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Penelope Lively

UK  (1933 - )
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About Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively's adult novel Moon Tiger won the Booker Prize. In addition, her children's book The Ghost of Thomas Kempe won the Carnegie Medal, and A Stitch in Time won the Whitbread Book of the Year award.
 
New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

Consequences
Consequences

Spooky Stories: Three Stories in One
Spooky Stories
Three Stories in One

Anthologies edited
The May Anthologies: 1999: Short Stories
 
Non fiction
Jacaranda, Oleander: A Memoir
 
Anthologies containing stories by Penelope Lively
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost StoriesThe Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost StoriesThe Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories
 
Short stories
Revenant as Typewriter (1978)
Uninvited Ghosts (1981)


Awards
Carnegie Medal Best Novel winner (1974) : The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1977) : The Road to Lichfield
The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1984) : According to Mark
The Booker Prize Best Novel winner (1987) : Moon Tiger


Books about Penelope Lively
Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper
 
Links to other websites
penelopelively.co.uk


Penelope Lively recommends
An Experiment in Love
An Experiment in Love (1995)
Hilary Mantel
"It is vivid. It is moving and entertaining in equal measures. Buy it and find out for yourself."
Blame Hitler
Blame Hitler (1997)
Julian Rathbone
"A shrewd and intricate narrative by a skilful novelist."
Larry's Party
Larry's Party (1997)
Carol Shields
"A brilliant fictional reflection on what it may be like to be a man in the late twentieth century."
Heaven Forbid
Heaven Forbid (2002)
Christopher Hope
"A potent rendering of childhood."
Those Who Save Us
Those Who Save Us (2004)
Jenna Blum
"I was much impressed. A powerful evocation of terrible events, moving and persuasive. A remarkable first novel, with memorable characters."
Only Human
Only Human (2004)
Susie Boyt
"She has a deft touch....Boyt is a dab hand at dialogue...there is much here to enjoy. "
The Republic of Trees
The Republic of Trees (2005)
Sam Taylor
"A bold debut . . . one wants to see what Taylor does next."



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