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A Stitch in Time (Essential Modern Classics) by Penelope Lively
$17.00 NZD
Category: Children's classics
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
$26.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$28.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Consequences by Penelope Lively
$45.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Consequences by Penelope Lively
$28.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Family Album by Penelope Lively
$30.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Family Album by Penelope Lively
$45.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A big shabby Victorian suburban house, the smell of raincoats and coq au vin in the hall, the six mugs for the children slung from the kitchen dresser hooks: for destructive Paul, difficult Gina, elegant Sandra, considerate Katie, clever Roger and flighty Clare, Allersmead was the perfect place to grow ...Show more
Heat Wave by Penelope Lively
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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, Maurice, the man Teresa married. As the hot months unfold, Maurice grows ever more involved in the book ...Show more
How it All Began by Penelope Lively
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
This 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 Manchester, which means his niece Marion has to go instead, which means she sends a text to her lover which is intercep ...Show more
Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
**A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 2017**'Rich and unusual, this is a book to treasure' Alex Preston, ObserverPenelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmother's ...Show more
Making It Up by Penelope Lively
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Story-telling is an ingrained habit; I wouldn't know what else to do. But the mythology that is intriguing today is that of imagined alternatives. Somehow, choice and contingency have landed you where you are, as the person that you are, and the whole process seems so precarious that you look back at t ...Show more
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively; Anthony Thwaite (Introduction by)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Winner of the Man Booker Prize and Shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker Prize The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead ...Show more