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Een oude dame ligt in een ziekenhuisbed in Londen. Het is Claudia Hampton, schrijfster van populairhistorische boeken. Ze neemt zich voor om nu, vlak

Ga mee op een literaire wandeling door de tuinen van de Britse schrijfster Penelope Lively: van de oase in Caïro waar ze opgroeide tot de kleine stads

De veelgelauwerde Britse schrijfster Penelope Lively kijkt terug op een leven waarin tuinieren net zo belangrijk was als lezen en schrijven. Ze neemt

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

Ga mee op een literaire wandeling door de tuinen van de Britse schrijfster Penelope Lively: van de oase in Caïro waar ze opgroeide tot de kleine stads

Een oude dame ligt in een ziekenhuisbed in Londen. Het is Claudia Hampton, schrijfster van populairhistorische boeken. Ze neemt zich voor om nu, vlak

A respected literary biographer, Mark is working on the life of Gilbert Strong - a writer about whom he thinks he knows everything. Happily married, a

Frances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband Steve has died leaving her unprepared

Paperback edition of the bestselling novel. When Glyn Peters finds a photograph of his wife, the certainties of the past and present slip away. Nation

The Road to Lichfield is the Booker Prize shortlisted first novel by Penelope Lively, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time on the 40th

How It All Began is the wonderful new novel from Booker Prize winner Penelope LivelyWhen . . . Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Ro

A hugely satisfying novel, plotting the lives of three generations of 20th century women. Lively's previous book, }The Photograph{ has sold over 85,00

Penelope Lively has written many prize-winning novels for adults and children. They include The Road to Lichfield, According To Mark. Moon Tiger (whi

Includes fourteen stories that range from the fantasy of Scheherazade to a dazzling example of chaos theory, depicting in exquisite prose the subtle b

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE** Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.But she remains defiant to the last, telling h

'Sharp, unsentimental and ruefully funny. A fascinating portrait not only of Lively but of the times through which she has lived' Daily Telegraph'Cle

Introduced by Selina Hastings.

'Lively remains a sublime storyteller' Guardian on How It All Began'More stylish than many writers half her age . . . Lively knows a thing of two abou

No.40 Norham Gardens, Oxford, is the home of Clare Mayfield, her two aged aunts and two lodgers. The house is a huge Victorian monstrosity, with rooms

Published in Penguin Modern Classics, Penelope Lively's Heat Wave is a moving portrayal of a fragile family damaged and defined by adultery, and the l