Author: Penelope Fitzgerald

Florence Green erwirbt in Hardborough, einem verschlafenen Dorf an der Küste Ostenglands, das Old House als zukünftiges Domizil für ihre Buchhandlung. Dass das Gebäude anscheinend von einem Poltergei …

Auf den Hausbooten in Battersea am Ufer der Themse hat sich eine bunte Truppe zusammengefunden. Gemeinsam genießt man das freie Leben auf dem Wasser, gemeinsam kämpft man gegen undichte Boote und chr …

Frühlingsanfang in Moskau, 1913. Nelly Reid, treusorgende Ehefrau und liebevolle Mutter dreier Kinder, verlässt ihren Mann Frank völlig unerwartet und kehrt nach England zurück, die Kinder bleiben be …

Cambridge 1912: Ein harmloser Fahrradunfall bringt die wohlgeordnete Welt des jungen Wissenschaftlers Fred durcheinander. Er verliebt sich in eine unbekannte junge Frau – und das lässt sich mit den G …

»Was ich gesucht, habe ich gefunden, / Was ich fand, das fand auch mich. « Friedrich von Hardenberg, besser bekannt als Novalis, ist 22, als er Sophie von Kühn erstmals trifft – eine Viertelstunde, d …

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEEThe previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer – full of wit, feeling and illumination.Penelope Fitzgerald was a prolific letter writer. She …

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 …

From the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Offshore’ and ‘Innocence’ comes this unusual romance between the poet Novalis and his fiancee Sophie.Set in Germany at the very end of the eighteenth century, …

From the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Offshore’, ‘The Blue Flower’ and ‘Innocence’, this is a funny, touching, authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz.The human voices of Pe …

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEFEATURED ON BBC’S BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUBPenelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thame …

From the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Offshore’, ‘The Blue Flower’ and ‘Innocence’ comes this Booker Prize-shortlisted story of books and busybodies in East Anglia.This, Penelope Fitzgerald’s seco …

Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Offshore’ and ‘The Blue Flower’, turns her attention to the story of her remarkable family.When I was very young I took my uncles for granted, …

Penelope Fitzgerald’s fascinating portrait of the tragic poet and her life at the heart of the Bloomsbury set.Thomas Hardy hailed her as ‘far and away the best living woman poet’; the formidable Char …

A fascinating collection of letters from the great English novelist – and prolific correspondent – Penelope Fitzgerald Acclaimed for her exquisitely elegant novels – including the Booker Prize-winnin …

From the Booker Prize-wining author of ‘Offshore’ and ‘the Blue Flower’ – this Booker Prize-shortlisted novel centres on Cambridge Fellow Fred Fairly’s search for a rational riposte to love.In 1912 F …

From the Booker Prize-winner of ‘Offshore’ comes this entertaining tale of a chaotic stage school and its singular headmistress. With a new introduction by Simon Callow.It is the 1960s, in London’s W …

A collection of Penelope Fitzgerald’s short stories.Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most highly-regarded writers on the English literary scene. Apart from Iris Murdoch, no other writer has been sh …

The Golden Child, Penelope Fitzgerald’s first work of fiction, is a classically plotted British mystery centred around the arrival of the ‘Golden Child’ at a London museum.Far be it for the hapless W …

Stunning modern new cover reissue of one of Penelope Fitzgerald’s best-loved novels Innocence is set in the 1950s, when Italy was picking up the pieces after the war. Chiara Ridolfi is the guileless …

Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Offshore’ and ‘The Blue Flower’, turns her attention to the remarkable life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.’I mean by a pictu …

‘Poignant and inspiring’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ‘The World My Wilderness . . . had a powerful effect on me as a young reader’ HERMIONE LEE, GUARDIAN ‘An elegiac, evocative depiction of the aftermath of the …

“A delectable comedy of manners” set in 1950s Florence, by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Bookshop (The Boston Globe).   It’s 1955, and Italy is still struggl …

A British radio station struggles through the London blitz, in a “wonderful” novel of World War II England (A.S. Byatt), by a veteran of the BBC.   The nation is listening. It’ …

A London theater school resists the cultural shifts of the 1960s in this novel by the Booker Prize-winning author—with an introduction by Simon Callow.It is the 1960s, and London’s West E …

The Booker Prize-winning author’s final short story collection “shows her at the top of her form…exquisite”—with an introduction by A.S. Byatt (The Guardian, UK). Penel …

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize: A novel of two “wonderful characters” who meet by accident in Edwardian England, and fall inconveniently in love (The Washington Post).   In 1912, r …

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER in Fiction. Booker Prize-winning novelist Fitzgerald’s crowning literary work centers on the 18th-century German poet and philosopher Novalis and his love …

National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Bookshop is "a marvelously piercing fiction" (Times Literary Supplement), short-listed for the Booker Prize.With …

Man Booker Prize Finalist: This “marvelous novel” about an abandoned husband, set in Moscow a century ago, is “bristling with wry comedy” (Newsday). March 1913. Moscow is stir …

This “classically plotted British mystery” by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Blue Flower is “leavened by a wicked sense of rapier-like humor” (The New York Times Book …

The eccentric residents of a houseboat community along the Thames in London float between loneliness and connection in this Booker Prize-winning novel.On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed ba …

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‘Tender and elegant’ Guardian’Unlike anything else in modern English literature’ D.J. Taylor, Spectator A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church …

Florence decide abrir una pequeña librería, que será la primera del pueblo. Adquiere así un edificio que lleva años abandonado, comido por la humedad y que incluso tiene su propio y caprichoso polter …

La joven Chiara Ridolfi acaba de salir del colegio inglés en el que ha pasado su infancia. Al llegar a Florencia, donde viven su padre y su tía, descendientes de una antigua familia de nobles italian …

Cuando Friedrich von Hardenberg, quien más tarde tomaría el nombre de Novalis, le habla de la flor azul a su querida Sophie, una niña de doce años de la que se enamora en un primer encuentro, lo hace …

Per fi arriba en català una de les novel·les que millor ha retratat la passió per la literatura i un dels títols més llegits del nostre catàleg. Finalista del Booker Prize, ‘La llibreria’ és una deli …

Fred Fairly, un brillante joven, tiene ante sí un prometedor futuro como profesor de Ciencias en Cambridge, siempre y cuando respete una de las normas ancestrales del college al que pertenece. El St. …

Corre el mes de marzo de 1913 y la convulsa ciudad de Moscú se prepara para la llegada de la primavera. En el ambiente se percibe una transformación dramática, pero en el número 22 de la calle Lipka, …

Londres, en pleno Blitz, vive en un estado de amenaza permanente;pero la BBC, la principal fuente de noticias del país, sigue funcionando gracias a periodistas comprometidos que no dudan en manteners …

Basada en las propias vivencias de la autora como profesora de niños actores en la escuela de teatro Italia Conti de Londres, Penelope Fitzgerald narra la historia de un elenco de personajes inolvida …

«Portem la nostra selva allà on anem». La jove Barbary Deniston ha passat una infantesa amb la seva mare en l'entorn salvatge del sud de França durant la Segona Guerra Mundial, gaudint d' …

O livro que deu origem ao filme estrelado por Emily Mortimer, de A ilha do medo, e Patricia Clarkson, de House of cards. Florence Green, uma viúva de meia-idade, decide abrir uma livraria em uma pequ …

Penelope Fitzgerald compone una comedia exquisita e incalificable, mezcla de misterio clásico, novela histórica y sátira adictiva. Un museo londinense expone por primera vez los tesoros de Garamantia …