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A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively
Category: Biography
?Every house tells a story,? says novelist Penelope Lively. Her social history and memoir delves into the domestic past of her former home in Somerset, showing it to be full of stories. A House Unlocked is an eloquent and engaging examination of England?s past and present.
A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively
Category: Biography Memoir
In A House Unlocked, Penelope Lively takes us on a journey of her familial country house in England that her grandparents bought in 1923. As her narrative shifts from room, object to object, she paints a moving portrait of an era of rapid change and of the family that changed with the times. As she char ...Show more
A Stitch in Time (Essential Modern Classics) by Penelope Lively
Category: Children's Classic Fiction
Essential Modern Classics are relaunched in gorgeous new covers bringing these timeless story to a new generation. Maria likes to be alone with her thoughts. She talks to animals and objects, and generally prefers them to people. But whilst on holiday she begins to hear things that aren't there - a swin ...Show more
According to Mark by Penelope Lively
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Any time spent with Penelope Lively is a joy' Observer 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 nevertheless falls in love with Strong's granddau ...Show more
Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time by Penelope Lively
Category: Biography
In this powerful and compelling 'view from old age', Penelope Lively, at eighty, reports back on what she finds. There are meditations on what it is like to be old as well as on how memory shapes us. There are intriguing examinations of key personal as well as historical moments she has lived through an ...Show more
Ammonites and Leaping Fish - A Life in Time by Penelope Lively
Category: Biography
"One of the finest novelists writing in Britain today". (Times Magazine). 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 view of old age itself, this pla ...Show more
Beyond The Blue Mountains by Penelope Lively
Category: Fiction
A collection of 14 short stories, ranging from the fantasy of Scheherazade to a unusual example of chaos theory.
City of the Mind by Penelope Lively
Category: Fiction
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 decay, and construction.'In London's changing heartland, architect Matthew Halland is aware of how the past ...Show more
Cleopatra's Sister by Penelope Lively
Category: Fiction
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 Nairobi, his plane is forced to land in Marsopolis, the capital of Callimbia, where Cleopatra's sister enter ...Show more
Consequences by Penelope Lively
Category: Fiction
Destinies can change in an instant. In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a penniless and bohemian artist, Matt, she abandons her stuffy Kensington existence in London and moves to a rustic cottage in Somerset. A baby, Molly, is born, but the coming war takes Matt - an ...Show more
Consequences by Penelope Lively
Category: Fiction
In her most touching novel yet, Penelope Lively writes about a young woman, her daughter and her granddaughter, their contrasting lives and their achievement of love. Lorna escapes her conventional Kensington family to marry artist, Matt. They settle in a small cottage in Somerset, where their daughter ...Show more
Family Album by Penelope Lively
Category: Fiction
Family Album is the sixteenth novel from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively. Allersmead is a big shabby Victorian suburban house. The perfect place to grow up for elegant Sandra, difficult Gina, destructive Paul, considerate Katie, clever Roger and flighty Clare. But was it? As adults, the children ret ...Show more