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.[...]

Penelope Fitzgerald's final masterpiece. Set in Germany at the very end of the eighteenth century, The Blue Flower is the story of the brilliant Fritz von Hardenberg, a graduate of the Universities of Jena, Leipzig and Wittenberg, learned in Dialectics and Mathematics, who later became the great rom[...]

This is the winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography 2014. "Brilliant and passionate ...a haunting tale of blighted hope, personal tragedy and rare, late fulfilment". (Observer). Penelope Fitzgerald published her first book aged sixty. She went on to become one of the greatest of [...]

Presents a fictionalized account of the relationship between the eighteenth-century German poet known as Novalis and his true love, Sophie[...]

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[...]

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 motl[...]

Short-listed for the Booker Prize
"Fitzgerald was the author of several slim, perfect novels. "The Blue Flower" and "The Beginning of Spring" both had me abuzz for days the first time I read them. She was curiously perfect."-- Teju Cole, author of "Open City"
"Writing so precise and liltin[...]

ONE OF THE "NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW S "10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A Best Book of the Year: "San Francisco Chronicl"e, "Seattle Times
"Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography
Penelope Fitzgerald, one of the most quietly brilliant novelists of the twentieth century, was a great Eng[...]

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. She began her writing career in 1975 at the age of fifty-nine, and over the next two decades she published three biographies, nine novels,[...]

"The anecdotes are wonderful. The Knox Brothers...provides a striking insight into the elusive nature of Fitzgerald's genius."
-New York Times.
Here is a biography whose eccentric genius perfectly matches that of its subjects. Penelope Fitzgerald tells the lives of four extraordinary English[...]

Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel set among the houseboat community of the Thames.