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

    This “classically plotted British mystery” by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Blue Flower is “leavened by a wicked sense of rapier-like humor” (The New York Times Book Review).  In The Golden Child, Penelope FitzGerald combines a ...

  • Offshore

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    The eccentric residents of a houseboat community along the Thames in London float between loneliness and connection in this Booker Prize"winning novel.On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily l...

  • Innocence

    “A delectable comedy of manners” set in 1950s Florence, by the Man Booker Prize"winning author of The Bookshop (The Boston Globe).   It’s 1955, and Italy is still struggling a decade after the end of World War II. So are the Ridolfis, a ...

  • 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

    A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER in Fiction. Booker Prize"winning novelist Fitzgerald's crowning literary work centers on the 18th-century German poet and philosopher Novalis and his love for the simple Sophie.The Blue Flower is set in t...

  • 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 Booker Prize-winning author’s final short story collection “shows her at the top of her form…exquisite” -- with an introduction by A.S. Byatt (The Guardian, UK). Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the United Kingdom’s most highly-regarded c...

  • 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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