Biography & Memoirs

Carmen is vigorously polishing one of our three telephones. I am just twenty-five, Canadian, new to Britain and in awe of this formidable woman but as there are only two of us in the office I feel emboldened to ask: Why did you start Virago? She looks up and without missing a beat, replies To change the world, darling. Thats why.

From the author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone ("The Queen of Greens" --The Washington Post)--a warm, bracingly honest memoir that also gives us an insider's look at the vegetarian movement.

From the author of the beloved bestseller The Dirty Life, this superb memoir chronicles the evolution of a farm, marriage, family, and her own personal identity with humor, insight, and candor (Publishers Weekly, starred review) detailing life on Essex Farma 500-acre farm that produces food for a community of 250 people.

Both a memoir and a call to action, this book is a gripping account of the authors quest to eradicate landmines from the face of the earth.

Visionary artist andNew York Timesbestselling author ofThe Wild UnknownKim Krans returns with a decadently illustrated and incredibly raw graphic memoir that chronicles her multi-layered search for truth and recovery from an eating disorder and infertility in the throes of a health and wellness-obsessed culture, touchin

My Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood's spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years. It is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful counterpoint between worldliness and holiness in Isherwood's own life.