Fill your August with books with this list of reading recommendations from members of the Virago team. Books discussed in this episode: Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen Three Women by Lisa Taddeo Less by Andrew Sean Greer Heartburn by Nora Ephron House of Glass by Susan Fletcher Girl by Edna O'Brien A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read by Philippa Perry Let us know what you are reading this summer on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook . Hosted on Acast. S...
Aug 12, 2019•20 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Enter A Stranger City with Linda Grant. In this episode of the Virago podcast Lennie Goodings is in conversation with author Linda Grant, discussing her new novel A Stranger City. Linda Grant is author of five non-fiction books and seven novels. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000 and the Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage in 2006. The Clothes on Their Backs was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and went on to win the South Bank Show Award. The Dark Circle was shortl...
Jul 01, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 15
This month Chair of Virago Press, Lennie Goodings, chatted to Katie Hickman about her new book: She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India 1600 – 1900. She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen is an extraordinary and illuminating book that tells the incredible stories of the first British women to set foot in India - 250 years before the Raj. In this landmark book, celebrated chronicler, Katie Hickman, uncovers stories, until now hidden from history: here is Charlotte Bar...
May 30, 2019•25 min•Season 1Ep. 14
This Virago podcast features Virago Publisher Sarah Savitt in conversation with biographer and journalist Sonia Purnell, discussing Sonia's latest book, A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of WWII's Most Dangerous Spy, Virginia Hall . A Woman of No Importance tells the incredible untold story of Virginia Hall, an American woman with a wooden leg who infiltrated Occupied France for the SOE and became the Gestapo's most wanted Allied spy. Discover five additional unsung heroines on the Vira...
Apr 16, 2019•34 min•Season 1Ep. 13
A few members of the Virago team gathered together earlier this year to discuss 2019 reading resolutions and books we are looking forward to reading this year. In this episode you will hear from Sarah Savitt, Zoe Hood, Hayley Camis, Susan de Soissons, Grace Vincent and Madeleine Hall. Do you have any reading resolutions? Let us know on Twitter using #ViragoPodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 18, 2019•31 min•Season 1Ep. 12
This month we spoke to Clare Clark, author of In the Full Light of the Sun , a gripping tale is about beauty and justice, and the truth that may be found when our most treasured beliefs are revealed as illusions. Clare Clark is the author of five highly acclaimed historical novels, including The Great Stink, Savage Lands (both longlisted for the Orange Prize) and The Nature of Monsters . Born in 1967, she graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with a double first in History, and now lives in ...
Feb 28, 2019•21 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Can We All Be Feminists? is "the intersectional feminist anthology we all need to read" ( Bustle ), edited by June Eric-Udorie, a remarkable and inspiring twenty-year-old activist who the BBC named one of 100 "inspirational and influential women" of 2016. At this year's Durham Book Festival 2018, Hayley Camis (Virago Publicity Manager) spoke to contributor Soofiya Andry about their essay 'Deviant Bodies'. Soofiya is a visual artist, illustrator and designer and has an essay in the collection abo...
Dec 28, 2018•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 10
Virago's Lennie Goodings spoke to Susan Fletcher about her beautiful new novel, House of Glass and we hear Susan read a passage from the novel. As Tracy Chevalier has said, House of Glass starts 'as a ghost story but turns into something much more profound: a lyrical examination of how women carve lives out of a male-dominated society, even with a war looming that will change everyone.' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 29, 2018•24 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Deborah Frances-White is the creator and host of the hit podcast The Guilty Feminist . She is a stand-up comedian best known for her BBC Radio 4 show Deborah Frances-White Rolls the Dice which won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy. Her book, The Guilty Feminist , was a Sunday Times bestseller and described by Emma Thompson as 'essential reading for the planet'. We spoke with Deborah just after the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court, about traversing the boundarie...
Nov 20, 2018•19 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Lara Thompson won the first Virago/The Pool New Crime Writer Award for her novel One Night, New York in 2017 . This is the first episode of a series following Lara through the process of publication - from her writing life before winning the prize (featuring jealousy-inducing stories of a "Writing Shed"), to discovering she won the prize whilst eating in a Vietnamese restaurant and her experience and journey towards becoming a published author. [Please note there is some background noise at one ...
Oct 31, 2018•34 min•Season 1Ep. 7
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics, we sat down with Donna Coonan (Editorial Director) as well as to discuss our baker’s dozen of stunning, deluxe paperbacks and hardback anthology. Later in the episode, Donna speaks to the series designer, Hannah Wood, about the beautiful artwork created by illustrator, Yehrin Tong. Throughout the podcast you will hear the Virago team speaking about each of the books included in the collection. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
Aug 22, 2018•31 min•Season 1Ep. 6
This month we have a double-header for you on the Virago podcast. First up we have Susie Boyt discussing her latest novel, Love & Fame . And then we have Rachel Seiffert in conversation with Lennie Goodings talking about her novel Boy in Winter and the recently rediscovered classic, The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 19, 2018•43 min•Season 1Ep. 5
This month, we speak to Caroline O'Donoghue about her debut novel, Promising Young Women . Promising Young Women is a gothic, darkly witty novel about sex, power, work and being a young woman in a man's world. It is out now in hardback. 'I loved it. The writing is whipsmart and so witty. A fabulous and timely novel.' Marian Keyes 'So brilliant ... Compelling and illuminating ... I highly recommend it.' Dolly Alderton 'A future classic.' Jane Casey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...
Jul 05, 2018•31 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In October 2013 two teenage sisters left Oslo for Syria. What follows is the gripping, heartbreaking story of a family ripped apart. While Sadiq risks his own life to bring his daughters back, at home his wife Sara begins to question their life in Norway. We spoke to author Åsne Seierstad about her new book, Two Sisters . Two Sisters is a powerful and gripping true account of a family torn apart - by the author of the international bestseller, The Bookseller Of Kabul . Hosted on Acast. See acast...
Apr 24, 2018•32 min•Season 1Ep. 3
This month, Sarah Dunant joins us to discuss In the Name of the Family, which we have just published in paperback. Conjuring up the past in all its complexity, horror and pleasures, In The Name of the Family confirms Sarah Dunant's place as the leading novelist of the Renaissance and one of the most acclaimed historical fiction writers of our age. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 22, 2018•28 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Virago has been home to the wonderful Sarah Waters since 1998, when her debut novel Tipping the Velvet was published to rave reviews. Tipping the Velvet is an exuberant, exultant novel. It's saucy and sensuous and followers the glittering career of Nan King, oyster girl turned music hall star turned rent-boy turned East End tom turned feminist. It was a revolutionary novel. Twenty years on, Sarah Waters is one of Britain's most acclaimed novelists; her novels have won praise and awards, and been...
Feb 26, 2018•39 min•Season 1Ep. 1
