Collection: Fiction

As the war breaks out, the Rising family - on the surface so united, so serene - tries to hold down the secrets of the past.

Shirley Hazzard's award-winning beautiful and intelligent novel is reissued in Virago's New Look for the Modern Classics this Autumn. It won the USA Book Critics' Circle Award for Best Novel in 1980.

As a city girl, Jasmine Wyatt isn't at all sure what to think of inheriting a cottage in a small Somerset village. Even when she discovers the cottage has a bad reputation, Jasmine falls in love with it at first sight. It seems Blackthorn Cottage weaves a magic of its own.

An historical fantasy with bite. This debut novel from Naomi Novik is set in the Napoleonic period and layers history with imagination and fantasy by adding the Dragon Air Force to the battle for England.

Anchorwoman Sally Harrington is immersed in a murder investigation when a jet-setting millionaire turns up dead after their interview and his death is linked to an attack on one of her old acquaintances.

Behind the shining windows and rose-bedecked gardens of Summer Street, there are lots of secrets. There's the one that hard-working single mother Faye hides from her teenage daughter Amber. Then there is the one that 31 year-old Maggie hides from herself.

Summary: Jodi Picoult examines the unbreakable bond between mother and child, about a woman who takes justice into her own hands only to discover how very dangerous playing God can be and about the destructive, redemptive, terrifying power of love.