The Book Trunk

Virago Modern Classics

  • Virago Ventures

    Viragos  are addictive. I’m talking (mainly) about the old green-spined VMCs with reproductions of paintings on the front covers. They are so alluring I cannot resist them, and wherever I go I end up scouring second-hand book stores and charity… Continue reading

  • The Land of Green Ginger

    Another Virago for LibrayThing’s All Virago All Augustchallenge. And I think this one will do nicely for the What’s in a Name challenge over at The Worm Hole – it’s my entry for a book with the letters ‘ing’ in… Continue reading

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God

    There I was, sitting on the floor in the backroom of the Oxfam shop, sorting and pricing books, when I came across a well-thumbed copy of Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. I’d never come across the… Continue reading

  • The Provincial Lady in a Floral Cover

    I picked this up in the Oxfam shop (again), but I think it looks like abook on needlework, or a notebook,or drawliners, or writing paper. I started reading EM Delafield’s The Diary of a Provincial Lady online at Project Gutenberg… Continue reading