Virago
The Bolter
Frances Osborne, the great-granddaughter of Idina Sackville, has written a shockingly candid biography of a brazen woman who defied the…
Apology For The Woman Writing
Editors' choice
France in the 16th century. Marie de Gournay is a self-educated “difficult” child whose life is centred in her dead…
Black Orchids
The first ninety pages and the last thirty of this profound novel are arresting, sensual, initially in 1946 Ceylon, later…
Scapegallows
Editors' choice
A ‘scapegallows’ is one who deserves and has narrowly escaped hanging. One such is Margaret Catchpole, born in Suffolk, who…
The Girl from Hockley: Growing Up in Working-Class Birmingham
Kathleen Dayus was born in 1903, and this new edition combines several of her works into a volume telling the…
Beyond These Walls – Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto
This is the vivid and compelling autobiography of Janina Bauman, a young Jewish girl (the same age as Anne Frank)…
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