The Latest Breaking News from Carmen Callil

Beautiful, bruising and complex: what I’ve learned about female friendship

Ahead of her new Virago book on women’s friendships, our writer reflects on two pivotal friendships of her own, as well as some notable literary ones

The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2024

What links Blue Juice with Point Break? The Saturday quiz

From Kirkwood gaps to chicken nuggets, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The Guardian - UK · Feb 24, 2024

‘I didn’t think it was possible to be a novelist’: Julian Barnes on literature, loss – and his late friend Martin Amis

The Booker winning author talks about how his most recent work was inspired by Hilary Mantel, and the way the books world has changed since his debut was published more than 40 years ago

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2023

The week in audio: Where There’s A Will There’s a Wake; Origins; The Art of Longevity and more

Kathy Burke cackles as Dawn French plans her own demise. Elsewhere, Carmen Callil’s final interview, and farewell to a classic podcast one-off

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2022

Carmen Callil: Pioneering feminist publisher behind Virago Press

Her company served as a beacon for a generation of readers looking for books that were written by and for women

The Independent UK · Oct 29, 2022

Virago founder Carmen Callil remembered by her friend Rachel Cooke: ‘Of course she was difficult’

The Observer writer on the brilliant publisher, a larger-than-life character among whose many talents was an extraordinary capacity for friendship

The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2022

A Sultry Month changed how I viewed history. It is well that it has been reissued

Faber has blown the dust off Alethea Hayter’s groundbreaking biography of London’s 19th-century literati – not before time

The Guardian - UK · Oct 22, 2022

Who was Virago Press founder Dame Carmen Callil?

The dame devoted most of her life to amplifying women’s voices in publishing

Evening Standard · Oct 20, 2022

Virago founder Carmen Callil was a powerhouse who changed the publishing world for the better

The publisher and writer – who has died aged 84 – was a pioneering champion of female writers. Virago’s chair Lennie Goodings remembers her long-time colleague and friend

The Guardian - UK · Oct 18, 2022

Carmen Callil, pioneering champion of female writers, dies aged 84

Publisher who founded Virago Press began as a campaigning outsider who introduced UK readers to authors including Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood

The Guardian - UK · Oct 18, 2022