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October 2023

  • Black and white portrait of Elizabeth Mavor smiling

    A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor review – a transgressive classic rediscovered

    This newly republished 1973 novel about a bookshop owner’s love life is funny, surprising and unpredictable

June 2023

  • Ursula Owen, a former director of Virago Press.

    Paying tribute to Virago’s former directors

  • Poking holes in a smothering blanket … founders Marsha Rowe (left) and Rosie Boycott at the Spare Rib offices in 1972.

    ‘People still do not want women to succeed or be equal. While that is true, you need Virago’: 50 years of the warrior publisher

March 2023

  • group of women

    Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed review – a slick and starry collection of short stories

    Tackling gendered insults head on, A-list authors deliver a smart anthology of fun and fearless tales to celebrate Virago’s 50th birthday

October 2022

  • Carmen Callil in a high-collared coat, sitting by a table laden with ornate glassware. Two framed floral still lifes and a copy of A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf are in the background

    Virago founder Carmen Callil remembered by her friend Rachel Cooke: ‘Of course she was difficult’

    The Observer writer on the brilliant publisher, a larger-than-life character among whose many talents was an extraordinary capacity for friendship
  • Susannah Clapp

    Notebook
    A Sultry Month changed how I viewed history. It is well that it has been reissued

    Susannah Clapp
    Faber has blown the dust off Alethea Hayter’s groundbreaking biography of London’s 19th-century literati – not before time
  • Carmen Callil.

    Virago founder Carmen Callil was a powerhouse who changed the publishing world for the better

    The publisher and writer – who has died aged 84 – was a pioneering champion of female writers. Virago’s chair Lennie Goodings remembers her long-time colleague and friend

November 2020

  • Callil’s great-grandparents, Mary Ann Brooks and Alfred Allen (seated, centre), with her grandfather, Ernest (far right), in a photograph taken in Melbourne in 1895.

    Oh Happy Day by Carmen Callil review – tearful compassion and eloquent rage

    The Virago Press founder unearths the remarkable tale of her ancestors down under

February 2020

  • Virago’s Lennie Goodings.

    A Bite of the Apple by Lennie Goodings – essential literary memoir

    The Virago publisher is eloquent and inspiring on writing – but her memoir lacks grit and gossip

December 2019

  • Journalist and author Kate Figes, who has written a book about couples, and what really goes on in other people's relationships. Commissioned for Family

    Kate Figes obituary

    Writer who excelled as an astute observer of people, in books exploring relationships and family life

December 2018

  • Jane Havell

    Other lives
    Jane Havell obituary

    Other lives: Partner in the independent publishing house Maia Press

June 2018

  • Convent school pupils queue to wish one of their classmates happy birthday.

    Antonia White’s Frost in May explores and invokes the rituals of power

    With its twisted ethic and casual cruelty, this 1933 classic about convent school life reads as dystopian fantasy today

April 2017

  • Rebecca Swift speaking at The Literary Consultancy's What's Your Story? conference in 2016

    Rebecca Swift obituary

    The pioneering founder of a literary consultancy dedicated to helping aspiring writers

November 2015

  • Illustration of Kim Gordon, Chrissie Hynde, Carrie Brownstein, Viv Albertine and Grace Jones

    ‘The history of punk was always HIS story’: the women rewriting rock

    Music memoirs by artists such as Chrissie Hynde and Viv Albertine are taking the publishing world by storm

January 2015

  • Carmen Callil, founder of Virago Press, 1996.

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 26 January 1981: Virago Press gives women writers a voice

    Originally published in the Guardian on 26 January 1981: Carmen Callil’s publishing company has set about proving that there are many excellent but neglected women writers well worth publishing and reprinting

July 2013

  • Lennie Goodings, Virago publisher

    Lennie Goodings: 'Virago survived because it's a brand with a philosophy'

    The books interview: as women's imprint Virago turns 40, its boss declares herself ever ready to take a risk on an author

June 2013

  • Virago at 40

    Reading by numbers: a celebration of Virago at 40

  • Virago at 40

    Sarah Waters' Virago at 40 quiz – answers

March 2013

  • vera brittain

    Testament of Youth: Vera Brittain's classic, 80 years on

  • Virago women in 1988

    Has Virago changed the publishing world's attitudes towards women?

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