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Making It Up by Penelope Lively
$24.95 AUD
Category: 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
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; Anthony Thwaite (Introduction by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: 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
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE** Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First Worl ...Show more
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively
$14.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Reading Level: very good
James' 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 shopping lists and ...Show more
The Photograph by Penelope Lively
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
One day, whilst searching in a cupboard, Glyn finds a sealed envelope with the words 'Don't Open - Destroy' scrawled on it by his wife, Kath. Compelled by curiosity to ignore her instruction, he breaks the seal to find a photograph showing Kath holding hands with another man. Suddenly this one act of be ...Show more
Treasures of Time (Penguin Decades) by Penelope Lively
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Decades
"Penguin Decades" bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of ...Show more