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Judgment Day by Penelope Lively
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This "beautiful and brilliant novel" follows an agnostic woman's relationship with a religious village's people and its past (Auberon Waugh). Judgment Day takes us into the life of Clare Paling, who has just moved with her family to Laddenham, a sleepy village enlivened only by sideshows of adultery and ...Show more
Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gardens
**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
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'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
$23.00 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
$22.99 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
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
$23.00 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
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively; Anthony Thwaite (Introduction by)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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
Pack of Cards by Penelope Lively
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An "abundantly rich collection" of short stories by the Man Booker Prize-winning author (The New York Times Book Review). In Pack of Cards, Penelope Lively shares moments in the everyday world that are not always open to observation, as she delves into the minutiae of her characters' lives. Whether sh ...Show more
Passing on by Penelope Lively
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Man Booker Prize-winning author "charts the efforts of a middle-aged brother and sister to begin a new life after their tyrannical mother's death" (The New York Times). In Passing On, "the richest and most rewarding of her novels," Penelope Lively applies her distinctive insight and consummate arti ...Show more
Spiderweb by Penelope Lively
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
At age sixty-five, retired anthropologist Stella Brentwood buys a cottage in Somerset, England, and slowly acquires neighbors, a dog, and a professional curiosity about the country village where she intends to settle and put down roots for the first time. The drama of life in the West Country alternates ...Show more
The Photograph by Penelope Lively
$22.95 AUD
$24.99 (8% off)
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