Publisher's Synopsis
Celebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represents an iconic moment in Virago's history, from the 1970s to today. This boxed set is exclusive to Blackwell's
The set comprises:
Angela Carter's highly acclaimed polemic enlisting the Marquis de Sade in an argument about women's sexual freedom, The Sadeian Woman was first published in 1979.
A stunning collection of poems from Grace Nichols, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2021, The Fat Black Woman's Poems was first published in 1984.
A wonderfully lush, sensuous and bawdy novel set in the music halls of the late 19th century, Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters was first published in 1998.
A controversial and much-needed look at our highly sexualised culture, Living Dolls by Natasha Walter was first published in 2009.
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog, The Friend by Sigrid Nunez was first published in 2018.
Bio:
Together the authors of Virago’s Five Gold Reads have published over 70 works, with several of them international bestsellers. They have won awards including the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, the Stonewall Book Award, the National Book Award for Fiction, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, the Whiting Award, the Betty Trask Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Cheltenham Prize, the Guyana Poetry Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, and the Rome Prize in Literature; and they have been nominated for countless others, including the Man Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
