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Penelope Lively

(1933 - )
(Mother of Adam Lively)

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 Hardbacks

Family Album

Novels

Astercote (1970)
The Wild Hunt of the Ghost Hounds (1971)
The Whispering Knights (1971)
The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy (1971)
The Driftway (1972)
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (1973)
The House in Norham Gardens (1974)
Going Back (1975)
Boy Without a Name (1975)
The Stained Glass Window (1976)
A Stitch in Time (1976)
Fanny's Sister (1977)
The Road to Lichfield (1977)
The Voyage of QV 66 (1978)
Treasures of Time (1979)
Fanny and the Monsters (1979)
Judgment Day (1980)
The Revenge of Samuel Stokes (1981)
Next to Nature, Art (1982)
Perfect Happiness (1983)
According to Mark (1984)
Dragon Trouble (1984)
Moon Tiger (1987)
A House Inside Out (1987)
The City of the Mind (1988)
Passing On (1989)
Judy and the Martian (1992)
Cleopatra's Sister (1993)
The Cat, the Crow, and the Banyan Tree (1994)
A Martian Comes to Stay (1995)
Heat Wave (1996)
Spiderweb (1998)
Debbie and the Little Devil (2000)
In Search of a Homeland, the Story of the Aeneid (2001)
A House Unlocked (2001)
A Martian in the Supermarket (2002)
The Photograph (2003)
Making It Up (2005)
Consequences (2007)
Family Album (2009)

Collections

Nothing Missing But the Samovar (1978)
Uninvited Ghosts (1984)
Pack of Cards: And Other Stories (1986)
Lost Dog and Other Stories (1996)
Beyond the Blue Mountains (1997)
Spooky Stories: Three Stories in One (2008) (with Gillian Cross, Mary Hoffman)

Anthologies edited

The May Anthologies: 1999: Short Stories (1999)

Non fiction

Jacaranda, Oleander: A Memoir (1994)

Anthologies containing stories by Penelope Lively

The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (1991)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000)

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 (2006) by Charles Butler

Links to other websites

penelopelively.co.uk

Penelope Lively recommends

The Maid of Buttermere (1987) Melvyn Bragg "A vivid and erudite tour de force."	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 (1997) Julian Rathbone "A shrewd and intricate narrative by a skilful novelist."
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 (2002) Christopher Hope "A potent rendering of childhood."	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 (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 (2005) Sam Taylor "A bold debut . . . one wants to see what Taylor does next."

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