Penelope Fitzgerald

Nov 12, 2024 | thebookerprizes.substack.com | Samantha Harvey |Paul Lynch |Penelope Fitzgerald

Orbitalby Samantha Harvey is today, Tuesday, 12 November, named the winner of the Booker Prize 2024. Harvey receives £50,000 and a trophy, which was presented to her by Paul Lynch, last year’s winner, at a ceremony held at Old Billingsgate in London. Orbital, which is Harvey’s fifth novel and sixth book, takes place over a single day in the life of six astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station.

Jul 17, 2024 | thebookerprizes.com | Max Porter |Anton Hur |Penelope Fitzgerald |Beryl Bainbridge

Skip to main content Gaby Wood, Chief Executive of the Booker Prize Foundation, reveals the qualities we are looking for when selecting ‘a jury of creative peers’ Written by Gaby Wood Publication date and time: Published July 17, 2024Last week, we revealed the judges for the International Booker Prize 2025 – a panel chaired by bestselling Booker Prize-longlisted author Max Porter and which includes Caleb Femi, Sana Goyal, Anton Hur and Beth Orton.

Jun 22, 2024 | uk.bookshop.org | Penelope Fitzgerald |Salman Rushdie |Kazuo Ishiguro |Hilary Mantel

The Booker Prize and The International Booker Prize honour fiction on a global basis. First awarded in 1969, The Booker Prize is the leading prize for quality fiction written in English. It has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades, and transforms the careers of all those nominated. The list of former winners features many of the literary giants of the last half century: from Penelope Fitzgerald to Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro to Hilary Mantel.

Apr 4, 2024 | churchtimes.co.uk | Penelope Fitzgerald |Harper Collins

THE Beginning of Spring, first published in 1988, is a novel to which I often turn at this time of year, as winter loses its grip, days gradually lengthen, and thick coats can be stashed away at last. To me, the English spring never fails to feel welcome, energising, and somewhat overdue. It is a salutary reminder to read of a time and place where this seasonal change has even more impact.

Apr 4, 2024 | churchtimes.co.uk | Penelope Fitzgerald

The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald is the choice for this month’s Church Times Book Club. On the podcast this week, Emily Rhodes, who has written this month’s Book Club essay about the book, is in conversation with Sarah Meyrick. The Beginning of Spring is a historical novel set in Moscow a few years before the Russian Revolution as political tensions mount. The story starts with the sudden unexplained departure of Frank Reid’s wife, Nellie.