Kirsty Logan

Kirsty Logan is a novelist and short story writer. She’s the author of Now She is Witch, Things We Say In The Dark, The Gloaming, The Gracekeepers, A Portable Shelter, and The Rental Heart &amp; Other Fairytales. To mark the publication of her new book, The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir, she talks with Lucy Scholes about writing like no one is reading, pregnancy journeys, disobedient bodies, the gift of sperm donation, and breaking the rules of memoir writing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kirsty Logan is a novelist and short story writer. She’s the author of Now She is Witch, Things We Say In The Dark, The Gloaming, The Gracekeepers, A Portable Shelter, and The Rental Heart &amp; Other Fairytales. To mark the publication of her new book, <a href="https://store.virago.co.uk/products/the-unfamiliar?_pos=1&amp;_sid=b2515e84e&amp;_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir</a>, she talks with Lucy Scholes about writing like no one is reading, pregnancy journeys, disobedient bodies, the gift of sperm donation, and breaking the rules of memoir writing. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Ourshelves with Kirsty Logan

Jamilah Sullivan

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Join Lucy Scholes as she talks with American author Mecca Jamilah Sullivan about her debut novel, Big Girl – reviewed by the New York Times as ‘achingly beautiful’ – about a young black girl growing up in 1990s Harlem. On the table for discussion is coming-of-age fiction, beauty standards, women’s bodies and matrilineal traditions.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join Lucy Scholes as she talks with American author Mecca Jamilah Sullivan about her debut novel, Big Girl – reviewed by the New York Times as ‘achingly beautiful’ – about a young black girl growing up in 1990s Harlem. On the table for discussion is coming-of-age fiction, beauty standards, women’s bodies and matrilineal traditions.  Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Ourshelves with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Caroline O'Donoghue

On the premiere episode of this special series of Ourshelves, commemorating Virago’s 50th anniversary, join Caroline O'Donoghue, New York Times best-selling author and the host of the award-winning podcast Sentimental Garbage, as she talks about her new novel, The Rachel Incident. Listen as Caroline and Lucy Scholes discuss the intersection of Irish women’s fiction with the history of reproductive rights in Ireland, actively reading people you don’t agree with, the emptiness of the phrase ‘girl power’ and misogyny in cultural spaces. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the premiere episode of this special series of Ourshelves, commemorating Virago’s 50th anniversary, join Caroline O'Donoghue, New York Times best-selling author and the host of the award-winning podcast Sentimental Garbage, as she talks about her new novel, <a href="https://store.virago.co.uk/products/the-rachel-incident?_pos=1&amp;_sid=c3e966c17&amp;_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">The Rachel Incident.</a> Listen as Caroline and Lucy Scholes discuss the intersection of Irish women’s fiction with the history of reproductive rights in Ireland, actively reading people you don’t agree with, the emptiness of the phrase ‘girl power’ and misogyny in cultural spaces. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Ourshelves with Caroline O'Donoghue

Shahrukh Husain

Shahrukh Husain, editor of The Virago Book of Witches, who says it represents ` womanhood in all its complexity’ is not at all surprised to see a resurgence of interest in `all things witchy’. The witch knows her strength, defies authority and embodies our current fears of injustice. Shah tells Lucy how the witch can be playful but also terrifying, particularly to men, and about a childhood fascination for the witch. The writer she admires is Attia Hussain, author of Sunlight on a Broken Column, who she remembers was` so joyful’ to know Shah was writing. She, alongside Shah’s mother taught her that her cosmopolitan background – Pakistani, Indian, English – was her strength and made her ` a citizen of the world’. They are Shah’s heroines. Shahrukh's recommendations: On the nightstand: Dame Joan of Pevensey by Rev. E E CrakeOn my mind: the TV-series The Split with Nicola WalkerOn the shelf: Sunlight on a Broken Column and Phoenix Fled by Attia HosseinOn the pedestal: My mother, who worked hard for women's rights and the reform of family laws pertaining to women's rights in Pakistan soon after its inception in 1947 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shahrukh Husain, editor of The Virago Book of Witches, who says it represents ` womanhood in all its complexity’ is not at all surprised to see a resurgence of interest in `all things witchy’. The witch knows her strength, defies authority and embodies our current fears of injustice. Shah tells Lucy how the witch can be playful but also terrifying, particularly to men, and about a childhood fascination for the witch. The writer she admires is Attia Hussain, author of Sunlight on a Broken Column, who she remembers was` so joyful’ to know Shah was writing. She, alongside Shah’s mother taught her that her cosmopolitan background – Pakistani, Indian, English – was her strength and made her ` a citizen of the world’. They are Shah’s heroines. Shahrukh's recommendations: On the nightstand: Dame Joan of Pevensey by Rev. E E CrakeOn my mind: the TV-series The Split with Nicola WalkerOn the shelf: Sunlight on a Broken Column and Phoenix Fled by Attia HosseinOn the pedestal: My mother, who worked hard for women's rights and the reform of family laws pertaining to women's rights in Pakistan soon after its inception in 1947 Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

OurShelves: Witches with Shahrukh Husain

Sharma Taylor

In this special bonus summer episode Sharma Taylor, author of What a Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You, takes us to the heated demi-monde of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1980s, a turbulent time in politics and gangland crime. She tells Lucy Scholes about writing in patois; the Caribbean authors right now who are representing the strength of women in society; and what her mother sacrificed to buy her books as a child.On the nightstand: The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-AgostiniOn my mind: The podcasts Unstoppable Yes You and Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Cocoa Pod On the shelf: This One Sky Day by Leone RossOn the pedestal: My mother. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special bonus summer episode Sharma Taylor, author of What a Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You, takes us to the heated demi-monde of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1980s, a turbulent time in politics and gangland crime. She tells Lucy Scholes about writing in patois; the Caribbean authors right now who are representing the strength of women in society; and what her mother sacrificed to buy her books as a child.On the nightstand: The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-AgostiniOn my mind: The podcasts <a href="https://www.unstoppableyesyou.com/podcast-caribbean-conversations/episode/3e6fa056/scholastic-novelist-shakirah-bourne-on-embracing-her-dialect" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Unstoppable Yes You</a> and <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-8-how-the-one-armed-sister-sweeps-her-home/id1598720414?i=1000548480037" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Cocoa Pod</a> On the shelf: This One Sky Day by Leone RossOn the pedestal: My mother. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

OurShelves: Caribbean voices with Sharma Taylor

Barbara Pym

Clare Chambers is the author of nine novels including Small Pleasures, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize. She joins Lucy Scholes to rave about the inimitable Barbara Pym, a Virago Modern Classic author whose love affairs shocked sixties society and who wrote about vicars’ tea parties with waspish humour and moving brilliance. (Tea: ‘a drink she did not much like because of the comfort it was said to bring to those whom she normally despised.’) Together they compare notes on adapting book to screen with Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, how to evoke the inner voice and the recent, genre-defying book that made Clare think about feminism in a new way.On the nightstand: The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson and Iron Curtain by Vesna Goldsworthy.On my mind: The TV adaptation of Conversations with Friends.On the shelf: In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado.On the pedestal: Fiona Spargo-Mabbs, director of the DSM Foundation, which educates young people to make safer choices around drugs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Clare Chambers is the author of nine novels including Small Pleasures, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize. She joins Lucy Scholes to rave about the inimitable Barbara Pym, a Virago Modern Classic author whose love affairs shocked sixties society and who wrote about vicars’ tea parties with waspish humour and moving brilliance. (Tea: ‘a drink she did not much like because of the comfort it was said to bring to those whom she normally despised.’) Together they compare notes on adapting book to screen with Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, how to evoke the inner voice and the recent, genre-defying book that made Clare think about feminism in a new way.On the nightstand: The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson and Iron Curtain by Vesna Goldsworthy.On my mind: The TV adaptation of Conversations with Friends.On the shelf: In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado.On the pedestal: Fiona Spargo-Mabbs, director of the DSM Foundation, which educates young people to make safer choices around drugs. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

OurShelves: Barbara Pym with Clare Chambers

Cathy Thomas

How does writing about your life change the way you see it? Cathy Thomas talks to Lucy Scholes about her first book, Islanders, interlocking short stories set on her childhood home, Guernsey – the  pleasure of joining the dots and how playwriting informed her structure. Discovering a shared love of Annie Ernaux’s essays, they dive deeply into whether difficult experiences – from publisher rejections to trauma – may be reframed through the power of writing.On the nightstand: We Were Young by Niamh CampbellOn my mind: Olivia Fitzsimons' recent essay, Notes on Resilience, for The Stinging FlyOn the shelf: Annie Ernaux's A Girl's Story. On the pedestal: playwright Caryl Churchill  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How does writing about your life change the way you see it? Cathy Thomas talks to Lucy Scholes about her first book, Islanders, interlocking short stories set on her childhood home, Guernsey – the  pleasure of joining the dots and how playwriting informed her structure. Discovering a shared love of Annie Ernaux’s essays, they dive deeply into whether difficult experiences – from publisher rejections to trauma – may be reframed through the power of writing.On the nightstand: We Were Young by Niamh CampbellOn my mind: Olivia Fitzsimons' recent essay, <a href="https://stingingfly.org/2022/05/04/notes-on-resilience/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Notes on Resilience</a>, for The Stinging FlyOn the shelf: Annie Ernaux's A Girl's Story. On the pedestal: playwright Caryl Churchill  Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

OurShelves: Taking ownership with Cathy Thomas

Stuart Evers

How can men approach their role as feminist allies? Lucy Scholes meets Stuart Evers, award-winning author of four books including Your Father Sends His Love and The Blind Light as they discuss his introduction to the new Virago Modern Classic edition of Anna Seghers’ brilliant novel Transit, and how its depiction of people caught in the Second World War reminded him of Ukrainians caught in the complex British visa system. He argues about whether Transit is a love story or not, challenges himself to read books he thinks he’ll hate (and falls for them completely) and remembers as a young man how reading feminist novels taught him to listen.Stuart’s recommendations:On the nightstand: Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh and Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth HardwickOn my mind: Post War Modern art exhibition at the BarbicanOn the shelf: Gorilla My Love, Toni Cade BabaraOn the pedestal: Marguerite Duras  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How can men approach their role as feminist allies? Lucy Scholes meets Stuart Evers, award-winning author of four books including Your Father Sends His Love and The Blind Light as they discuss his introduction to the new Virago Modern Classic edition of Anna Seghers’ brilliant novel Transit, and how its depiction of people caught in the Second World War reminded him of Ukrainians caught in the complex British visa system. He argues about whether Transit is a love story or not, challenges himself to read books he thinks he’ll hate (and falls for them completely) and remembers as a young man how reading feminist novels taught him to listen.Stuart’s recommendations:On the nightstand: Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh and Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth HardwickOn my mind: Post War Modern art exhibition at the BarbicanOn the shelf: Gorilla My Love, Toni Cade BabaraOn the pedestal: Marguerite Duras Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

OurShelves: Listening with Stuart Evers

Katie Hickman

 What does it take for a woman to migrate thousands of miles across prairies and mountains? Join Katie Hickman, author of Brave Hearted and She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen as she talks with Lucy Scholes about the unique voices of the women who made the Wild West, the strength of oral storytelling and the damage that was done to abortion rights in the USA by religious organisations. From the Americas to Indonesia, the discovery of precious materials has meant a death sentence for indigenous tribes and they discuss the impact of mining on people’s lives and the women who fought to make them better. Katie’s recommendations:On the nightstand: Dear Life by Alice Munro and One Thousand and One Nights retold by Hanan Al-Shaykh. On your mind: Things Fell Apart: strange tales from the culture wars by Jon Ronson (BBC) On the shelf: Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver On the pedestal: Mama Yosepha Alonmang. Now in her eighties, this remarkable woman is an Amungme (West Papua) Tribal Leader who has been fighting all her life against environmental destruction of her Tribal lands from mining. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What does it take for a woman to migrate thousands of miles across prairies and mountains? Join Katie Hickman, author of Brave Hearted and She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen as she talks with Lucy Scholes about the unique voices of the women who made the Wild West, the strength of oral storytelling and the damage that was done to abortion rights in the USA by religious organisations. From the Americas to Indonesia, the discovery of precious materials has meant a death sentence for indigenous tribes and they discuss the impact of mining on people’s lives and the women who fought to make them better. Katie’s recommendations:On the nightstand: Dear Life by Alice Munro and One Thousand and One Nights retold by Hanan Al-Shaykh. On your mind: Things Fell Apart: strange tales from the culture wars by Jon Ronson (BBC) On the shelf: Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver On the pedestal: Mama Yosepha Alonmang. Now in her eighties, this remarkable woman is an Amungme (West Papua) Tribal Leader who has been fighting all her life against environmental destruction of her Tribal lands from mining. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

OurShelves: Voice with Katie Hickman

Kate Maxwell

What happens if you don’t fall in love with your baby at first sight? Join Kate Maxwell and Lucy Scholes as they challenge silent taboos about motherhood, from Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter to Kate’s first novel Hush, about a woman who struggles with her decision to have a child on her own.Kate’s recommendations:On the nightstand: What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt and The Bread the Devil Knead, Lisa Allen-AgostiniOn your mind: WeCrashed, Apple TV seriesOn the shelf: Matrix, Lauren GroffOn the pedestal: Josie Naughton, Choose Love co-founder and CEO Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What happens if you don’t fall in love with your baby at first sight? Join Kate Maxwell and Lucy Scholes as they challenge silent taboos about motherhood, from Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter to Kate’s first novel Hush, about a woman who struggles with her decision to have a child on her own.Kate’s recommendations:On the nightstand: What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt and The Bread the Devil Knead, Lisa Allen-AgostiniOn your mind: WeCrashed, Apple TV seriesOn the shelf: Matrix, Lauren GroffOn the pedestal: Josie Naughton, Choose Love co-founder and CEO Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

OurShelves: Taboos with Kate Maxwell

Ourshelves is a place where writers from the legendary feminist publishing house Virago will talk about their cultural worlds. Host Lucy Scholes will be diving into writers’ bookshelves, record collections and recollections to discover what inspires them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ourshelves is a place where writers from the legendary feminist publishing house Virago will talk about their cultural worlds. Host Lucy Scholes will be diving into writers’ bookshelves, record collections and recollections to discover what inspires them. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Ourshelves

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.

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 <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Virago Reading Resolutions

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 KorneliussenThree Women by Lisa TaddeoLess by Andrew Sean GreerHeartburn by Nora EphronHouse of Glass by Susan FletcherGirl by Edna O'BrienA View of the Harbour by Elizabeth TaylorThe Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read by Philippa PerryLet us know what you are reading this summer on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fill your August with books with this list of reading recommendations from members of the Virago team.Books discussed in this episode:<a href="https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/niviaq-korneliussen/crimson/9780349010540/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Crimson</a> by Niviaq Korneliussen<a href="https://amzn.to/2MgiY5V" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Three Women</a> by Lisa Taddeo<a href="https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/andrew-sean-greer/less/9780349143606/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Less</a> by Andrew Sean Greer<a href="https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/nora-ephron/heartburn/9780349010359/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Heartburn</a> by Nora Ephron<a href="https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/susan-fletcher/house-of-glass/9780349007663/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">House of Glass</a> by Susan Fletcher<a href="https://amzn.to/2TnAfLv" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Girl</a> by Edna O'Brien<a href="https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/elizabeth-taylor/a-view-of-the-harbour/9781844083220/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">A View of the Harbour</a> by Elizabeth Taylor<a href="https://amzn.to/2YJR4Gj" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read</a> by Philippa PerryLet us know what you are reading this summer on <a href="https://twitter.com/ViragoBooks" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/viragopress/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://business.facebook.com/ViragoPress/?business_id=873802706096561" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Summer Reading Recommendations from the Virago team

Linda Grant

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 shortlisted for the 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction.About A Stranger City:When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms a sense that in London a person can become invisible once outside their community - and that assumes they even have a community. A policeman, a documentary film-maker and an Irish nurse named Chrissie all respond to the death of the unknown woman in their own ways. London is a place of random meetings, shifting relationships - and some, like Chrissie intersect with many. The film-maker and the policeman meanwhile have safe homes with wives - or do they? An immigrant family speaks their own language only privately; they have managed to integrate - or have they? The wonderful Linda Grant weaves a tale around ideas of home; how London can be a place of exile or expulsion, how home can be a physical place or an idea. How all our lives intersect and how coincidence or the randomness of birth place can decide how we live and with whom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 shortlisted for the 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction.About A Stranger City:When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms a sense that in London a person can become invisible once outside their community - and that assumes they even have a community. A policeman, a documentary film-maker and an Irish nurse named Chrissie all respond to the death of the unknown woman in their own ways. London is a place of random meetings, shifting relationships - and some, like Chrissie intersect with many. The film-maker and the policeman meanwhile have safe homes with wives - or do they? An immigrant family speaks their own language only privately; they have managed to integrate - or have they? The wonderful Linda Grant weaves a tale around ideas of home; how London can be a place of exile or expulsion, how home can be a physical place or an idea. How all our lives intersect and how coincidence or the randomness of birth place can decide how we live and with whom. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

A Stranger City with Linda Grant

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 Barry, who in 1783 left London a high-class courtesan and arrived in India as Mrs William Hickey, a married 'lady'; Poll Puff who sold her apple puffs for 'upwards of thirty years, growing grey in the service'; Mrs Hudson who in 1617 was refused as a trader in indigo by the East Indian Company, and instead turned a fine penny in cloth; Julia Inglis, a survivor of the siege of Lucknow; Amelia Horne, who witnessed the death of her entire family during the Cawnpore massacres of 1857; and Flora Annie Steel, novelist and a pioneer in the struggle to bring education to purdah women. For some it was painful exile, but for many it was exhilarating. Through diaries, letters and memoirs (many still in manuscript form), this exciting book reveals the extraordinary life and times of hundreds of women who made their way across the sea and changed history.Find out more: https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/katie-hickman/she-merchants-buccaneers-and-gentlewomen/9780349008264/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Barry, who in 1783 left London a high-class courtesan and arrived in India as Mrs William Hickey, a married 'lady'; Poll Puff who sold her apple puffs for 'upwards of thirty years, growing grey in the service'; Mrs Hudson who in 1617 was refused as a trader in indigo by the East Indian Company, and instead turned a fine penny in cloth; Julia Inglis, a survivor of the siege of Lucknow; Amelia Horne, who witnessed the death of her entire family during the Cawnpore massacres of 1857; and Flora Annie Steel, novelist and a pioneer in the struggle to bring education to purdah women. For some it was painful exile, but for many it was exhilarating. Through diaries, letters and memoirs (many still in manuscript form), this exciting book reveals the extraordinary life and times of hundreds of women who made their way across the sea and changed history.Find out more: <a href="https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/katie-hickman/she-merchants-buccaneers-and-gentlewomen/9780349008264/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/katie-hickman/she-merchants-buccaneers-and-gentlewomen/9780349008264/</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Katie Hickman: She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen

Julia Bueno

In this episode Julia Bueno and Sarah Savitt discuss miscarriage, women's health and Julia's book The Brink of Being: Talking about Miscarriage.A captivating mixture of memoir, stories from the consulting room, history and science, The Brink of Being is a much-needed, comprehensive look at the common yet still taboo experience of miscarriage.'A much needed book on this difficult and often unspoken loss, that of early pregnancy ... both illuminating and consoling.' Julia Samuel, author of Grief WorksIt estimated that one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage and yet it persists as taboo. In The Brink of Being, a groundbreaking and essential book, psychotherapist Julia Bueno encourages us to talk about, think more, and reflect upon this often misunderstood, and little discussed event. Drawing on her personal experience of miscarriage, stories from her consulting room, and interviews with medical professionals and researchers, Bueno provides history, context and consolation for anyone who has been through pregnancy loss, or wants to know how to help someone who has. Bueno also investigates miscarriage in terms of how we respond to women's bodies and reproductive health, our attitudes to birth and death, and how we can - and should - encourage more curiosity and candid conversations, in order to better support the many affected by this loss.Books recommended in this podcast: Miscarriage: What every Woman needs to know by Professor Lesley ReganComing to Term: Uncovering the Truth About Miscarriage by John CohenThe Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel LevyThe World's Two Smallest Humans by Julia CopusGiving Up the Ghost: A Memoir by Hilary MantelWhat Mothers Do and How Mothers Love by Naomi StadlandFor more from Julia visit her website: http://www.juliabueno.co.uk/ or follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JBueno_UKCP and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julia_bueno_therapist/?hl=enTo find out more about the Miscarriage Association here: https://www.miscarriageassociation.org.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjeKFr4D94wIVCbTtCh3TvA94EAAYASAAEgKwpfD_BwE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Julia Bueno and Sarah Savitt discuss miscarriage, women's health and Julia's book The Brink of Being: Talking about Miscarriage.A captivating mixture of memoir, stories from the consulting room, history and science, The Brink of Being is a much-needed, comprehensive look at the common yet still taboo experience of miscarriage.'A much needed book on this difficult and often unspoken loss, that of early pregnancy ... both illuminating and consoling.' Julia Samuel, author of Grief WorksIt estimated that one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage and yet it persists as taboo. In The Brink of Being, a groundbreaking and essential book, psychotherapist Julia Bueno encourages us to talk about, think more, and reflect upon this often misunderstood, and little discussed event. Drawing on her personal experience of miscarriage, stories from her consulting room, and interviews with medical professionals and researchers, Bueno provides history, context and consolation for anyone who has been through pregnancy loss, or wants to know how to help someone who has. Bueno also investigates miscarriage in terms of how we respond to women's bodies and reproductive health, our attitudes to birth and death, and how we can - and should - encourage more curiosity and candid conversations, in order to better support the many affected by this loss.Books recommended in this podcast: Miscarriage: What every Woman needs to know by Professor Lesley ReganComing to Term: Uncovering the Truth About Miscarriage by John CohenThe Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel LevyThe World's Two Smallest Humans by Julia CopusGiving Up the Ghost: A Memoir by Hilary MantelWhat Mothers Do and How Mothers Love by Naomi StadlandFor more from Julia visit her website: <a href="http://www.juliabueno.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.juliabueno.co.uk/</a> or follow her on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/JBueno_UKCP" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/JBueno_UKCP</a> and Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/julia_bueno_therapist/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/julia_bueno_therapist/?hl=en</a>To find out more about the Miscarriage Association here: <a href="https://www.miscarriageassociation.org.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjeKFr4D94wIVCbTtCh3TvA94EAAYASAAEgKwpfD_BwE" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.miscarriageassociation.org.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjeKFr4D94wIVCbTtCh3TvA94EAAYASAAEgKwpfD_BwE</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

The Brink of Being by Julia Bueno

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 Virago blog: https://www.virago.co.uk/five-unsung-heroines-by-sonia-purnell/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Virago blog: <a href="https://www.virago.co.uk/five-unsung-heroines-by-sonia-purnell/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.virago.co.uk/five-unsung-heroines-by-sonia-purnell/</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

A Woman of No Importance

Join us as we celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month!This month Virago editor, Rose Tomaszewska, is joined by Eleanor Crewes, author of The Times I Knew I Was Gay. Tune in for a wonderful discussion around their favourite books by queer authors or that deal with queer themes, including Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Jackson, Sarah Waters and more... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us as we celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month!This month Virago editor, Rose Tomaszewska, is joined by Eleanor Crewes, author of The Times I Knew I Was Gay. Tune in for a wonderful discussion around their favourite books by queer authors or that deal with queer themes, including Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Jackson, Sarah Waters and more... Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Virago Celebrates LGBTQ+ History Month

Lennie Goodings

In this episode of the Virago podcast editor Ailah Ahmed talks to Lennie Goodings about her book A Bite of the Apple - part memoir, part history of Virago Press and part thoughts on more than forty years of feminist publishing.Tune-in for Lennie Goodings, stay for the stories about Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood and a life in publishing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the Virago podcast editor Ailah Ahmed talks to Lennie Goodings about her book A Bite of the Apple - part memoir, part history of Virago Press and part thoughts on more than forty years of feminist publishing.Tune-in for Lennie Goodings, stay for the stories about Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood and a life in publishing. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Take a Bite of the Apple with Lennie Goodings

Get inspired for 2020 with some reading recommendations from the Virago team.A few members of the Virago team got together to discuss our reading recommendations and resolutions for the new decade! With titles like Big Friendship, The Street and How Much of These Hills is Gold, among others, our TBR stacks are growing ever taller. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Get inspired for 2020 with some reading recommendations from the Virago team.A few members of the Virago team got together to discuss our reading recommendations and resolutions for the new decade! With titles like Big Friendship, The Street and How Much of These Hills is Gold, among others, our TBR stacks are growing ever taller. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Virago's 2020 Reading Recommendations

Sandi Toksvig

Take a ride atop the Number 12 bus with national treasure, Sandi Toksvig.In this episode Chair of Virago Press Lennie Goodings chats with the one and only Sandi Toksvig about her long-awaited memoir, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus. Well known for her television and radio work as a broadcaster, writer, activist and comic on stage, screen and radio, Sandi Toksvig also writes for theatre and television: her film The Man starred Stephen Fry and Zoe Wanamaker and her play Bully Boy starring Anthony Andrews opened the St James Theatre in 2012. In 2016 Sandi took over as chair on QI and in 2017 she started presenting The Great British Bake Off.Between the Stops is A funny and moving trip through memories, musings and the many delights on the Number 12 route, Between the Stops is also an inspiration to us all to get off our phones, look up and to talk to each other because as Sandi says: 'some of the greatest trips lie on our own doorstep'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Take a ride atop the Number 12 bus with national treasure, Sandi Toksvig.In this episode Chair of Virago Press Lennie Goodings chats with the one and only Sandi Toksvig about her long-awaited memoir, <a href="https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/sandi-toksvig/between-the-stops/9780349006376/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus</a>. Well known for her television and radio work as a broadcaster, writer, activist and comic on stage, screen and radio, Sandi Toksvig also writes for theatre and television: her film The Man starred Stephen Fry and Zoe Wanamaker and her play Bully Boy starring Anthony Andrews opened the St James Theatre in 2012. In 2016 Sandi took over as chair on QI and in 2017 she started presenting The Great British Bake Off.Between the Stops is A funny and moving trip through memories, musings and the many delights on the Number 12 route, Between the Stops is also an inspiration to us all to get off our phones, look up and to talk to each other because as Sandi says: 'some of the greatest trips lie on our own doorstep'. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Between the Stops with Sandi Toksvig

Clare Clark

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 London with her husband and two children. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 London with her husband and two children. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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 about gender, non-conforming, bodies and feminism.This episode was recorded live and includes an audience Q&amp;A at the end. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 about gender, non-conforming, bodies and feminism.This episode was recorded live and includes an audience Q&amp;A at the end. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Can We All Be Feminists? Live Podcast

Susan Fletcher

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.

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 <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Deborah Frances-White

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 boundaries of comedy and politics, and why comedy is so important to feminism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 boundaries of comedy and politics, and why comedy is so important to feminism. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Lara Thompson

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 point in the episode due to building work happening outside!] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 point in the episode due to building work happening outside!] Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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