Clare Smith

I’ll be at Waterstones Canterbury this Thursday evening (6-8pm) signing books, eating Xmas pies and generally being Christmassy. Do pop along if you are in the vicinity 🎄@WaterstonesRose

Congratulations @SuzannahDunn! We’re delighted to see Levitation for Beginners on the @nerobookawards 2024 Fiction Shortlist 🎉

✨🍏 Classics... with bite 🍏✨ Our new look Virago Modern Classics land 23rd January 2025. Who's excited?! 🙋‍♀️🙋🙋‍♂️

.@ViragoBooks has won a "passionate" five-way auction for Natural Disaster by Lisa Owens 👇 #Echobox=1730884365" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thebookseller.com/rights/virago-…

Happiest paperback publication day to Sigrid Nunez for THE VULNERABLES! She's having a real moment: Pedro Almodovar's film THE ROOM NEXT DOOR is based on her previous novel WHAT ARE YOU GOING THROUGH. We feel very lucky to publish her @ViragoBooks .

@Soniavelton's The Nightingale’s Castle retells the terrifying story of Erzsébet Báthory, the 'Blood Countess'. For Hallowe'en, here's her Historia feature about the famous 17th-century Hungarian 'vampire': historiamag.com/vampire-or-vic…

How 'be kind' works out worst of all for women, @glosswitch's brilliantly witty and insightful new book #UnKind is available for pre-order now: geni.us/Unkind

There is no such thing as an ordinary love story... Two teenage sweethearts fall back into each other's lives 20 years later in ORDINARY LOVE, the achingly romantic story of reconnection and second chances coming soon from Marie Rutkoski: waterstones.com/book/ordinary-…

🎉 COVER REVEAL 🎉 We're so excited to share the cover for this unbearably beautiful novel. #OrdinaryLove by @MarieRutkoski is a tender love story about desire, friendship, mistakes and the possibility of second chances. COMING JUNE 2025 Pre-order: brnw.ch/21wNXSd

The blistering and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen. 'A witty and scathing look at what it means to be a refugee, an immigrant, and an American' - TIME Magazine

Just popping on to say that #TheFateOfMaryRose by #CarolineBlackwood is seven shades of fabulous! If dysfunctional families and a book filled with tension from the first page - this should absolutely be on your reading list. Thank you to @Lielco and @ViragoBooks for my copy.

@zoeannewest Levitation for Beginners! 🥰🥰

Always grateful for a slow train ride into London

Winner of The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2024 is Victoria Chang (@VChangPoet) for 'with my back to the world' (@CorsairBooks) Congratulations Victoria!

SCREAMS! Couldn't be more proud of @doctor_oxford and The Story of a Heart 🫶

congratulations @holliepoetry & @FleetReads!

When your friend buys one book and after reading it decides everyone in their social circle should have one too! Started today signing books in the back of a car! Lets keep this conversation going🤝

'One of the main reasons I wanted to write this book is because transplant is perhaps THE most remarkable way in which something good and positive and beautiful and miraculous can be snatched from the worst circumstances possible' #TheStoryofaHeart @doctor_oxford

Hilary Mantel always inspires. Great piece here by @katiewardwriter that I really needed this morning: theguardian.com/books/2024/sep…

✨ We're proud to announce that #Ghostroots by 'Pemi Aguda is a finalist in the fiction category for the National Book Awards in the US. Congrats 'Pemi! ✨ You can read an extract from #Ghostroots on the Virago website now: brnw.ch/21wNrPI

Happy National Poetry Day! This is Helena Bonham Carter reading 'I Worried' by Mary Oliver, with its wonderful message at the end...