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Exciting Angela Thirkell News!

January 8, 2013 by Claire (The Captive Reader)

Mark your calendars, ladies and gentlemen: on November 21, 2013, it looks like Virago is going to be releasing Pomfret Towers by Angela Thirkell! It is already (316 days ahead of publication) showing available for preorder at various online bookstores (both the one intent on world domination and the one with free shipping). Pomfret Towers (which Laura just reviewed a few days ago) is one of my favourite books in the series but copies are very difficult to find at reasonable prices so this is really wonderful news. I found out when Hayley mentioned it in her review of Wild Strawberries and have been ecstatic ever since. Now I just can’t wait to see the cover design!

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Posted in Angela Thirkell, Virago Modern Classics | 18 Comments

18 Responses

on January 8, 2013 at 20:11 | Reply Audrey

I don’t know…I kind of like this cover!
I have a very ratty $2.50 (as marked) mass market paperback copy of PT, and a for a while iI think I could have sold it on Alibris or one of those sites for about $60. I wonder why this book was so elusive? It was the one that took me the longest, though I did eventually find another copy.

Maybe by November they’ll be on sale in the U.S.
- on January 9, 2013 at 13:51 | Reply Claire (The Captive Reader)
  
  I like this cover too but I would like it infinitely more if I could afford to buy it! At less than $15 CDN a copy, I am fully prepared to transfer my allegiances to the Virago edition, whatever the cover looks like (though, having seen what Virago did with the first two books, I am sure it will be beautiful).
on January 8, 2013 at 20:14 | Reply Audrey

Oh, my. I just had to come back and mention that someone is selling a new copy of my llittle paperback on Amazon for … $397!!!
- on January 9, 2013 at 13:52 | Reply Claire (The Captive Reader)
  
  Eek!!! This is clearly why a reprinting was necessary.
on January 9, 2013 at 04:42 | Reply Laura

Squeeeee! That’s exciting news!
- on January 9, 2013 at 13:52 | Reply Claire (The Captive Reader)
  
  I know! I was literally bouncing up and down last night when I found out.
on January 9, 2013 at 05:56 | Reply Eva

Your excitement is so adorable! I clearly need to get to High Rising, which I have on my book cases (was sent a review copy) now that I’ve finished Trollope’s Barchester books.
- on January 9, 2013 at 13:53 | Reply Claire (The Captive Reader)
  
  It is not often I am called adorable, so thank you, Eva. Do try High Rising – Laura, its heroine, is marvellous – but I think some of the later books are even better.
on January 9, 2013 at 07:05 | Reply Margaret W.

Good on you Virago!
- on January 9, 2013 at 13:55 | Reply Claire (The Captive Reader)
  
  With each Thirkell they publish, my feelings towards Virago grow warmer and warmer. I had never much liked them before but this is building up lots of goodwill!
on January 9, 2013 at 08:45 | Reply Elizabeth

Very exciting! This is one that is still missing from my collection.
- on January 9, 2013 at 13:55 | Reply Claire (The Captive Reader)
  
  And from mine!
on January 9, 2013 at 11:19 | Reply David Nolan (David73277)

Having enjoyed the 2012 reissue of “High Rising”, this is welcome news. By the way, I love your description of a certain retail behemoth as “the one intent on world domination”.
- on January 9, 2013 at 13:57 | Reply Claire (The Captive Reader)
  
  I am so happy to hear that you liked High Rising, David! I think this book is even better.
on January 9, 2013 at 12:40 | Reply Alex

Thirkell’s was a name I hardly knew at all, but a couple of weeks ago her book ‘Three Houses’ about her memories of her grandfather Edward Burne-Jones was serialised on the radio and I was captivated. I shall have to do a search of the Virago catalogue. Where should I start.
- on January 9, 2013 at 13:59 | Reply Claire (The Captive Reader)
  
  Yes, it is so nice that the reissues of three of her books (High Rising, Wild Strawberries, and Three Houses) and that radio programme are making her better known by today’s readers. As for where to start, High Rising is the first book in Thirkell’s Barsetshire series (followed by Wild Strawberries) so why not begin at the beginning?
on January 9, 2013 at 13:19 | Reply Desperate Reader

I read Laura’s review and then went to look for it online which is how I found the news, every bit as excited as you are
- on January 9, 2013 at 14:01 | Reply Claire (The Captive Reader)
  
  I am so happy you sleuthed a bit, Hayley! It really is wonderful news and, like you, I have my fingers crossed that this won’t be the only Thirkell title Virago is releasing this year.