Olivia Barber
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genteel, not particularly lucrative | Editorial Director, Virago Modern Classics
London, England
Joined April 2015
📢Some news, as they say... I'm completely thrilled to be joining the amazing team @ViragoBooks to champion the iconic Virago Modern Classics list!
"Olivia will be a confident, energetic champion for the VMCs as we look to the future of this iconic list" @ViragoBooks has appointed @oliviajbarber as editorial director of the Virago Modern Classics list. Read here:
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Discover the #DarkRomance collection from Daphne du Maurier 🖤🌙🌑🕯️🔦🥀🕰️ ⏾♟️🎱 Stunning new covers for four stone-cold classics: 🌺 Rebecca 🌊 Jamaica Inn 🗝️ The King's General 🌙 My Cousin Rachel Which cover is your favourite? Coming 13 March 2025 #DiscoverduMaurier
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Jealousy. Desire. Suspicion. Obsession ✨Introducing our stunning new look for Daphne du Maurier - meet the #DarkRomance collection! Prepare to fall in love with du Maurier all over again. . . @ViragoBooks #classics
Discover the #DarkRomance collection from Daphne du Maurier 🖤🌙🌑🕯️🔦🥀🕰️ ⏾♟️🎱 Stunning new covers for four stone-cold classics: 🌺 Rebecca 🌊 Jamaica Inn 🗝️ The King's General 🌙 My Cousin Rachel Which cover is your favourite? Coming 13 March 2025 #DiscoverduMaurier
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RT @ViragoBooks: ♣ The Stepdaughter ♣ Blackwood is back. In her darkly brilliant debut, a wicked stepmother is about to find her ideal pr…
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'The Fate of Mary Rose [walks] the reader through a dark alley in a choke collar' - a fascinating look at dark fiction and dark(er) life of the extraordinary Caroline Blackwood
‘The claustrophobia of houses and families threatens to dissolve identity. Yet which is worse – to be too close or too distant?’ Ange Mlinko on the novels of Lady Caroline Blackwood:
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RT @LRB: ‘The seven years she spent with Lowell transformed her from an occasional magazine writer to a committed litterateur, a vindicatio…
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So excited to send our new green spines into the world today! #ClassicswithBite
READ YOUR GREENS 🍏💚 👒🧤👗🌵🐉🍃🍀🐍🥑🥝 🔫🔋🦠📗♻️ Our ✨🍏 #ClassicsWithBite 🍏✨ are out today! Which one are you reading first? #ClassicsWithBite #ViragoModernClassics
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RT @ViragoBooks: ✨🍏 #ClassicsWithBite 🍏✨ One month to go... 23rd January 2025. #ViragoModernClassics P.S. Pre-order all ten books via t…
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OBSESSED with this cover for Nettie Jones' fierce, fearless, provocative lost classic
🫧 A DAZZLING LOST CLASSIC 🫧 Acquired by Toni Morrison, championed by Gayl Jones & almost forgotten for 40yrs, #FishTales is a fearless modern classic 🫧‘Candid, fast & alive’ Raven Leilani 🫧 ‘So full of life it practically vibrates in your hands’ Justin Torres 15 April 2025
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Not everyday that you get a double-page review for a rediscovered classic - thank you Megan Nolan @Telegraph for this brilliant review of our deliciously nasty book!🍐
thank you Megan Nolan, @calrevelycalder @Telegraph for this fantastic review of Caroline Blackwood's THE FATE OF MARY ROSE - out now with @ViragoBooks (after years out of print!) - they (rightly) call Caroline's writing 'splendid, dark, often very funny' 🔪🍏
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RT @J_Gorraez: My BOTY are THE FATE OF MARY ROSE by Caroline Blackwood (thank you @katyaellis_ ), love a nasty character. FISH SOUP by Marg…
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RT @ViragoBooks: The new book from the author of The Guilty Feminist, @DeborahFW 🎙️ 'If you have ever felt shut down, this book is a godse…
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RT @ViragoBooks: ✨🍏 Classics... with bite 🍏✨ Our new look Virago Modern Classics land 23rd January 2025. Who's excited?! 🙋♀️🙋🙋♂️ https…
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'An unsettling and, at times, almost unbearably creepy tale, with a genuinely shocking ending' - over the moon to see our @ViragoBooks 'dark gem' #TheFateofMaryRose here!
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This twisted little beauty is out in the world today - time to rediscover the dark genius of Caroline Blackwood #ViragoModernClassics🍐
#TheFateofMaryRose publishes today as a new Virago Modern Classic and we can't recommend it highly enough... ♣ 'I read it with wide eyes + unsavoury glee' Sunday Times ♣ 'Drips with classy darkness' Janice Hallett ♣ 'A dark masterpiece' Camilla Grudova
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