Tipping The Velvet'Intelligent, witty and stylish' Independent 'Everyone's appetites will be satisfied' Elle Magazine 'Waters is an author to cherish' Guardian Celebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represents an iconic moment in Virago's history, from the 1970s to today. Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl I knew it at once!