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A Stitch in Time (Essential Modern Classics) by Penelope Lively
14.99 AUD
Category: 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
Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time by Penelope Lively
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
How it All Began by Penelope Lively
19.99 AUD
Category: 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
35.00 AUD
Category: Gardening Landscape Plants
**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
Metamorphosis by Penelope Lively
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An exquisite selection of the best short stories from one of our best loved writersWry, compassionate, and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's stories get beneath the everyday to the beating heart of human experience. In intimate stories of growing up and growing old, chance encounters and life-long ...Show more
Metamorphosis - Selected Stories by Penelope Lively
45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The definitive selection of short stories from one of our greatest living writers, curated by Penelope Lively herself Wry, compassionate, and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's stories get beneath the everyday to the beating heart of human experience. In intimate stories of growing up and growing ol ...Show more
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'I'm writing a history of the world,' she says . . . And in the process, my own.' Claudia Hampton is dying. A professional historian in her seventies, she casts her mind back through her own life to identify the currents and winds upon which she has been cast adrift. We see how this strong, independent ...Show more
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively
19.95 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Heritage Collection
James is fed up. His family has moved to a new cottage - with grounds that are great for excavations, and trees that are perfect for climbing - and stuff is happening. Stuff that is normally the kind of thing he does. And he's getting blamed for it. But it's not him who's writing strange things on shopp ...Show more
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively
16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
The classic ghost story from Penelope Lively, one of the modern greats of British fiction for adults and children alike. James is fed up. His family has moved to a new cottage - with grounds that are great for excavations, and trees that are perfect for climbing - and stuff is happening. Stuff that is n ...Show more
The House in Norham Gardens by Penelope Lively
15.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
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 clothes, memorabilia - it is like a living museum. Clare discovers in a junk room the vividly painted shield w ...Show more
The Photograph by Penelope Lively
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'DO NOT OPEN - DESTROY.' The words on the envelope he has found are written in Kath's hand, but Glyn ignores his wife's instruction and breaks the seal. His life unwinds. For he finds a photograph showing Kath holding hands with another man. Unable to forget this long-ago act of betrayal he recklessly ...Show more
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories by Penelope Lively
39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Lively remains a sublime storyteller' Guardian on How It All Began 'More stylish than many writers half her age ...Lively knows a thing of two about storytelling.' The Times on How It All Began A dream house that is hiding something sinister; two women having lunch who share a husband; an old woman doi ...Show more
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