The estate is called Windcote, 'its very name a masquerade', and its master, the odious Raoul Meridian, has invited a group of...

Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer, travelling to small towns, converting sceptics, restoring minds and bodies. But before...

An intense, searing novel exploring the damage of racial and sexual violence.

Eva Medina Canada sits in her psychiatric ward,...

Upon publication in 1975, Corregidora was hailed as a masterpiece, winning acclaim from writers including James Baldwin, Maya...

She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the...

Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive...

Barsetshire in the war years. Miss Bunting, governess of choice to generations of Barsetshire aristocracy, has been coaxed out of...

Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A...

Mr Marling, of Marling Hall, has begun to accept - albeit reluctantly - that he will probably never be able to pass his wonderful...

Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He...

Owls Do Cry is the story of the Withers family: Francie, soon to leave school to start work at the woollen mills; Toby, whose...

'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?...

‘During that burning day when we were crossing Iowa, our talk kept returning to a central figure, a Bohemian girl whom we had...

It's Saturday, past midnight, and thick fog rolls in from the river like smoke. Link Williams is standing on the dock when he...

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.

Remember you...

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

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

Behind the gates of Temple Alice the...

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

Lady Charlotte...

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

In myth, Theseus was the slayer of the child-devouring Minotaur of Crete. What the hero might have been in real life is another...

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...

When Barbara Pym died in 1980, she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel, Civil...

'The apathy of Sunday lay upon the streets. Houses were closed, withdrawn.
"They don't know," he thought, "those people inside,...

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...

A brilliant novel about the damage caused by relentless 'niceness'. Uncritical, encouraging, 'the soul of kindness', Flora's help...

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...

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