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  • THE GOLDEN CHILD
    FITZGERALD, PENELOPE
    Far be it for the hapless Waring Smith, junior officer at a prominent London museum, to expect any kind of thanks for his work on the opening of the year's biggest exhibition - The Golden Child. But when he is nearly strangled to death by a shadowy assailant and packed off to Moscow to negotiate with a mysterious curator, he finds himself at the centre of a sinister web of cons...
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  • AT FREDDIE'S
    FITZGERALD, PENELOPE
    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 provenance, Freddie is a skirt-swathed enigma - a woman who by sheer force of char...
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  • INNOCENCE
    FITZGERALD, PENELOPE
    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 days. Only eighteen-year-old Chiara shows anything like vitality.Chiara has set ...
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  • THE BOOKSHOP
    FITZGERALD, PENELOPE
    In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.Hardborough becomes a battleground. Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done, and as a result, she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important, but natural and even supernatural forces too. Her fate will strike...
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  • THE BLUE FLOWER
    FITZGERALD, PENELOPE
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  • THE BOOKSHOP
    FITZGERALD, PENELOPE
    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 a kind heart, but that is not much use when it comes to the matter of self-preservation.'Hardborough becomes a battleground, as sma...
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  • OFFSHORE
    FITZGERALD, PENELOPE
    On Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the temporarily lost and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the tide of the Thames.There is good-natured Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by chance a receiver of stolen goods. And Richard, an ex-navy man whose boat, much like its owner, dominates the Reach. Then there is Nenna, an abandoned wife and mot...
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  • THE GATE OF ANGELS
    FITZGERALD, PENELOPE
    It is 1912, and at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate.Fred Fairly, a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set foot, lectures in physics. Science, he is certain, will explain everything.Until into Fred's orderly life come Daisy. Fred is smitten. Why have I met her? he wonde...
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  • HUMAN VOICES
    PENELOPE FITZGERALD
    From the Booker Prizewinning author of 'Offshore' and 'The Blue Flower'; 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 e...
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  • THE BEGINNING OF SPRING
    FITZGERALD, PENELOPE
    Penelope Fitzgerald novel·lista, poeta i assagista anglesa, guanyadora del Booker Prize el 1979 i que el diari “The Times” ha inclòs a la llista dels "50 millors escriptors britànics des de 1945". “The beginning of Spring” és probablement la seva obra mestra. Un història curta, que succeix en unes poques setmanes del 1913, però que amb una gran sensibilitat reflecteix moltes vi...
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