Penelope Fitzgerald

What compels you to buy a novel? I bought Offshore on the day after it won the 1979 Booker Prize. This was partly in response to the dismissive BBC Book Programme about "this trouble-creating Booker Prize" in which Robert Robinson, himself an abysmal novelist, proposed to everyone on the panel, including Fitzgerald, that "the Booker judges [...]

Penelope Fitzgerald2013-10-31T19:16:52+00:00

Isle of Wight Literary Festival

Talk in the Villa Rothsay Hotel was of an impending authors' rebellion against free appearances. One director of a British Literary Festival, so the story goes, recently offered an American novelist £20,000 to appear, plus a first class air ticket. And yet we are supposed to be on a level playing field. The last time [...]

Isle of Wight Literary Festival2013-10-24T15:03:17+01:00
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