50 years of Virago Press, Carmen Callil's Top Picks

Per Hay Festival

Per Hay Festival

50 years of Virago Press, Carmen Callil's Top Picks

Publisher, writer and critic Carmen Callil selects 50 titles to celebrate 50 years of Virago Press exclusively for Hay Festival 2022.

Love Marriage: The Sunday Times bestseller and 'unputdownable...

Monica Ali

Transit

Anna Seghers

The Tick of Two Clocks: A Tale of Moving On

Joan Bakewell

Phoenix Fled

Attia Hosain

Rebecca

Daphne Du Maurier

The Times I Knew I Was Gay: A Graphic Memoir 'for everyone....

Eleanor Crewes

The Street

Ann Petry

Corregidora

Gayl Jones

The Guilty Feminist: The Sunday Times bestseller - 'Breathes...

Deborah Frances-White

Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years...

Vera Brittain

The Dud Avocado

Elaine Dundy

Frost In May

Antonia White

Heartburn: 40th Anniversary Edition

Nora Ephron

The Return Of The Soldier

Rebecca West

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

The Weather In The Streets

Rosamond Lehmann

Rebecca

Daphne Du Maurier

Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery

The Virago Book Of Women Gardeners

Deborah Kellaway

Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties

Rachel Cooke

Vagina: A New Biography

Naomi Wolf

Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont: A Virago Modern Classic

Elizabeth Taylor

The Charioteer: A Virago Modern Classic

Mary Renault

Poor Cow: A Virago Modern Classic

Nell Dunn

Our Spoons Came From Woolworths: A Virago Modern Classic

Barbara Comyns

Life As We Have Known It: The Voices of Working-Class Women

Margaret Llewelyn Davies

The Tortoise And The Hare

Elizabeth Jenkins

Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism

Natasha Walter

A Far Cry From Kensington

Muriel Spark

Edible Woman

Margaret Atwood

Home: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

Marilynne Robinson

The Clothes On Their Backs

Linda Grant

Cooking In A Bedsitter

Katharine Whitehorn

A Game Of Hide And Seek

Elizabeth Taylor

The Night Watch: shortlisted for the Booker Prize

Sarah Waters

The Professor's House

Willa Cather

In A Summer Season

Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth and her German Garden

Elizabeth Von Arnim

The Age of Innocence: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics...

Edith Wharton

The Bookseller Of Kabul: The International Bestseller - 'An...

Asne Seierstad

Desert Flower

Waris Dirie

Like

Ali Smith

The Transit Of Venus

Shirley Hazzard

Landscape For A Good Woman

Carolyn Steedman

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings

Angela Carter

Union Street

Pat Barker

Novel on Yellow Paper

Stevie Smith

Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage

Eileen Atkins