the...

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

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

Margaret Atwood's new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that...

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...

'There was a little unfailing spring, always icy cold and crystal pure, in a certain birch-screened hollow of Rainbow Valley in...

A girl returns from boarding school to her sleepy Merseyside hometown and waits to be reunited with her childhood friend,...

From Noel Streatfeild, the author of Ballet Shoes, Caldicott Place is a moving story of unexpected friendships, new beginnings...

A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent by the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings...

Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties for young academics and acting as watchdog for the morals of North...

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

Lady Charlotte...

Published in 1963 Up the Junction won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, was adapted into a film and was the inspiration for...

The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It...

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...

Mildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who are often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most...

The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It...

Mildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who are often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most...

Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancee and quietly awaits marriage....

Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he...

Susie Boyt writes with a mordant wit and vivid style which are at their best in Loved and Missed.
When your beloved daughter is...