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

Literature & Fiction

Penelope Fitzgerald

Contemporary

Flamingo

The Knox Brothers

Religion & Spirituality

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The Harvill Press

Charlotte Mew: and Her Friends

Biographies & Memoirs

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Innocence

Offshore

1988 Flamingo trade paperback, 6th printing. Penelope Fitzgerald (The Blue Flower: A Novel). 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 kindly society.

Literary

Paperback. Pub Date :2004-12-06 Pages: 176 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK Beautiful reissue of this wonderful Fitzgerald backlist title. shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize.In 1912 Fred Fairly is a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus in Cambridge. where for centuries no female. not even a pussy cat. has been allowed to set foot (though the starlings couldnt altogether be regulated). Fred lectures in physics and the questionable nature of matter and worries about the universal problem known in Cambridge at the time as' the absurdity of the Mind-Body Relationship '. To Fred this is tormenting rather than absurd.The young woman beside him when he wakes up one evening in the Wrayburns' spare bedroom might help resolve it. but how can he tell if she is quite what she seems Fred is a scientist.To him the truth should be everything. and indeed he thinks it...

The Gate of Angels

Children's Books

Education & Reference

The 'Golden Child', Penelope Fitzgerald's first work of fiction, is a classically plotted British mystery, centred on the arrival of a new exhibit at a London museum. Whilst the exhibit lures thousands of spectators, it also becomes the focus for murder.

The Golden Child

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 shortlisted so many times for the Booker. Her last novel, 'The Blue Flower', was the book of its year, garnering extraordinary acclaim in Britain, America and Europe. This superb collection of stories, originally published in anthologies and newspapers, shows Penelope Fitzgerald at her very best. From the tale of a young boy in 17-century England who loses a precious keepsake and finds it frozen in a puddle of ice, to that of a group of buffoonish amateur Victorian painters on a trip to Brittany, these stories are characteristically wide ranging, enigmatic and very funny. They are each miniature studies of the endless absurdity of human behaviour.

The Means of Escape

Short Stories & Anthologies

'Offshore' is set in the 1960s and describes the relationships amongst a group of houseboat dwellers living on the Thames at Battersea Reach. The novel is part of a reissue programme for all of Fitzgerald's titles in Flamingo.

HarperCollins, Publishers

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