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Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

6 best books like Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life (Hermione Lee): Offshore, In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, The Blue Flower, Redeployment, Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50, Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse

Offshore
AuthorPenelope Fitzgerald
ISBN0006542565
On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the great river’s tides. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they cling to one another in a motley yet kindly society. There is...
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
AuthorLindsey Hilsum
ISBN1473545382
** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK **

‘It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable, and that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars.’ Marie Colvin, 2001

Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than...
The Blue Flower
AuthorPenelope Fitzgerald
ISBN0395859972
Penelope Fitzgerald wrote her first novel 20 years ago, at the age of 59. Since then, she's written eight more, three of which have been short-listed for England's prestigious Booker Prize, and one of which, Offshore, won. Now she's back with her tenth and best book so far, The Blue Flower. This is the...
Redeployment
AuthorPhil Klay
ISBN1594204993
Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these...
Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50
AuthorAgnès Poirier
ISBN1627790241
An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris

In this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying, significant, and...
Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse
AuthorAndrea di Robilant
ISBN1101946652
The acclaimed author of A Venetian Affair now gives us the remarkable story of Hemingway's love affair with both the city of Venice and the muse he found there—a vivacious 18-year-old who inspired the man thirty years her senior to complete his great final work.

In the fall of 1948 Hemingway...
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