Author: Penelope Lively

The classic ghost story from Penelope Lively, one of the modern greats of British fiction for adults and children alike. ...

Including new and never-before-published stories and forgotten treasures: the definitive selection of short stories from one of our greatest living...

*NOMINATED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD*Family Album ''a hugely enjoyable read'' from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively''This novel should delight h...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE** Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.But she remains defiant to the last, tellin...

Superb, unmissable ...The writing is as good as it gets -- The TimesLively has guts and style. You are in the hands of a master -- Daily MailThe de...

'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 a...

From Penelope Lively, winner of the Booker PrizeWhen . . . Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer ...

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 ro...

The Road to Lichfield is the Booker Prize shortlisted first novel by Penelope Lively, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time on the 40...

Published in Penguin Modern Classics, Penelope Lively's Heat Wave is a moving portrayal of a fragile family damaged and defined by adultery, and th...

'Wonderful. A manifesto of horticultural delight' Literary Review 'Beautiful. Perfect for literary garden lovers' Good Housekeeping'Rich and unusu...

Maria is always getting lost in the secret world of her imagination A ghostly mystery and winner of the Whitbread Award,republished in th...