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A Long Night at Abu Simbel by Penelope Lively
$5.00 AUD
Category: Gift Books | Series: Penguin 60s S.
Three short stories, the first of which focuses on a group of people trapped in an Egyptian airport without a tour guide. The second looks at a woman's outrage when a cat impregnates her kitten, and the third examines the end of an affair. All three explore beneath the veneer of good behaviour.
Ammonites and Leaping Fish - A Life in Time by Penelope Lively
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | 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
How it All Began by Penelope Lively
$19.99 AUD
Category: General 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
$35.00 AUD
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
Metamorphosis - Selected Stories by Penelope Lively
$45.00 AUD
Category: New 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: General 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 Photograph by Penelope Lively
$24.99 AUD
Category: General 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
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