Fred lectures in physics and the questionable nature of matter and worries about the universal problem known in Cambridge at the time as' the absurdity of the Mind-Body Relationship '. Shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize. In 1912 fred fairly is a junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus in Cambridge.
And indeed he thinks it. Where for centuries no female. Paperback. Fourth Estate. But how can he tell if she is quite what she seems Fred is a scientist. To him the truth should be everything.
The Bookshop
By daring to enlarge her neighbors’ lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence’s warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Now a major motion picture starring emily mortimer, bill nighy, and patricia clarkson short-listed for the Booker Prize “A beautiful book, a perfect little gem.
Bbc kaleidoscope “A marvelously piercing fiction. Times literary supplement in 1959 florence green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop — the only bookshop — in the seaside town of Hardborough. Mariner Books.
The Blue Flower: A Novel
An extraordinary imagining. An astonishing book. Fritz seeks his father’s permission to wed his “heart's heart, ” his “spirit's guide”—a plain, simple child named Sophie von Kühn. Fitzgerald’s greatest triumph. New york times book reviewthe blue flower is set in the age of Goethe, in the small towns and great universities of late eighteenth-century Germany.
It is an attachment that shocks his family and friends.
The Beginning of Spring
Mariner Books. English painter frank reid returns from work one night to find that his wife has gone away; no one knows where or why, or whether she’ll ever come back. The blue flower and the beginning of Spring both had me abuzz for days the first time I read them. Short-listed for the booker Prize “Fitzgerald was the author of several slim, perfect novels.
. But is she? and why has frank’s bookkeeper, selwyn crane, author of Pure, gone to such lengths to bring these two together? This new edition features an introduction by Andrew Miller, along with new cover art. Mariner Books. She was curiously perfect. Teju cole, author of open City “Writing so precise and lilting it can make you shiver.
Los angeles Times March 1913.
Offshore: A Novel
Winner of the booker prizeon the battersea reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, the temporarily lost, rising and falling with the great river’s tides. The result is one of fitzgerald’s greatest triumphs, a novel the Booker judges deemed “flawless.
A marvelous achievement: strong, generous, supple, humane, ripe, and graceful. Sunday Times Mariner Books. There is maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by happenstance a receiver of stolen goods. Mariner Books. And richard, a buttoned-up ex-navy man whose boat dominates the Reach. Mariner Books.
At Freddie's Flamingo
Human Voices
This new edition features an introduction by Mark Damazer, along with new cover art. Fourth Estate. A wonderful combination of deadpan English comedy and surreal farce. A. Byatt “a tribute to the unsung and quintessentially English heroism of imperfect people. New criterion 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 both sexes, and personal chaos rivaled the political. Mariner Books. Mariner Books.
Innocence: A Novel
Stymied, barney, she calls on her resourceful English girlfriend, to help her make the impossible match. And so ensues a comedy of errors, considerable charm, in which guileless lovers, and the kindest of instincts, with the best of intentions, succeed in making one another thoroughly and astonishingly miserable.
An exquisite mosaic, where every tiny piece is part of a world. A. Mariner Books. Mariner Books. Byatt, threepenny Review Mariner Books. But it’s a vitality matched by innocence—a dangerous combination, to herself and to all who love her. Chiara sets her heart on the bull-headed Salvatore, a brilliant young doctor from the south who resolved long ago to be emotionally dependent on no one.
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The Golden Child
Fitzgerald has an unerring eye for human nature, and this satirical look at the art world delivers a terrifically witty read. While prowling the halls one night, Waring is nearly strangled. Mariner Books. When the glittering treasure of ancient Garamantia, is delivered to the museum, the golden child, a web of intrigue tightens around its personnel, especially the hapless museum officer Waring Smith.
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Encounters with the Archdruid: Narratives About a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. Fourth Estate. Mariner Books. 245 pages.
The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. 245 pages. In the oresteia aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. Fourth Estate. The only trilogy in greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus' The Oresteia is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction, notes and glossary written in collaboration with W.
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Forming an elegant and subtle discourse on the emergence of Athenian democracy out of a period of chaos and destruction, The Oresteia is a compelling tragedy of the tensions between our obligations to our families and the laws that bind us together as a society. In agamemnon, culminating in a terrible act of retribution; the libation bearers deals with the aftermath of Clytemnestra's regicide, as her son Orestes sets out to avenge his father's death; and in The Eumenides, a king's decision to sacrifice his daughter and turn the tide of war inflicts lasting damage on his family, Orestes is tormented by supernatural powers that can never be appeased.
