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A Novel
A vibrant novel from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively—a wry, wise story about the surprising ways lives intersect When Charlotte Rainsford, a ret...
“A powerful, moving and beautifully wrought novel about the ways in which lives are molded by personal memory and the collective past.” —The Bos...
A respected literary biographer, Mark is working on the life of Gilbert Strong - a writer about whom he thinks he knows everything. Happily married, a...
'Wonderful. A manifesto of horticultural delight' Literary Review 'Beautiful. Perfect for literary garden lovers' Good Housekeeping 'Rich and unusual,...
An “abundantly rich collection” of short stories by the Man Booker Prize–winning author (The New York Times Book Review). In Pack of Cards, Pene...
"One of Britain's most talented and experienced writers. The closer you look the more mystery you see." --The Times (London) A seductive and hugely su...
"In this haunting new novel, the act of forgetting is as strange and interesting as the power of remembering." —The New York Times Book Review An en...
"Nobody writes more astutely or affectingly about [love]... than Penelope Lively." -- The Washington Post An intelligent examination of alternative de...
Beyond the Blue Mountains is a collection of short stories by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. The fourteen warmly humorous stories in Bey...
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 n...
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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 secr...
Penelope Lively is one of England's greatest living writers. In City of the Mind, Matthew Halland is an architect intimately involved with the new fac...
A hugely satisfying and romantic novel, in Consequences Penelope Lively plots the lives of three generations of twentieth-century women. In 1935, priv...
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Lively takes readers on a journey of her familial country house in England, purchased by her grandparents in 1923. As her narrative shifts from room, ...
An Introduction to Landscape History
The mugging of a retired schoolteacher on a London street has unexpected repercussions for her friends and neighbors when it inadvertently reveals an ...
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 daught...
This “beautiful and brilliant novel” follows an agnostic woman’s relationship with a religious village’s people and its past (Auberon Waugh). ...
A Childhood Perceived
This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses herself and her memori...
Penelope Lively's Booker Prize winning classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire, published here as a Penguin Essential for the first...
Fourteen stories on relations between men and women. In one story, an estranged couple find common cause in their dislike of their marriage counsellor...
A glimmering collection of new short fiction from the Booker Prize winner. “Lively writes with an astringent blend of sympathy and detachment, emoti...
Rumor says that the Wild Hunt has been heard again - ghost hounds and antlered horsemen - broughtback by the revival of the ancient Horn Dance in the ...
Cleopatra's Sister is the tenth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. Detached and unwordly paleontologist Howard Beamish is on a jour...
Summary: Three children concoct a witch's brew that conjures up Morgan Le Fay in the guise of a local tycoon's wife who immediately stirs up trouble i...
In a flooded world, from which humans have fled, a band of animals travel to London to find out what kind of animal Stanley is. Their only clue is a p...
On a visit to her childhood home a woman recalls the experiences she and her brother had while living there during World War II and especially the rea...
A girl's stuffed animals, Frog, Lion, and Cat, and her doll, Mary Ann, each take her on a different bedtime adventure....
Family Album, nominated?for the 2009 Costa Book Award, is the story of a far-flung family with a dark secret at its heart. Having left Allersmead, the...
Relates the adventures of a variety of creatures--mice, spiders, pill bugs--that live, seen and unseen, in the nooks and crannies of an ordinary house...
When positively uncanny things begin happening in the new housing development, Tim and his grandfather realize they must do something to stop them....
William, Martha, and Susie inadvertently bring the sorceress Morgan le Fay to life. Whitbread Literary Award, Children's Book Category, 1976. Recommen...
Peter's birthday gift to his grandfather of two strange-looking eggs begins a series of adventures when the eggs hatch into dragons....
Perfect Happiness is the fifth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. Frances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged int...
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 ...
Pulitzer Prize Winner (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication, Carol Shields's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now available in a Penguin Cl...
Being the eldest of 8 children is a great trial to Fanny, who is not cut out to be a demure Victorian miss, and her love of excitement and adventure l...