You can pre-order SIGNED copies of Sandi Toksvig's debut novel Friends of Dorothy right now!

I'm REALLY looking forward to this one!

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Friends, I have some more good birthday news! I’m delighted to reveal the cover for my new novel, Friends of Dorothy. It’s a book which has my heart – and it’s funny too!
 
Signed copies are available to pre-order now: geni.us/FriendsofDorot…

From the author of Cold Comfort Farm, Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons is a modern, satirical fairytale and we're delighted to be reading it for May's #VMCBookClub 🍏

🍏 'What luxury to stumble upon this quirky book, and the fascinating modern woman who wrote it' SOPHIE DAHL

💛'A compelling reconstruction of her mother's life as a young anti-nuclear activist defying her surburban parents' Catherine Taylor, Financial Times💛

Before the Light Fades by Natasha Walter is out in paperback today: brnw.ch/21wJoca

This is a book for anyone who loves language - and for feminists who want to look to the past in order to move forward.

What words will you rediscover?

Mother Tongue by Jenni Nuttall is out today: brnw.ch/21wJo7p

In her bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, Åsne Seierstad studied life in Afghanistan before and after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.

Now twenty years later, the Taliban is back in power, and Seierstad returns with The Afghans.

Find out more: virago.co.uk/titles/åsne-se…

'Women's sports have needed a manifesto for a long time. With Good for a Girl, we finally have one' Malcolm Gladwell

William Hill Sports Book of the Year, @LaurenFleshman's Good for a Girl is coming to paperback this month: brnw.ch/21wJlOz

We're absolutely thrilled to see Mirinae Lee's 8 Lives of a Century Old Trickster longlisted for the #WilburSmith #AdventureWritingPrize .

Find out more: wilbur-niso-smithfoundation.org/index.php/awar…

Out from Virago this May. . .

⭐The Afghans by Åsne Seierstad
⭐Before the Light Fades by Natasha Walter
⭐Mother Tongue by Jenni Nuttall
⭐Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott
⭐Good for a Girl by Lauren Fleshman

Visit our store now: brnw.ch/21wJlpU

A family story of resistance from the acclaimed writer and thinker Natasha Walter, a moving memoir about the loss of a mother and honouring the legacy of a family.

💛'A fascinating story' Sarah Waters

Out 2nd May in paperback: brnw.ch/21wJjR6

i have started one of my most anticipated reads this year (so far very much not disappointed)

Spinster. Cougar. Carer. Matron. Wife.

A rich, provocative and entertaining history of women's words - of the language we have, and haven't, had to share our lives.

Read an extract of Mother Tongue by Jenni Nuttall now: brnw.ch/21wJeL6

🌞MANCHESTER, WE’RE ON OUR WAY! 🌞

📚This month, we’ll be reading Mirinae Lee’s 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster — a novel about love and war, deceit and betrayal, about identity, storytelling and the trickery required for survival set in Korea. eventbrite.com/e/the-thawra-b…

A family story of resistance from the acclaimed writer and thinker Natasha Walter

💛'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' Sarah Waters

💛'A fierce and beautiful book' Edmund de Waal

Out 2nd May in paperback: brnw.ch/21wJd1S

A powerful mixture of memoir and manifesto, Fleshman's account of how sports systems routinely fail their most promising women athletes is an urgent read.

Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, #GoodForAGirl is out in paperback in May: brnw.ch/21wJ7Sz

In her thought-provoking new book, Åsne Seierstad introduces us to three people whose lives have been shaped by the fall and rise of the Taliban – Jamila, Bashir and Ariana – as well their families, friends, foes and co-fighters.

Out in hardback in May: virago.co.uk/titles/%c3%a5s…