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  • Moon Tiger
    Penelope Lively
    A stage adaptation of the 1987 Booker Prize-winning novel, with an introduction by original author Penelope Lively Claudia Hampton is a popular historian, a strong, beautiful and difficult woman. Now in her seventies, she is plotting her greatest work - a history of the world. She looks back over her life growing up between the wars and remembers the people who have shared its ...
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    21,18 €

  • Ink and Spirit
    Penelope Lively / Richard Marsh / Ronald Blythe
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    24,28 €

  • According to Mark
    Penelope Lively
    A respected literary biographer Mark is working on the life of Gilbert Strong - a writer about whom he thinks he knows everything. Happily married and apparently dedicated to a life of letters he nevertheless falls in love with Strong’s granddaughter Carrie a vague and unsophisticated young woman more interested in bedding plants than books or passion. As Mark’s obsessions ...
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    14,50 €

  • City of the Mind
    Penelope Lively
    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 and the present blend. It stirs memories of his boyhood the early years of h...
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    22,78 €

  • A House Unlocked
    Penelope Lively
    A House Unlocked is Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively’s classic memoir.The only child of divorced parents Penelope Lively was often sent to stay at her grandparents’ country house Golsoncott. Years later as the house was sold out of the family she began to piece together the lives of those she knew fifty years before.In a needlework sampler she sees her grandmothe...
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    22,71 €

  • Treasures of Time
    Penelope Lively
    Treasures of Time is the twelfth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively a spellbinding story of the dangers of digging up the dark secrets of the past. This edition features an introduction by Selina Hastings.Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published some were bestsellers some were considered scandalous and...
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    14,56 €

  • Consequences
    Penelope Lively
    A hugely satisfying and romantic novel Consequences plots the lives of three generations of twentieth-century women.In 1935 privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a pennyless 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...
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    22,38 €

  • Making It Up
    Penelope Lively
    An intelligent examination of alternative destinies choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path from Booker Prize-winning author Penelope LivelyIn this fascinating piece of fiction Penelope Lively takes moments from her own life and asks ’what if’ she had made other choices: what if she hadn’t escaped from Alexandria at the outbreak of WWI...
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    19,10 €

  • The Photograph
    Penelope Lively
    A seductive and hugely suspenseful novel about what can happen when you look too closely into the past; The Photograph is the thirteenth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.Searching through a little-used cupboard at home Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen before. Taken in high summer many years earlier it shows his wife Kath holding h...
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    19,16 €

  • Beyond the Blue Mountains
    Penelope Lively
    Beyond the Blue Mountains is a collection of short stories by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.The fourteen warmly humorous stories in Beyond the Blue Mountains range from the fantasy of Scheherazade to a dazzling example of chaos theory depicting in exquisite prose the subtle but significant events that go to create everyday experience.’Penelope Lively at her most ...
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    19,50 €

  • Pack of Cards
    Penelope Lively
    A collection of short stories by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively In Pack of Cards Penelope Lively’s gifts of acute perception and wry humour are distilled into a unique collection of mesmerizing stories.’Confirms her as the most original and piercing writer now working in that most unsparing of genres - short stories’ The TimesPenelope Lively is the author of many ...
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    23,51 €

  • Cleopatras Sister
    Penelope Lively
    Cleopatra’s Sister is the tenth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.Detached and unwordly paleontologist Howard Beamish is on a journey that is to change his life. Travelling to Nairobi his plane is forced to land in Marsopolis the capital of Callimbia where Cleopatra’s sister entertained Antony. Also on the flight is Lucy Faulkner a journalist with a sketc...
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    23,70 €

  • Passing On
    Penelope Lively
    Passing On is the eighth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.Helen is fifty-two and Edward forty-nine when Dorothy their mother dies ending her reign of terror and leaving them ill-equipped to deal with their lives. Timid cautious and naive Helen makes the charming Giles Carnaby familiy solicitor the object of a belated schoolgirl crush while Edward fr...
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    23,96 €

  • Spiderweb
    Penelope Lively
    Spiderweb is the twelfth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.Stella Brentwood has led an exotic life for a woman of her time. Her frivolous best friend at Oxford Nadine knew early what she wanted: marriage and children. Stella too has had her share of passion but her work as an anthropologist - always the outsider the observer was her priority.Now she ha...
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    23,96 €