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 Books in the series:
Virago Modern Classics
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An Academic Question
Barbara Pym,
Kate Saunders
A delightful comedy of manners with a touch of mystery, An Academic Question is prime Barbara Pym territory. In a provincial university town Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband Alan's ambitions. When she...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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Vanishing Cornwall
Daphne Du Maurier
'There was a smell in the air of tar and rope and rusted chain, a smell of tidal water. Down harbour, around the point, was the open sea. Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known. Freedom...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/03/2012
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Lolly Willowes
Sylvia Townsend Warner,
Sarah Waters
Sylvia Townsend Warner's first novel, published in 1926, is magical and subversive, anticipating the ficton of writers like Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson.
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Damage
Josephine Hart
*The debut novel by Josephine Hart, reissued as a Virago Modern Classic - a chilling exploration of physical passion and psychological darkness
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2011
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Sin
Josephine Hart
* A revenger's tragedy of lust, cruelty and betrayal - the magnificent novel from Josephine Hart, reissued now as a Virago Modern Classic
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2011
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A Woman in Berlin
Anonymous
* A startling account of a German survivor of the Second World War. 'One of the most important personal accounts ever written about the effects of war and defeat' Antony Beevor 'One of the most extraordinary and moving books I...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Civil to Strangers
Barbara Pym,
Hazel Holt
This volume includes an early novel and three novellas, which were discovered and published after Barbara Pym's death in 1980.
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2011
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Challenge
Vita Sackville-West,
Stella Duffy
CHALLENGE was written in 1920, but at the last moment it was withdrawn from publication because of the scandal it would have caused. It was inspired by Vita's relationship with Violet Trefusis.
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2011
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Memento Mori
Muriel Spark,
A. L. Kennedy
A brilliant, daring and darkly funny novel by Muriel Spark, 'mistress of the highest high comedy' (The Times)
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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A Glass of Blessings
Barbara Pym,
John Bayley
Barbara Pym was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1978 and is the quintessential VMC author. Following on from the huge success of JANE AND PRUDENCE, this novel was loved by Philip Larkin who declared it 'the subtlest of her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/12/2009
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The Group
Mary McCarthy,
Candace Bushnell
The original SEX AND THE CITY. First published in 1963, THE GROUP, set in the 1930s, follows the lives of eight college friends as they begin their adult lives. 'A brilliant novel:honest, engaging and sharp as a tack' Sarah Waters
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/12/2009
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Some Tame Gazelle
Barbara Pym,
Mavis Cheek
A charming and funny tale of parish life by an author whose many fans include Philip Larkin, Alexander McCall Smith and Jilly Cooper.
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2009
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Hungry Hill
Daphne Du Maurier,
Nina Auerbach
'Hungry Hill' is a passionate story told with du Maurier's unique gift for drama. It follows five generations of an Irish family and the copper mine on Hungry Hill to which their fortunes and fates are so closely bound.
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2008
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Jane and Prudence
Barbara Pym,
Jilly Cooper
A charming and funny tale of match-making misadventures by an author whose fans include Philip Larkin, Alexander McCall Smith and Jilly Cooper.
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/12/2007
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Without My Cloak
Kate O'Brien
Kate O'Brien's first novel, Without My Cloak, is a riveting portrait of three generations of an Irish family: of matches made and lost for the sake of respectability, of divided loyalties, and of freedom suppressed by both religion and the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2006
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The Old Man and Me
Elaine Dundy
Betsy sets out from New York to seduce and betray CD McKee to seek revenge. CD is fat and ugly - but boy, he is sexy. Betsy follows him through the night clubs of London, grooving to jazz, smoking hash...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2005
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The King's General
Daphne Du Maurier,
Justine Picardie
Honor Harris is only 18 when she first meets Richard Grenvile, proud, reckless - and utterly captivating. But following a riding accident, Honor must reconcile herself to a life alone. As Richard rises through the ranks of the army, marries...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2004
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Submerged
A. L. Barker
A.L. Barker unfolds tales of cunning, fancy and shifting alliances. A young boy fosters grand illusions; a wife faces broken promises; a dutiful committee woman meets a sparky old gentleman; a witch is drowned; and an intruder insinuates himself into...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2003
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The House on the Strand
Daphne Du Maurier,
Celia Brayfield
Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as guinea pig for a new drug Magnus has discovered in his biochemical research; the effect of which is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2003
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Frenchman's Creek
Daphne Du Maurier,
Julie Myerson
The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly, anything to alter the tedium of her days. But there is another Dona who longs for a life of honest love - even if it is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2003
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Jamaica Inn
Daphne Du Maurier,
Sarah Dunant
On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn to honour her mother's dying request. The warning of the coachman echoes in her memory as, terrified of the inn's brooding power, she becomes...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2003
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The Good Husband
Gail Godwin
Magda is dying of cancer, and is attended by her selfless husband Francis, who abandoned the priesthood 25 years earlier when they fell in love. They are still devoted. In contrast to them, their friends Alice and Hugo are falling...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/12/2002
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84 Charing Cross Road
Helene Hanff
A timeless classic that should be on every book-lover's 'must read' list. First published in 1971, 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD has never been out of print.
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/10/2002
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The Bondwoman's Narrative
Hannah Crafts
The first novel ever written by a woman who had been a slave! An historically important literary event. A gripping autobiographical novel.
Format: Paperback - Released: 23/05/2002
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Provincial Daughter
R.M. Dashwood
A wonderfully witty precursor to BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY from the real-life daughter -- who appeared as Vicky in her mother's DIARY OF A PROVINCIAL LADY -- of E.M. Delafield
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2002
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A Woman of Independent Means
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
A bestselling sensation when first published in 1978 and told in letters; this is the story of the remarkable life of a woman of independent means at the turn of the century
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/03/2000
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The Collected Stories
Grace Paley
Regarded as one of the finest short story writers in America - this volume presents her collected works 'A voice like no one else's: funny, sad, lean, modest, energetic, acute' - SUSAN SONTAG
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/1999
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Kinflicks
Lisa Alther
Meet Ginny Babcock, a woman of the 1960s, flower child, cheerleader, dutiful daughter and wayward wife The classic novel of the 1960s woman, yearning for security, desperate for adventure The clever, wicked, honest and tragic forerunner to BRIDGET JONES
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/1999
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Expensive People
Joyce Carol Oates
First publication in Virago Modern Classics for one of Joyce Carol Oates' finest novels, an electrifying novel told from the view point of a precocious, pathological teenager.
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/1998
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Several Perceptions
Angela Carter
Joseph - a 22-year-old self-styled nihilist in search of meaning, found releasing a badger from a zoo, seducing his best friend's mother, dancing at a Dionysic revel and spending his days in a mortuary - is the anti-hero at the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/1997
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The Wedding
Dorothy West
Set in the Elysian isle of Martha's Vineyard, among an insular community of proud and prosperous black families, this novel centres around the marriage of the daughter of the community's foremost family to a struggling, white jazz musician.
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/02/1997
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A Virtuous Woman
Kaye Gibbons
When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was 20 and he was 40. Gibbons provides a convincing portrait of two seemingly ill-matched people who somehow miraculously make a marriage.
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/08/1996
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Pirates at Play
Violet Trefusis,
Lisa St. Aubin De Teran
Published to coincide with a biography of Violet Trefusis, this romantic comedy set in the Twenties shows young aristocrat, Elizabeth Caracole being finished in Florence with the family of a Papal count - the dentist. All five brothers fall for...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/04/1996
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Three Weeks
Elinor Glyn,
Sally Beauman
In this novel Paul Verdayne is fascinated by a mysterious beauty staying in his Swiss hotel. In a setting of tuber-roses and tiger skins, the lady initiates him into the arts of love. This is one of Virago's trio of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/02/1996
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The Sheik
E.M. Hull,
Kate Saunders
The wilful heroine of this novel is kidnapped and subjugated by the cruel but strangely compelling Sheik Ahmed, who, it emerges, is not all that he seems. This is one of Virago's trio of turn-of-the-century erotic novels, with Three Weeks...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/02/1996
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The Way of an Eagle
Ethel M. Dell,
Rosie Thomas
This novel opens in India, as the shrinking Muriel is rescued from danger by dashing Nick Ratcliffe, the regimental scamp. She agrees to a betrothal, then breaks it off for clean-cut Blake Grange. This is one of Virago's trio of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/02/1996
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Twilight Sleep
Edith Wharton,
Penelope Farmer
A portrait of 1920s New York society. 7.30 Mental uplift. 7.45 Breakfast. 8 Psychoanalysis. 8.15 See cook . And so begins another day in the elegant, langorous world of the Manford family around whom this ironic and amusing study of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/01/1996
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The Transit of Venus
Shirley Hazzard
Adventurous Caro is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist Ted, she is to find that love brings sorrow as well as passion whilst her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/12/1995
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Good Daughters
Mary Hocking
The first volume of a trilogy which spans both the years of wartime and the fortunes of one London family. The Fairley daughters are growing up in the traditional world maintained by their Methodist father. This world is shaken by...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/1995
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Shadow Dance
Angela Carter
In this, her first novel, Angela Carter tells a tale of shattered beauty and male camaraderie.
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/1995
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Christopher and Columbus
Elizabeth von Arnim
*The story of orphaned Anglo-German twins struggling to find acceptance in England and America at the outbreak of the First World War.
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/04/1994
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Lolly Willowes or the Loving Huntsman
Sylvia Townsend Warner
'A novel as original in its conception as it is subtle and refined in its artistry' TLS This, the author's most magical novel, introduced the theme of women's liberty that Virginia Woolf later explored in A Room of One's Own
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/10/1993
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The Dud Avocado
Elaine Dundy,
Rachel Cooke
Hugely entertaining novel of sex, lies and Americans in Paris Dripping with the sarcasm those Americans are not supposed to have
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/08/1993
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Seventh Heaven
Alice Hoffman
During the summer of 1959, the residents of a sleepy Long Island neighbourhood go about their suburban lives. Then Nora Silk moves in and unsettles a world carefully underpinned by two unspoken rules: mind your own business and keep up...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/04/1992
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The Selected Stories
Sylvia Townsend Warner
In the selection of her stories from 1932 to 1977, the author casts a kind but piercing eye on human quirks and passions, as well as chronicling the events of Elfland.
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/05/1990
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Pilgrimage One
Dorothy M. Richardson
The first of a four-volume work by Dorothy Richardson, this novel records the life of Miriam Henderson. Through her experience - personal, spiritual, intellectual - the author explores what it means to be a woman.
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/04/1989
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Cousin Rosamund
Rebecca West
Rich in period detail, lyrical in its evocation of the Thames, a novel that reveals both the problems of marriage and the ecstasies of sexual love
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/12/1988
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Treasure Hunt
M.J. Farrell
By the author of Loving and Giving . Sir Roderick's legacy to the younger generation is a host of debts. To the outrage of their elders, Philip and Veronica decide to do the unspeakable and take in paying guests.
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/1988
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Up the Junction
Nell Dunn
The girls - Rube, Lily and Sylvie - work at McCrindle's sweet factory during the week and on Saturday they go up the Junction in their clattering stilettos, think about new frocks on H.P., drink tea in the cafe, and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/04/1988
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Poor Cow
Nell Dunn
Our Joy walks down Fulham Broadway carrying week-old baby Jonny. Twenty-two, with bleached hair and shoes too high, she dreams about oh, loads of things - to have something, to be something . Then her husband Tom is sent to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/04/1988
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This Real Night
Rebecca West
A powerful exposition of the strange necessity of artistic endeavour -- and its limitations, the struggle of light against darkness, good against evil, played out against the coming of the First World War
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/12/1987
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Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
Barbara Comyns
It's the height of summer, and in this tiny Warwickshire village, all is not well. Ducks swim through the drawing-room windows, Ebin Willoweed rows his daughters round the submerged garden, and Grandmama dresses up in a magenta gown for her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/01/1987
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The Birds Fall Down
Rebecca West
Through a vivid canvas layered with intrigue, conspiracy and murder, Rebecca West has created a story that is at once a family saga, a political thriller, a philosophical drama and a historical novel.
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/11/1986
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The Skin Chairs
Barbara Comyns
When her father dies, ten-year-old Frances, her mother and siblings are taken under the wing of their horsey relations, led by the formidable Aunt Lawrence. Living in patronised poverty isn't fun, but Frances makes friends with Mrs Alexander, who has...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/07/1986
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Lucy Gayheart
Willa Cather,
A. S. Byatt
At the turn of the century, Lucy is a talented pianist, studying music in Chicago, returning occasionally to provincial Haverford, the town of her birth. She meets and falls in love with a middle-aged opera singer whose influence will change...
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/12/1985
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The Aloe
Katherine Mansfield
This edition of THE ALOE, prepared by Vincent O'Sullivan, is a unique testimony to the distinctive and innovative writing for which Katherine Mansfield is so famous.
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/04/1985
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Sisters by a River
Barbara Comyns
a childhood memoir with all the appeal of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll for fans of Stevie Smith
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/01/1985
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The Fountain Overflows
Rebecca West
Set in the year 1900, this is a story of family love and family feuds, of three girls growing up in the Edwardian era determined to live lives of their own. The author also wrote Sunflower , Cousin Rosamund ,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/12/1984
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The Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty
A reflective, poignant novel of independence and love from one of America's greatest contemporary Southern writers.
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/10/1984
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The Reef
Edith Wharton,
Marilyn French
A novel first published in 1913. George Darrow, a young diplomat en route from London to France, is engaged to be married to a respectable widow, but when she asks for time to prepare her children for the marriage he...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/1983
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A Model Childhood
Christa Wolf
This novel is a testament of what seemed at the time a fairly ordinary childhood, in the bosom of a normal Nazi family in Landsberg. Other work by the author includes The Quest for Christa and No Place on Earth...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/02/1983
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Union Street
Pat Barker
an early work by the winner of the 1995 Booker Prize
Format: Paperback - Released: 13/05/1982
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My Brilliant Career
Miles Franklin
The story of a young girl's dreams, aspirations and melodramas told with zest and verve by the 16-year-old author
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/07/1980
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The Return of the Soldier
Rebecca West
A soldier returns from the front to the women who love him. Shell-shocked, he can only remember Margaret, his first love, of 15 years before. His cousin he remembers as a childhood playmate; his wife he remembers not at all....
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/06/1980
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Mary Olivier, a Life
May Sinclair,
Jean Radford
Born in 1865, Mary Olivier is the youngest of four. Mamma, the archetype of all women who rule through weakness and suffering, dominates her Victorian household, idolizing her sons, rejecting the independent love of her only daughter. Mary, in response,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/04/1980
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Over the Frontier
Stevie Smith
A powerful novel about cruelty in a world preparing for war, and a profound exploration of ambition, militarism, love, loyalty and death
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/01/1980
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