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A House of Air: Selected Writings by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Category: Essays
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE The previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer - full of wit, feeling and illumination. Penelope Fitzgerald was a prolific letter writer. She avoided the phone if she could, never even contemplated the possibility of going online. Her warmth, ...Show more
Charlotte Mew and Her Friends by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Category: Fiction
Penelope Fitzgerald's fascinating portrait of Bloomsbury's saddest poet. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was a poet with a formidable reputation who, as Virginia Woolf put it, was 'very good and interesting and unlike anyone else' and who wrote some of the best English poems of the twentieth century. In her p ...Show more
Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Ser.
A funny, touching, authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz. The human voices of Penelope Fitzgerald's novel are those of the BBC in the first years of the World War II, the time when the Concert Hall was turned into a dormitory for both sexes, the whole building became a target fo ...Show more
Innocence by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Category: Fiction
A delectable comedy of manners. "Boston Globe" The Ridolfi are a Florentine family of long lineage and little money. It is 1955, Italy is still struggling back after the war, and the family, like its decrepit villa and farm, has seen better days. Among the Ridolfi, only eighteen-year-old Chiara shows an ...Show more
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Category: Fiction
Winner of the Booker Prize On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the great river's tides. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they cling to one another in a motley ye ...Show more
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Category: Fiction
Winner of the Booker Prize On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the great river s tides. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they cling to one another in a motley yet ki ...Show more
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald; Andrew Miller (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction
From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore', 'The Blue Flower' and 'Innocence' comes this Booker Prize-shortlisted tale of a troubled Moscow printworks . Frank Reid had been born and brought up in Moscow. His father had emigrated there in the 1870s and started a print-works which, by 1913, had sh ...Show more
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Ser.
Set in Russia 1913, Frank Reid arrives home from work on a day just like any other to find that his wife has left him. How should he cope? This text is the story of how the family copes with this unexpected event, set against a turbulent political backdrop. Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most elegan ...Show more
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Category: Fiction
Pre-read / used. In good condition. Inscription on inside cover. Crease to spine. From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore' comes this unusual romance between the poet Novalis and his fiancee Sophie, newly introduced by Candia McWilliam. The year is 1794 and Fritz, passionate, idealistic and b ...Show more
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Category: Fiction | Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.
Penelope Fitzgerald's final masterpiece. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. The year is 1794 and Fritz, passionate, idealistic and brilli ...Show more