To celebrate Virago's fiftieth birthday, fifteen award-winning, bestselling authors have written original stories embodying the spirit of Virago: feminist, fearless, fun, wild and defiant of convention.

Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of…

The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world.

Frog Music is a wonderfully evocative novel of intrigue and murder from Emma Donoghue, the author of the international bestseller Room, an emotive and powerful novel that was shortlisted for…

From the author of Slammerkin, a gripping historical novel about three famous Londoners - an artist, an actress and an aristocrat - based on a true scandal of 18th century…

With poems in English by over one hundred female poets – American, English, Scottish, Canadian, South African, Indian, Irish, and Australian – this is an extraordinary collection that pays homage…

Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, July 2020. –Title page verso.