Penelope Fitzgerald's fascinating porttrait 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 private life, to all appearances, she was a dutiful daughter living at home with a monster of an old mother. The proprieties had to be observed and no one must know that the Mews had no money, that two siblings were insane and that Charlotte was a secret lesbian, living a life of self-inflicted frustration. Despite literary success and a passionate, enchanting personality, eventually the conflicts within her drove her to despair, and she killed herself by swallowing household disinfectant. In this unexpectedly gripping portrait, Penelope Fitzgerald brings all her novelist's skills into play, giving us what Victoria Glendinning calls a 'tantalising, touching story!an entire life's emotional history in a short space'.

Charlotte Mew and her friends

Biographies & Memoirs

Fitzgerald, Penelope

Community & Culture

Collins

Offshore

Literature & Fiction

Sergeant Cribb finds himself investigating a ring promoting the illegal sport of bare-knuckle boxing. So Cribb sends Constable Jago, the police boxing champion, to the gang's secret training centre to see what's going on.

At Freddie's

British & Irish

Wm. Collins Sons & Co.

Human Voices

A novel, set in Italy after World War II, about the problems and difficulties of trying to make other people happy. Originally published in 1986. From the author of THE GOLDEN CHILD, THE BEGINNING OF SPRING, THE GATE OF ANGELS and THE BLUE FLOWER.

Innocence

Set in Moscow in 1913, this novel concerns Frank Reid, whose wife suddenly leaves him without explanation to return to London. The author goes on to depict the Reid household, the expatriate community, Frank's colleagues, friends and children and the Russians with whom he comes into contact. This is set against the background of the life of the city itself, hardly aware of the upheaval about to break upon it. The author has also written "Innocence" and "Offshore".

The beginning of spring

The gate of angels

Literary

Fitzgerald's final novel is about the 18th century German romantic poet and philosopher Novalis. Regarded by many as her finest work and named by The Observer as one of the 10 best historical novels. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

The Blue Flower

Contemporary

HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited

Paperback. Pub Date :2010-05-06 Pages: 208 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK 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 for enemy bombers. and in the BBC - as elsewhere - some had to fail and some had to die . It does not pretend to be an accurate history of Broadcasting House in those years. but 'one is left with the sensation'. as William Boyd said. reviewing it in the 'London Magazine'. 'that this is what it was really like '

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Flamingo

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Charlotte Mew and her friends

Offshore

At Freddie's

Human Voices

Innocence

The beginning of spring

The gate of angels

The Blue Flower

Human Voices

At Freddie's