Penelope Fitzgerald
Offshore
Collins
Offshore recalls Penelope Fitzgerald's time spent on boats in Battersea by the Thames. It is the shortest novel to have won the Booker Prize at only 132 pages; a fact often cited when the question of ‘how to define a novel’ arises.
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Shortlisted authors
Thomas Keneally
V. S. Naipaul
Julian Rathbone |
Fay Weldon Judges
Lord (Asa) Briggs (Chair) |
