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At Freddie's by Penelope Fitzgerald
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 West End, and Freddie is the formidable proprietress of the Temple Stage School. Of unknown age and prove ...Show more
Charlotte Mew and Her Friends by Penelope Fitzgerald
19.99 AUD
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
Edward Burne-Jones by Penelope Fitzgerald
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than any li ...Show more
Innocence by Penelope Fitzgerald
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A new edition of the Booker Prize winner Penelope Fitzgerald's best-loved novel of romance in post-war Italy, with a new introduction by Julian Barnes. The Ridolfis are a Florentine family of long lineage and little money. It is 1955, and the family, like its decrepit villa and farm, has seen better day ...Show more
Matchbook Classics Box Set by J.g. Ballard; Lorna Sage; Jean-Dominque Bauby; Penelope Fitzgerald; Jonathan Franzen; Hilary Mantel; Alexander Masters; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Tim O'Brien; Annie Proulx
199.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Collected here in a stunning box set, these ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a beautifully redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. In the mid-twentieth century, the matchbox industry was booming. Com ...Show more
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
24.99 AUD
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
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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 | Reading Level: very good
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
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Ser.
Penelope Fitzgerald's wonderful Booker-nominated novel. This, Penelope Fitzgerald's second novel, was her first to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is set in a small East Anglian coastal town, where Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. 'She had ...Show more
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is a pre-read / used book. Excellent Condition. Penelope Fitzgerald's wonderful Booker-nominated novel. This, Penelope Fitzgerald's second novel, was her first to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is set in a small East Anglian coastal town, where Florence Green decides, against polite ...Show more
The Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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. While a new exhibit lures thousands of curious spectators, it also becomes the sinister focus in a web of intrigue and murder. The ...Show more