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1. marischindele.substack.com › p › they-also-serve-whoThey Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait

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   Sep 25, 2024 · Try a novel—any novel—by Penelope Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald wrote her moving, wry, well-plotted stories in clean, spare prose. As a bonus for the time-strapped, most of her novels are short—under two hundred pages. For much of her career Fitzgerald was misunderestimated.

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3. marischindele.substack.com › p › the-people-have-spokenThe People Have Spoken - by Mari, the Happy Wanderer

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   Oct 2, 2024 · Penelope Fitzgerald based her second novel, The Bookshop (1978), on her own experiences. 1 After Fitzgerald’s husband, Desmond, was disbarred and prosecuted for forging checks, the family fell into dire poverty. In 1958, they fled their London home, leaving nearly everything behind, to avoid the shame of being evicted for non-payment of rent.

4. thebookerprizes.com › the-booker-library › features11 of the best short books in the Booker Prizes library ...

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   Sep 27, 2024 · Penelope Fitzgerald’s Offshore, which won the prize in 1979, is the shortest-ever book to win, at 141 pages. Anita Brookner’s witty 1984-prize winner Hotel du Lac is almost as short, while Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach, shortlisted in 2007, barely breaks 200 pages.

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6. thelittlewhiteattic.blogspot.com › 2024 › 10The BBC’s 100 greatest British novels, and some top 5

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   20 hours ago · The Blue Flower (Penelope Fitzgerald, 1995) 72. The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene, 1948) 71. Old Filth (Jane Gardam, 2004) 70. Daniel Deronda (George Eliot, 1876)

7. www.commonreader.co.uk › p › the-moon-sixpence-andThe Moon, Sixpence, and Sally Rooney - by Henry Oliver

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   20 hours ago · Beautiful World, Where Are You. Reading Schiller is essential to understanding Beautiful World (the same is true of a Heine poem for Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald—Fitzgerald complained that no-one noticed the link to Heine: Rooney is sensible to point out her source in the acknowledgements.)

8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_winners_andList of winners and nominated authors of the Booker Prize

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   Oct 8, 2024 · The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland.

9. www.theoldie.co.uk › blog › the-strange-decline-ofThe strange decline of literary journalism. By A N Wilson

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   Sep 18, 2024 · (Evoe was father of the novelist Penelope Fitzgerald.) ‘What do you do, then?’ asked the man. Knox replied, ‘We live on our wits.’ It was easier to live on your wits in the days of Connolly, Orwell and Muggeridge.