Florence Green, a widow, opens a bookshop in a small Suffolk town and this sets in motion a series of events through which the author portrays the town and its inhabitants as less sunny and innocent then they initially appear. A New Y...

A Booker Prize-winning story offers a stunning portrait of a group of eccentrics living in houseboats on the river Thames and describes how their disparate lives intertwine and complicate matters for everyone. Reprint. 50,000 first pr...

Short-listed for the Booker Prize Fitzgerald was the author of several slim perfect novels The Blue Flower and The Beginning of Spring both had me abuzz for days the first time I read them She was curiously perfect - Teju Cole author ...

The anecdotes are wonderful. The Knox Brothers...provides a striking insight into the elusive nature of Fitzgerald's genius.' -New York Times. Here is a biography whose eccentric genius perfectly matches that of its subjects. Penelop...