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A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively
$29.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
?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 Stitch in Time (Essential Modern Classics) by Penelope Lively
$16.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
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
City of the Mind by Penelope Lively
$24.99 NZD
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
$24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Set in an imaginary country somewhere between Egypt and Libya, this book looks at the choices and lives of two central characters - Howard Beamish, a palaeontologist, and Lucy Faulkner, a journalist. Their stories are bound with tales of Callimbia from the time of Berenice, Cleopatra's sister.
Consequences by Penelope Lively
$45.00 NZD
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
Consequences by Penelope Lively
$28.00 NZD
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
Family Album by Penelope Lively
$29.00 NZD
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
Family Album by Penelope Lively
$45.00 NZD
Category: 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
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Penelope Lively
$17.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Stories to Collect and Treasure Ser.
A retelling of the traditional children's tale. Goldilocks is walking through the woods when she comes across a cottage. She lets herself in to explore and causes chaos. Will the three bears come home and find her?
How it All Began by Penelope Lively
$26.00 NZD
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
How it All Began by Penelope Lively
$45.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 intercepted by his wife, which is ...just the beginning in the ensuing chain of li ...Show more
Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively
$40.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
**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