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Children's eBooks
Maria is always getting lost in the secret world of her imagination... A ghostly mystery and winner of the Whitbread Award, newly republished in the Essential Modern Classics range. Maria likes to be alone with her... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing "The memory that we live with... is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is... See More
"A powerful, moving and beautifully wrought novel about the ways in which lives are molded by personal memory and the collective past." -- The Boston Globe Winner of the Man Booker Prize Elderly, uncompromising Claudia... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and life Penelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature... See More
Literature & Fiction
A "well crafted... fascinating" story of a London architect's struggle for identity in love and career (Time Out). This is the city in which everything is simultaneous. There is no yesterday, nor tomorrow, merely weather... See More
Literature & Fiction
A vibrant new novel from Penelope Lively -- a wry, wise story about the surprising ways lives intersect Look out for Penelope Lively's new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories. When Charlotte Rainsford, a retired... See More
Literary Fiction
Look out for Penelope Lively's new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories. Hailed by critics as a benchmark in a career full of award-winning achievements, Making It Up is Penelope Lively's answer to the oft-asked... See More
Literature & 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... See More
Literary 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... See More
Literary Fiction
A seductive and hugely suspenseful novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively, about what can happen when you look too closely into the past Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Penelope Lively's masterpiece opens... See More
Literary 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... See More
The Booker Prize-winning author's sweeping saga of three generations of women "One of the most accomplished writers of fiction of our day" (The Washington Post ) follows the lives and loves of three women-Lorna, Molly, and... See More
This "interesting and perceptive" memoir recalls the familial country house the author's grandparents bought in 1923 (The Washington Post Book World). The only child of divorced parents, Penelope Lively was often sent to... See More
Literature & Fiction
A Man Booker Prize-shortlisted first novel and a "searing study of the peculiar state of being in love" (The Sunday Telegraph). In The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively explores the nature of history and memory as it is... See More
Literature & Fiction
A glimmering collection of new short fiction from the Booker Prize winner. "Lively writes with an astringent blend of sympathy and detachment, emotional wisdom and satiric wit." -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In... See More
Literature & Fiction
"In this haunting new novel, the act of forgetting is as strange and interesting as the power of remembering." -- The New York Times Book Review Look out for Penelope Lively's new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other... See More
A brilliantly funny original short story from Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. 'Anyone artistic needed Abroad in the 1950s.' Paul and his girlfriend are artists in need of subject matter. Arresting, evocative... See More