Blogs in April 2020

At Freddie’s 6th April 2020

From the Booker Prize-winner of ‘Offshore’ comes this entertaining tale of a chaotic stage school and its singular headmistress. It is the 1960s, in London’s West End, and Freddie is the formidable proprietress of the Temple Stage School. Of...

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Human Voices 6th October 2019

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...

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Offshore 1st January 1970

Offshore possesses perfect, very odd pitch. In just over 130 pages of the wittiest and most melancholy prose, Penelope Fitzgerald illuminates the lives of “creatures neither of firm land nor water”–a group of barge-dwellers in London’s Battersea Reach, circa...

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The Gate of Angels 1st January 1970

Set in Cambridge and London in 1912, The Gate of Angels is a love story and a novel of ideas. Fred, a rector’s son, has abandoned religion for observable truths, whereas the undereducated Daisy is a Christian for whom...

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The Bookshop 1st January 1970

Penelope Fitzgerald’s wonderful Booker-nominated novel. 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...

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