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From the Booker Prize-winner of 'Offshore' comes this entertaining tale of a chaotic stage school and its singular headmistress. With a new introduction by Simon Callow.

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Cambridge 1912: Ein harmloser Fahrradunfall bringt die wohlgeordnete Welt des jungen Wissenschaftlers Fred durcheinander. Er verliebt sich in eine unbekannte junge Frau - und das lässt sich mit den Gesetzen der Physik nicht erklären ...Fred ist Physiker, er hat sich ganz der Wissenschaft verschrieben und fuhrt den Statuten gemas ein Junggesellendasein - bis er eines sturmischen Abends in einen Fahrradunfall verwickelt wird. Er findet sich in e...

From the author of "The Beginning of Spring, The Gate of Angels" and "Offshore". Penelope Fitzgerald's new novel is set in Germany at the end of the eighteenth century. It is the story of the brilliant and young Fritz von Hardenberg, who later became the great romantic poet and philosopher Novalis, and his brief love affair with twelve year old Sophie von Kuhn. "She is an intelligent writer, superbly and unfailingly so. But her dry wit is also...

Two newly jacketed reissues.

New cover reissue of this Booker-shortlisted novel.

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Fred Fairly is een jonge universitair docent aan St. Angelicus, een fictief college in Cambridge. Op een avond fietst hij in het donker langs de weg wanneer een onverlichte boerenkar plotseling uit een oprit komt. Fred moet op het laatste moment uitwijken, en raakt bij deze manoeuvre een andere fietser, een jonge vrouw met de naam Daisy Saunders. Beiden raken bewusteloos door het ongeluk en worden door de vrouw van een professor liefdevol in h...

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Here is a biography whose eccentric genius perfectly matches that of its subjects. Penelope Fitzgerald tells the lives of four extraordinary Englishmen-her father and his brothers-with style and wit. Here is the story of a deeply fascinating family mind, shared by four brothers and passed along to their remarkable biographer.

A jewel of a book." -Daily Mail It is the 1960s, in London's West End, and Freddie is the formidable proprietress of the Temple Stage School, which supplies child actors for everything from Shakespeare to musicals to the Christmas pantomime. Of unknown age and provenance, Freddie is a skirt-swathed enigma-a woman who by sheer force of character and single-minded thrust has turned herself and her school into a national institution. Anyone who ...

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A wonderful combination of deadpan English comedy and surreal farce." - A. S. 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...