DISCOVER Virago: RBF 2025 Publisher HIGHLIGHTS
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A feminist press committed to amplifying the widest range of women writers and elevating voices from all backgrounds. Since they began in 1973, their mission has been to champion women’s voices and bring them to the widest possible readership around the world.
From fiction and politics to history and classic children’s stories, our writers continue to win acclaim, break new ground and enrich the lives of readers.
The name Virago (meaning heroic war-like woman or, as the Thesaurus has it a name for a particular kind of woman: biddy, bitch, dragon, fire-eater, fury, harpy, harridan, hussy, muckraker, scold, she-devil, siren, spitfire, termagant, tigress, vituperator, vixen, wench) signaled the founders’ intent to challenge, entertain, enrich, raise eyebrows and revolutionise the literary landscape.
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- A Place of Our Own : Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture
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- June Thomas
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- Furies : Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 16 bestselling, award-winning authors
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- Atwood, Margaret, Smith, Ali, Donoghue, Emma, Logan, Kirsty, Onuzo, Chibundu, O'Donoghue, Caroline,
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- The Times I Knew I Was Gay : A Graphic Memoir 'for everyone. Candid, authentic and utterly charming' Sarah Waters
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- Crewes, Eleanor
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- Fingersmith
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- Waters, Sarah
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- Tipping The Velvet
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- Waters, Sarah
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- Trans Like Me : A Journey for All of Us
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- Lester, C. N.
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- Lullaby Beach : 'A PORTRAIT OF SISTERHOOD ... POWERFUL, WISE, CELEBRATORY' Daily Mail
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- Duffy, Stella
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- Wise Women : Myths and stories for midlife and beyond
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- Blackie, Sharon
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- The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister: Vol. 1 : I Know My Own Heart: The Inspiration for Gentleman Jack
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- Lister, Anne, Whitbread, Helena, Whitbread, Helena
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- The Well Of Loneliness
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- Hall, Radclyffe, Souhami, Diana
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- The Charioteer : A Virago Modern Classic
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- Renault, Mary, Russell Beale, Simon
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- Rebecca
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- Du Maurier, Daphne
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- Friends of Dorothy : The funny and brilliant new novel from the star of QI - an instant Sunday Times bestseller
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- Toksvig, Sandi
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- Between the Stops : The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus
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- Toksvig, Sandi
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- Exhibit
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- Kwon, R. O.
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- The Unfamiliar : A Queer Motherhood Memoir
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- Logan, Kirsty
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- Easy Beauty : On Seeing and Being Seen
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- Jones, Chloe Cooper
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- The Return Of The Soldier
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- West, Rebecca