Penelope Fitzgerald

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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1978
  • Latest Book:
    January 2017
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Book List in Order: 12 titles

  • The Golden Child

    Penelope Fitzgerald's novel, The Golden Child, combines a deft comedy of manners with a classic mystery set in London's most refined institution -- the museum. When the glittering treasure of ancient Garamantia, the golden child, is delivered to the ...

  • Offshore

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    Penelope Fitzgerald''s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.On Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the temporarily lost and the patent...

  • Innocence

    Beautiful Chiara is the last of the Ridolfi, a Florentine family of long lineage and eccentric habits. She is smitten with Salvatore, a brilliant but penniless doctor, a rational man who wants nothing to do with romance. This is the story of how thes...

  • Beginning of Spring

    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...

  • The Gate of Angels

    Essential reading for the 100 million Americans currently using wireless phones, this thoroughly researched and documented cautionary work stands alongside of such classics as Silent Spring and The Coming Plague.

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  • The Blue Flower

    In eighteenth-century Germany, the impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the Romantic poet Novalis seeks his father's permission to wed his true philosophy -- a plain, simple child named Sophie. The attachment shocks his family ...

  • The Bookshop

    National Book Critics Circle Award�"winning author Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop is "a marvelously piercing fiction" (Times Literary Supplement), short-listed for the Booker Prize.With an Introduction by David Nicholls, international best-selli...

  • Human Voices

    When British listeners tuned in to the BBC's Nine O'Clock News in the middle of 1940, they had no idea what human dramas-and follies-were unfolding behind the scenes. Targeted by enemy bombers, the BBC had turned its concert hall into a dormitory for...

  • At Freddie's

    A London theater school resists the cultural shifts of the 1960s in this novel by the Booker Prize-winning author -- with an introduction by Simon Callow.It is the 1960s, and London’s West End theaters all rely on Freddie Wentworth, the formidable ...



  • The Means of Escape

    The last book and only collection of short stories by Penelope Fitzgerald fittingly showcases her at her wisest, her funniest, her best. Like her novels, these stories are "mordantly funny, morally astute . . . [as] they plumb the endless absurdities...

  • Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning of Spring

    After publishing her first novel in 1977 at the age of sixty-one, Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) went on to become one of the most remarkable and highly acclaimed English writers of the last century. Each of the three novels gathered here vividly...

  • The Knox Brothers

    • Award-Winning Books by Penelope Fitzgerald

    The Blue Flower
    1997 National Book Critics Circle Award -- National Book Critics Circle Award
    Offshore
    1979 Man Booker Prize -- Novel


    Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

    Penelope Fitzgerald has published 12 books.

    Penelope Fitzgerald does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Knox Brothers, was published in January 2017.

    The first book by Penelope Fitzgerald, The Golden Child, was published in August 1978.

    No. Penelope Fitzgerald does not write books in series.
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