Penulis: Penelope Lively

Follow young Oliver's rebellious coming-of-age in the village of Stillbourne in this comic novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies. Eighteen is a good time for …

This “interesting and perceptive” memoir recalls the familial country house the author’s grandparents bought in 1923 (The Washington Post Book World).   The only child of …

The Man Booker Prize–winning author “charts the efforts of a middle-aged brother and sister to begin a new life after their tyrannical mother’s death” (The New York Times). …

An “abundantly rich collection” of short stories by the Man Booker Prize–winning author (The New York Times Book Review).   In Pack of Cards, Penelope Lively shares moments in …

A Man Booker Prize–shortlisted first novel and a “searing study of the peculiar state of being in love” (The Sunday Telegraph).   In The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively …

Winner of the Man Booker Prize Penelope Lively won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for this deeply moving, elegantly structured novel.  Elderly, uncompromising Claudia Hampton lies in a L …

This “beautiful and brilliant novel” follows an agnostic woman’s relationship with a religious village’s people and its past (Auberon Waugh).  Judgment Day takes us into …

A “well crafted . . . fascinating” story of a London architect’s struggle for identity in love and career (Time Out).  This is the city in which everything is …

Alltägliches Familienchaos: kleine Grausamkeiten, große Gefühle! Ein großes Haus, einen reichen Mann und viele Kinder hatte sich Alison für ihr Leben gewünscht. Und das Leben, so scheint es auf d …

Der neue Roman der Booker-Preisträgerin Der Lehrerin Charlotte wird auf der Straße die Tasche gestohlen, es ist nichts Wertvolles darin, aber sie stürzt und bricht sich die Hüfte. Dieser Überfall …

Maria is always getting lost in the secret world of her imagination…A ghostly mystery and winner of the Whitbread Award, newly republished in the Essential Modern Classics range.Maria likes to be …

The Stone Diaries is the story of one woman’s life; a truly sensuous novel that reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century.Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters …

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No.40 Norham Gardens, Oxford, is the home of Clare Mayfield, her two aged aunts and two lodgers. The house is a huge Victorian monstrosity, with rooms all full of old furniture, old papers, old cloth …

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE** Claudia Hampton – beautiful, famous, independent, dying.But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a ‘history of the …

A hugely satisfying and romantic novel, in Consequences Penelope Lively plots the lives of three generations of twentieth-century women.In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. …

This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses herself and her memories as an insight into how children see and know. …

Perfect Happiness is the fifth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. Frances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband S …

A collection of short stories by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively In Pack of Cards Penelope Lively’s gifts of acute perception and wry humour are distilled into a unique collection of …

City of the Mind is the second novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.’This is the city in which everything is simultaneous. There is no yesterday, nor tomorrow, merely weather, and …

*NOMINATED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD*Family Album ‘a hugely enjoyable read’ from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively’This novel should delight her regular readers and ensnare new ones’ Evening …

A House Unlocked is Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively’s classic memoir.The only child of divorced parents, Penelope Lively was often sent to stay at her grandparents’ country house …

A seductive and hugely suspenseful novel about what can happen when you look too closely into the past; The Photograph is the thirteenth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. Searchin …

A highly original work, in Making it Up, Penelope Lively examines alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path. In this fascinating piece of …

Treasures of Time is the twelfth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively, a spellbinding story of the dangers of digging up the dark secrets of the past. This edition features an introdu …

Pauline is spending the summer at World’s End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her daughter Teresa and baby grandson Luke; and, of course, …

A respected literary biographer, Mark is working on the life of Gilbert Strong – a writer about whom he thinks he knows everything. Happily married, and apparently dedicated to a life of letters, he …

How It All Began is the wonderful new novel from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively When . . . Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to …

Beyond the Blue Mountains is a collection of short stories by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. The fourteen warmly humorous stories in Beyond the Blue Mountains range from the fantasy of …

Cleopatra”s Sister is the tenth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. Detached and unwordly paleontologist Howard Beamish is on a journey that is to change his life. Travelling to Na …

Next to Nature, Art is the fourth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. Run by Toby and Paula, the centre offers ordinary people a chance to learn from professional artists skilled in …

‘Brilliantly captures the ecstasy and agony of falling in love . . . Highly plausible, utterly authentic, beautifully written’ Daily Mail Helen is fifty-two and Edward forty-nine when Dorothy, their …

Spiderweb is the twelfth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. Stella Brentwood has led an exotic life for a woman of her time. Her frivolous best friend at Oxford, Nadine, knew early …

The Road to Lichfield is the Booker Prize shortlisted first novel by Penelope Lively. Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father”s house when he is taken into a nursing …

Judgement Day is the third novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.Settled into the drowsy village life of Laddenham, where she is playing camp follower to her highly successful husband …

A brilliantly funny original short story from Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. ”Anyone artistic needed Abroad in the 1950s.” Paul and his girlfriend are artists in need of subject matte …

A memoir that addresses ageing, memory, time and a life in the 20th century, by one of our greatest writers, Penelope Lively. ‘This is not quite a memoir. Rather, it is the view from old age. And a …

‘You are in the hands of a master’ Daily Mail’Thoughtful, intelligent and light of touch… Lively has the gift, rare and wonderful, of being able to peel back the layers one by one and set them …

‘Wonderful. A manifesto of horticultural delight’ Literary Review ‘Beautiful. Perfect for literary garden lovers’ Good Housekeeping’Rich and unusual, a book to treasure. Few recent gardening books …

Guanyadora del prestigiós premi Man Booker l'any 1987, i més recentment del Golden Man Booker al millor llibre premiat de la dècada dels vuitanta, Moon Tigerés una novel·la deliciosa i …

Including new and never-before-published stories and forgotten treasures: the definitive selection of short stories from one of our greatest living writers, curated by the author herself Wry, …

The second novel in Willa Cather s Great Plains trilogy, is a lyrical coming-of-age story charting the struggles of an artists life. ‘Lingers long in the memory’ Joyce Carol Oates Thea Kronberg, …

¿Fue antes la escritora o el jardín?Penelope Lively se embarca en un fascinante viaje a través de los jardines que han marcado su vida. Desde el gran jardín de la casa en la que se crio, en El …

Mark Lamming tiene una vida perfecta. Afamado escritor de biografías literarias, está felizmente casado con Diana, una galerista de arte. Ahora investiga la vida de Gilbert Strong, escritor, …

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Were prehistoric people like us? How did they live, what did they think and how did they see their world? 3000 BC was a moment of great significance in the British Isles: Avebury, Stonehenge and …