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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
Innocence by Penelope Fitzgerald
$22.95 AUD
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
$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
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
$24.95 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 yet ki ...Show more
Offshore, Human Voices and Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald; John Bayley (Introduction by)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Sixty-one when she published her first novel, Penelope Fitzgerald based many subsequent books on the experiences of a long and varied life. Offshore, which won the Booker Prize in 1979, explores her time living on a barge at Battersea Reach. Human Voices takes place in the BBC where she worked during ...Show more
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
$19.99 AUD
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 Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald; Andrew Miller (Introduction by)
$26.95 AUD
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 Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
$19.99 AUD
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
$22.99 AUD
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 Blue Flower by Candia (INT) Penelope; McWilliam Fitzgerald
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 brilliant, is seeking his father's permission to announce his engagement to his hear ...Show more