Today we celebrate:
40 years of challenging the status quo.
40 years of changing the literary landscape.
40 years of green spines.
Today we are celebrating 40 years of Virago Modern Classics. Share your collections with us using #VMC40!
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- If you're looking for a book to make you laugh, take a listen to the audiobook of #TalkingasFastAsICan by @thelaurengraham #BooksforChange
- #SusanFerrier sold more copies of her novels than her contemporary, Jane Austen. Sir Walter Scott declared her his equal.Why, then has she been lost to history? 2018 is the 200th anniversary of Marriage, her sharply observed, comic novel. It is time to rediscover her brilliance.
- Talking As Fast As I Can has made it into the final round of the @goodreads Choice Awards! Cast your vote for @thelaurengraham here: goodreads.com/choiceawards/b…
- We're delighted to celebrate the dark heart of Daphne du Maurier's writing with a new hardback collection of 13 of her most haunting stories, introduced by @StephenKing. After Midnight | Coming October 2025 Find out more: brnw.ch/21wNcep
- Invaluable life advice from the one and only @thelaurengraham wrapped up in a beautiful book. Out next week - pre-order your copy now fal.cn/40Wb
- 💚📗🍏 An elegant and iconic new design for our Modern Classics list: a love letter to our original ‘green spines’ 🍏📗💚 Launching in Jan with ten titles ranging from beloved novels to acerbic essays, unsettling masterpieces to feminist gamechangers ➡ brnw.ch/21wLiLH
- We are thrilled at the news that Sarah Waters has been awarded an OBE for services to literature, in the Queen's Birthday Honours. HUGE congratulations Sarah!
- Gilmore Girls fans get ready!🍁 We’re so thrilled that @thelaurengraham’s wildly entertaining essay collection is OUT NOW🎉 HAVE I TOLD YOU THIS ALREADY? is a candid, insightful, and wildly entertaining essay collection🔗fal.cn/3tBVe
- 'Sad goodbye to Carmen Callil. Devastated she won’t be part of the 50th celebrations for the imprint she founded to `change the world’. Champion of women, outspoken critic, wonderful friend and utterly unique human being. A genius.' - Lennie Goodings
- 'If you've ever been young, you will love #TheRachelIncident' - @gabriellezevin We're so excited about Caroline O'Donoghue's new novel & to celebrate we're giving away 4x proof copies! Follow & RT to enter, UK only. Closes 12pm, 6 March 💖 4x winners will be chosen at random.
- We are delighted to announce the return of our #GreenSpines! As part of our 40th anniversary celebrations we will be re-introducing green spines across our entire Virago Modern Classics list. Turns out, it is easy being green. #VMC40
- We've come over all festive thanks to this amazing Virago books TREE, created by avid Virago reader Charlotte Featherstone! Do you have enough green spines in your collection to create your own Virago Book Tree? #ViragoBookTree #ViragoGreenSpines #ViragoModernClassics
- Joan Aiken was born #OnThisDay in 1924 - one of the most original storytellers, her influence is still felt today. Only yesterday @neilhimself called her 'one of the most important and interesting children's fiction writers of the last 50 years'
