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Ammonites and Leaping Fish - A Life in Time by Penelope Lively
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
"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
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
City of the Mind by Penelope Lively
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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
Consequences by Penelope Lively
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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
$39.95 AUD
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
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Category: New Hardbacks
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
Family Album by Penelope Lively
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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
Heat Wave by Penelope Lively
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Category: 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
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Category: New Hardbacks
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
How it All Began by Penelope Lively
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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
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Category: New Hardbacks
**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
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Category: New Hardbacks
In this fascinating piece of new fiction, Penelope Lively takes moments from her own life and asks what if some outcomes had been otherwise. What if her family's flight from Egypt in 1942 had taken a different route? What would her life have been like if she had become pregnant when she was eighteen ...Show more