l The Incendiaries is published in hardback by
Virago, PS14.99 (ebook PS7.99).
The 15 year relationship between Shawna
Virago, a folk-punk singer-songwriter with a cult following, and Sean Dorsey, a critically-acclaimed dancer and choreographer, has fueled their own creative, cultural, and political accomplishments--and helped elevate the work of dozens of other trans artists.
Virago, an international publisher of books by women, plans to publish graphic novels for the first time and has acquired rights to two titles in the genre, book trade magazine The Bookseller revealed on Tuesday.
IN THE Surreal Life Of Leonora Carrington (
Virago, PS20, ebook PS9.99), a biography-cum-memoir, the surrealist artist's cousin Joanna Moorhead offers a unique perspective on her relative.
Gayle's mother, Mildred Abramowitz Kirschenbaum, now 92, comes off as a figure out of a Philip Roth novel: larger-than-life, selfish, cruel, passive-aggressive, and aggressive-aggressive, a
virago of venom.
Virago Modern Classics have reissued two titles by Rumer Godden: an author who will be largely unknown to modern children, but who published over 60 acclaimed books for children and adults.
THE PAYING GUESTS by Sarah Waters
Virago, PS20 (ebook PS7.99) METICULOUS, Fingersmith and Tipping The Velvet writer Sarah Waters heads back a century for her sixth novel.
RATING: 4/5 RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA by Kimberly McCreight (
Virago, PS6.99 paperback, ebook PS2.85) KIMBERLY MCCREIGHT'S debut novel is a colourful re-imagining of the generic mother-daughter relationship, rejuvenated by adding a spike of psychological thriller.
Sean Dorsey and Shawna
Virago are a transgender power couple.
? Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn (
Virago, PS16.99) Everything But The Girl singer Tracey Thorn's memoir documents her life in music from awkward teenage wannabe punk in the late 1970s through to 2007, which finds her as a happy stay-athome mum.
Neither is the narrator, Jessica Walsh, a
virago charged with protecting her fellow citizens, paranormal and otherwise, from evil that lurks in Nightshade.
By: Chioma Okereke Published by
Virago Press ISBN: 978-1-84408-627-6
Letter To My Daughter, by Maya Angelou, is published in hardback by
Virago, priced pounds 12.99.
THE LITTLE STRANGER by Sarah Waters (
Virago pounds 16.99) ***
