Language and Litterature

Source Code describes with unprecedented candour Bill Gates' life from his childhood in Seattle to dropping out of Harvard aged 20 in 1975. Shortly afterwards he wrote, with Paul Allen, the programme which became the foundation of Microsoft and eventually for the entire software industry, changing the way the world works and lives.

Gates writes about the centrality of family t

The groundbreaking, intimate and inspiring memoir from Pope Francis.

Books of the Year 2025: The Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Financial Times, New Statesman

'Remarkable' Guardian

'Elegant and joyful' Financial Times

Pope Francis originally intended this exceptional book to appear only after his death, but the

The bestselling cult classic memoir, now a BookTok favourite, reissued as part of the new Virago Modern Classic 'Green Spines' design.

A collection of stories and essays from Cixin Liu, New York Times bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem Trilogy

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values

"[A] bracing memoir and manifesto." The New York Times

The 1,000-square-mile Chornobyl Exclusion Zone is, for many, a symbol of total disaster: a reminder of shattered ideals and lost lives, now a toxic, dangerous no-man's-land. For Markiyan Kamysh, it became a site of pilgrimage. He and dozens like him call themselves 'stalkers': wild adventurers who sneak past border patrols to spend days getting lost in this apocalyptic environment of dense swampla

A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor Jozsef Debreczeni

When Jozsef Debreczeni arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of the 'lucky' ones, he was sent to the 'right', which led to twelve horrifying months of inc