Background
Lively, Penelope Margaret was born on March 17, 1933 in Cairo. Daughter of Roger Vincent Low and Vera Mary (Reckitt) Greer.
( In The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively explores the ...)
In The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively explores the nature of history and memory as it is embodied in the life of a forty-year-old woman, Anne Linton, who unexpectedly learns that her father had a mistress. With this new knowledge, Linton must now examine the realities of her own life - of her childhood, her husband - and ask, What do they really know of her? Deeply felt, beautifully controlled, The Road to Lichfield is a subtle exploration of memory and identity, of chance and consequence, of the intricate weave of generations across a past never fully known, a future never fully anticipated.
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(Next to Nature, Art is the fourth novel by Booker Prize w...)
Next to Nature, Art is the fourth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. Run by Toby and Paula, the centre offers ordinary people a chance to learn from professional artists skilled in poetry, sculpture, ceramics, and the like. Artists like Greg, the New England poet, whose works are strangely absent; or Bob the lascivious potter who sells his Toby jugs to department stores. As the latest group of students arrives, tensions begin to run high and artistic temperaments are much on display. In fact much more is learnt about expressing oneself than was ever suggested on the prospectus. "Delightful ...complex and exquisite. Penelope Lively's prose is beautiful and spare and she is a master of understatement". (Daily Telegraph). "Her economy and wit are apparent on every page ...it all leads to a splendid climax ...wonderful, sensible, funny Penelope Lively". (Evening Standard). Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her other books include Going Back; Judgement Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect Happiness; Passing On; City of the Mind; Cleopatra's Sister; Heat Wave; Beyond the Blue Mountains, a collection of short stories; Oleander, Jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in Egypt; Spiderweb; her autobiographical work, A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and How It All Began. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List, and DBE in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London.
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(Perfect Happiness is the fifth novel by Booker Prize winn...)
Perfect Happiness is the fifth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. Frances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband Steve has died leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. At first she is completely submerged in her own loss until, shocked into feeling by the unexpected revelations and private sufferings of others, she is drawn agonizingly into new life - not into perfect happiness but into the sunlight of new hope. Penelope Lively's moving and beautifully observed novel illuminates two terrifying taboos of the twentieth-century - death and grief. "A triumph". (Spectator). Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her other books include Going Back; Judgement Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect Happiness; Passing On; City of the Mind; Cleopatra's Sister; Heat Wave; Beyond the Blue Mountains, a collection of short stories; Oleander, Jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in Egypt; Spiderweb; her autobiographical work, A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and How It All Began. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List, and DBE in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London.
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( Winner of the Man Booker Prize The elderly Claudia Ham...)
Winner of the Man Booker Prize The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with its often contentious relations with family and friends. At its center — forever frozen in time, the still point of her turning world — is the cruelly truncated affair with Tom, a British tank commander whom Claudia knew as a reporter in Egypt during World War II.
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( A stage adaptation of the 1987 Booker Prize-winning nov...)
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 triumphs and tragedies. There is Gordon, her adored brother; Jasper, the charming, untrustworthy lover and father of her daughter, and Tom, her one great love, both found and lost during the El Alamein campaign when she worked as a war correspondent. Against a background of world events, Claudia’s own remarkable story provokes a sharp combination of sadness, shock and amusement. Simon Reade’s adaptation is introduced by Penelope Lively herself. Compelling, moving and eloquent, one of the great novels of the 20th century is brought to the stage for the first time. Winner of the 1987 Booker Prize, Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire. "Reade’s adaptation is undoubtedly faithful to the book." - Daily Express "A moving, thought provoking play which sends you home questioning. Moon Tiger is a worthy addition to theatre history." - Gloucestershire Echo "An excellent adaptation that offers an evocative portrayal of one woman’s life remembrances." – Everything Theatre "What hits one within minutes of the play opening is the beauty of the language, the clever use of words that make for gentle humour and how often the play nudges us in the direction of remembering our own history." - Bath Chronicle
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(A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished ...)
A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively, Oleander, Jacaranda evokes the author's unusual childhood growing up English in Egypt during the 1930s and 1940s. Filled with the birds, animals and planets of the Nile landscape that the author knew as a child, Oleander, Jacaranda follows the young Penelope from a visit to a fellaheen village to an afternoon at the elegant Gezira Sporting Club, one milieu as exotic to her as the other. Lively's memoir offers us the rare opportunity to accompany a gifted writer on a journey of exploration into the mysterious world of her own childhood.
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(This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is al...)
This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses herself and her memories as an insight into how children see and know. It is a look at Eygpt up to, and including, World War II from a small girl's point of view, which is also, ultimately, a moving and rather sad picture of an isolated and lonely little girl.
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(This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is al...)
This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses herself and her memories as an insight into how children see and know. It is a look at Egypt up to, and including, World War II from a small girl's point of view, which is also, ultimately, a moving and rather sad picture of an isolated and lonely little girl.
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( In A House Unlocked, Whitbread Award- and Booker Prize-...)
In A House Unlocked, Whitbread Award- and Booker Prize-winning Penelope Lively takes us on a journey of her familial country house in England that her grandparents bought in 1923. As her narrative shifts from room to room, object to object, she paints a moving portrait of an era of rapid change -- and of the family that changed with the times. As she charts the course of the domestic tensions of class and community among her relatives, she brings to life the effects of the horrors of the Russian Revolution and the Holocaust through portraits of the refugees who came to live with them. A fascinating, intimate social history of its times, A House Unlocked is an eloquent meditation on place and time, memory and history, and above all a tribute to the meaning of home.
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(Since being wiped out in the 14th century by the Black De...)
Since being wiped out in the 14th century by the Black Death, the village of Astercote has been overgrown by forest, but its past still haunts the local Cotswold folk. Soon, villagers fall ill, crosses are marked on the doors and the modern village is taken over by a medieval consciousness.
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(Three children concoct a witch's brew that conjures up Mo...)
Three children concoct a witch's brew that conjures up Morgan Le Fay in the guise of a local tycoon's wife who immediately stirs up trouble in the village.
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(Traveling an ancient country road while running away to h...)
Traveling an ancient country road while running away to his grandmother, a young boy glimpses events in the road's past that help him cope with his problems of the present.
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(I have come backe to this towne. Thos. Kempe Bottles have...)
I have come backe to this towne. Thos. Kempe Bottles have been smashed, doors slammed and strange messages scrawled everywhere. And James is being blamed. It's not fair. Why won't his parents believe in ghosts? Because the ghost of Thomas Kempe is very real. And he's got it in for James..."A great year-round read". (The Independent).
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(In an England devoid of People a group of animal friends ...)
In an England devoid of People a group of animal friends embarks on a voyage to the London Zoo to learn the identity of one of their members who resembles People but is small and has fur.
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(People have evacuated the Earth and fled to Mars, leaving...)
People have evacuated the Earth and fled to Mars, leaving behind rubbish and animals. Five animal friends must strike off on a hazardous journey from the north of England to London with a curious animal named Stanley. Together they must find out what Stanley is and why he is so special.
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(Fanny is an extraordinary girl, not at all the demure, sp...)
Fanny is an extraordinary girl, not at all the demure, speak-only-when-spoken-to sort of girl she should be. After all, a girl living in the Victorian times does not have a mind of her own. And she most certainly does not have a burning ambition to study the fossils of prehistoric monsters.
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(Part of the BANANA BOOKS series, now available in a new f...)
Part of the BANANA BOOKS series, now available in a new format with a sewn binding designed for use in the classroom, a ghost story suitable for Key Stages 3 and 4. Illustrated by Frank Rodgers.
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(Yellow Bananas are captivating chapter books designed to ...)
Yellow Bananas are captivating chapter books designed to help young readers make the transition from storybooks to text-based books. The next level up from Blue Bananas, each book features short chapters, engaging full-color illustrations, and a strong story about interesting characters. As their reading abilities develop, kids will want to make the jump from Blue to Yellow Bananas! Peter wants to give his grandfather something special for his birthday--something different, something unusual. But when the ideal present hatches into dragons, Peter and his grandfather are in for more trouble than they could ever imagine.
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(Debbie has no end of trouble with a little red devil who ...)
Debbie has no end of trouble with a little red devil who thinks it's a great joke to cheat at every game they play. But Debbie likes to win as well, so she decides to trick him - using her own secret weapon!
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(A cat and a crow, who live together under a banyan tree, ...)
A cat and a crow, who live together under a banyan tree, explore their imaginations as they tell each other rich fantasies into which they are swept up to visit the mountains of the moon and travel at supersonic speed.
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(One morning, Joe wakes up to find two young grizzly bears...)
One morning, Joe wakes up to find two young grizzly bears in his bedroom. Throughout the day, all around the house, they play together - climbing trees in the hall, playing rough and tumble in the snow, playing on till the end of the day, till happy and tired Joe curls up in bed again.
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(One morning, Joe wakes up to find two young grizzly bears...)
One morning, Joe wakes up to find two young grizzly bears in his bedroom. Throughout the day, all around the house, they play together - climbing trees in the hall, playing rough and tumble in the snow, playing till the end of the day, till happy and tired Joe curls up in bed again.
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( The Martian's spaceship needs repairs, but when he retu...)
The Martian's spaceship needs repairs, but when he returns with the spanner he's borrowed from Peter and his gran, he finds he's been abandoned! Luckily, Gran and Peter take him in, and introduce him to life in the country. It's all going well until they take him to the village fete. Will the local villages see through the Martian's cunning disguise—and what will happen if they do?
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(A Martian Comes to Stay Peter è in vacanza dalla nonna, ...)
A Martian Comes to Stay Peter è in vacanza dalla nonna, in campagna, quando un marziano bussa alla porta per chiedere in prestito una chiave inglese: deve riparare l'astronave. Mentre Peter e la nonna gli procurano l'attrezzo senza battere ciglio, il disco volante riparte in tutta fretta, abbandonando il compagno a terra. Inizia così l'avventura con il nuovo, curioso ospite della nonna. Uninvited Ghosts La famiglia Brown ha appena cambiato casa, con tutto il trambusto e la confusione che ci si può immaginare: i fratelli Simon e Marian vengono spediti a letto presto, ma, appena spenta la luce nella nuova cameretta, ecco un fantasma far capolino dall'ultimo cassetto del comò. I ragazzi, sconvolti, corrono a chiamare la mamma, mentre il fantasma si piazza in poltrona canticchiando... I due racconti, in lingua originale, sono arricchiti da: • Glossari con la traduzione delle parole più interessanti o difficili; • Note su strutture della lingua, forme idiomatiche o familiari, registri espressivi, phrasal verbs...; • Reading Comprehension Exercises.
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( Matthew Halland is an architect, intimately involved wi...)
Matthew Halland is an architect, intimately involved with the new face of the city, while haunted by earlier times of destruction and loss in its history. Although he is divorced and lonely, Matthew has a rich and moving relationship with his daughter Jane. She offers a fresh perspective on love, loss, and even the city of London. Matthew becomes entangled with an array of fascinating characters, from Rutter, a corrupt real estate developer whose mafia-like ways disgust him, to Sarah Bridges, a romantic ray of hope who enters his life. Mathew’s relationships with Jane, Sarah, and Rutter allow his mind to rove freely as the past, present, and future interweave and he strives to look ahead and forge new beginnings of his own.. In Lively’s most ambitious novel, she has created a wonderfully rich and audacious confrontation with the mystery of London.
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(Treasures of Time is the twelfth novel by Booker Prize wi...)
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 others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. Penelope Lively's Treasures of Time was published in 1979, and is an acutely observed study of marriage and manipulation. When the BBC want to make a documentary about acclaimed archaeologist Hugh Paxton, his widow Laura, daughter Kate and her fiancé Tom are a little nervous: digging up the past can also disturb the present . . . Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her other books include Going Back; Judgement Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect Happiness; Passing On; City of the Mind; Cleopatra's Sister; Heat Wave; Beyond the Blue Mountains, a collection of short stories; Oleander, Jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in Egypt; Spiderweb; her autobiographical work, A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and How It All Began. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List, and DBE in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London.
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(Judgement Day is the third novel by Booker Prize winning ...)
Judgement Day is the third novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. Settled into the drowsy village life of Laddenham, where she is playing camp follower to her highly successful husband - clever, agnostic and interested - Clare Paling discovers that small communities offer interesting sideshows of adultery, gossip and carefully adhered to pecking orders. It takes the pageant celebrating the church's fourth centenary and an unpardonable death to remind Clare, who had almost forgotten, that the world is a very uncertain place. "Beautiful and brillliant". (Auberon Waugh). "I find Penelope Lively almost excessively gifted ...the most enjoyable novel I have read for a very long time indeed". (The Times). Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her other books include Going Back; Judgement Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect Happiness; Passing On; City of the Mind; Cleopatra's Sister; Heat Wave; Beyond the Blue Mountains, a collection of short stories; Oleander, Jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in Egypt; Spiderweb; her autobiographical work, A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and How It All Began. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List, and DBE in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London.
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(City of the Mind is the second novel by Booker Prize winn...)
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 his daughter Jane and the failed marriage that he has almost put behind him. Here too is the London of prehistory, of Georgian elegance, of the Blitz. But Matthew is occupied with constructing a new future for London in Docklands, and with it he begins to forge new beginnings of his own. 'A glorious novel' Observer 'The descriptions of the London Blitz are achingly real' Sunday Telegraph Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her other books include Going Back; Judgement Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect Happiness; Passing On; City of the Mind; Cleopatra's Sister; Heat Wave; Beyond the Blue Mountains, a collection of short stories; Oleander, Jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in Egypt; Spiderweb; her autobiographical work, A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and How It All Began. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List, and DBE in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London.
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(Spiderweb is the twelfth novel by Booker Prize winning au...)
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 has decided to root herself in Somerset landscape. But she finds that village society in England us far more chaotic, more unpredictable, and even more cruel, than she has known before. And that she cannot - or will not - conform to its rules. "She is a writer of great subtlety and understanding, and this is her best novel since Moon Tiger, which won the Booker Prize in 1987". (The Scotsman). "Evokes an escalating atmosphere of menace...Lively at her deceptively easy-to-read best". (Daily Mail). Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her other books include Going Back; Judgement Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect Happiness; Passing On; City of the Mind; Cleopatra's Sister; Heat Wave; Beyond the Blue Mountains, a collection of short stories; Oleander, Jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in Egypt; Spiderweb; her autobiographical work, A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and How It All Began. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List, and DBE in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London.
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("[In this] haunting new novel, the act of forgetting is a...)
"[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 Penelope Lively is renowned for her signature combination of silken storytelling and nuanced human insights. In Family Album, lively masterfully peels back one family's perfect façade to reveal the unsettling truths. All Alison ever wanted was to provide her six children with a blissful childhood. Its creation, however, became an obsession that involved Ingrid, the family au pair. As adults, Paul, Gina, Sandra, Katie, Roger, and Clare return to their family home and as mysteries begin to unravel, each must confront how the consequences of long-held secrets have shaped their lives.
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(Maria is always getting lost in the secret world of her i...)
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 thoughts. She talks to animals and objects, and generally prefers them to people. But whilst on holiday she begins to hear things that aren't there - a swing creaking, a dog barking - and when she sees a Victorian embroidered picture, Maria feels a strange connection with the ten-year-old, Harriet, who stitched it. But what happened to her? As Maria becomes more lost in Harriet's world, she grows convinced that something tragic occurred...Perfect for fans of ghostly mysteries like 'Tom's Midnight Garden'.
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(World War II turns the privileged lives of Jane and Edwar...)
World War II turns the privileged lives of Jane and Edward upside down. Left in the care of servants, they suddenly experience a whole new world - land-girls and concientious objectors. But their enchanted life is shattered when Edward is sent away to school.
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(Magazine, includes articles on Elegant Rosemaling Embroid...)
Magazine, includes articles on Elegant Rosemaling Embroidery, Heirloom Shaded Eylets, Free Bridal Gown Pattern for a Porcelain Doll, Silk Ribbon Embroidery,
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( After sixteen years on the lam, infamous Boston gangste...)
After sixteen years on the lam, infamous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger was finally captured and brought to trial-and what a trial it was: evidence of nineteen gruesome murders, government secrets, FBI corruption, a dead witness, and an unbelievable tale of love. Whitey's machine guns and gangland-style extortions gripped the city of Boston for decades. Investigative journalist Jon Leiberman travelled the world with the FBI's Whitey Bulger task force. Former Boston area prosecutor and legal analyst Margaret McLean witnessed every day of testimony, heard every word uttered in court. Both authors have developed close relationships with the investigators, the lawyers, and Whitey's friends, his fellow mobsters, his victims and their families. In Whitey on Trial, the truth is revealed through trial testimony, interviews with cops, FBI agents, prosecutors and defense attorneys, and members of the jury that ultimately found Bulger guilty on thirty-one counts, including eleven murders. An exclusive letter from Whitey to McLean offers insight into his state of mind immediately following the verdict. Whitey on Trial is the definitive firsthand account of the Whitey Bulger trial.
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( After sixteen years on the lam, infamous Boston gangste...)
After sixteen years on the lam, infamous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger was finally captured and brought to trial-and what a trial it was: evidence of nineteen gruesome murders, government secrets, FBI corruption, a dead witness, and an unbelievable tale of love. Whitey's machine guns and gangland-style extortions gripped the city of Boston for decades. Investigative journalist Jon Leiberman travelled the world with the FBI's Whitey Bulger task force. Former Boston area prosecutor and legal analyst Margaret McLean witnessed every day of testimony, heard every word uttered in court. Both authors have developed close relationships with the investigators, the lawyers, and Whitey's friends, his fellow mobsters, his victims and their families. In Whitey on Trial, the truth is revealed through trial testimony, interviews with cops, FBI agents, prosecutors and defense attorneys, and members of the jury that ultimately found Bulger guilty on thirty-one counts, including eleven murders. An exclusive letter from Whitey to McLean offers insight into his state of mind immediately following the verdict. Whitey on Trial is the definitive firsthand account of the Whitey Bulger trial.
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(The 39 Clues Books 1-11 series one: #1 The Maze of Bones ...)
The 39 Clues Books 1-11 series one: #1 The Maze of Bones - #2 One False Note - #3 The Sword Thief - #4 Beyond The Grave - #5 The Black Circle - #6 In Too Deep - #7 The Viper's Nest - #8 The Emperor's Code -#9 Storm Warning - #10 Into the Gauntlet -#11 Vespers Rising - First card pack includes 16 game cards and clue finder guide for books 1, 2, and 3. Second card pack includes 16 game cards and clue finder guide for books 4, 5, and 6. Third card pack includes 16 game cards and clue finder guide for books 7 and 8. Total of 114 game cards.
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(Published in Penguin Modern Classics, Penelope Lively's H...)
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 lengths to which a mother will go to protect the ones she loves. Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her daughter Teresa and baby grandson Luke; and, of course, Maurice, the man Teresa married. As the hot months unfold, Maurice grows ever more involved in the book he is writing - and with his female copy editor - and Pauline can only watch in dismay and anger as her daughter repeats her own mistakes in love. The heat and tension will lead to a violent, startling climax. Penelope Lively (b. 1933) was born in Cairo. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her novels include Passing On, City of the Mind, Cleopatra's Sister and Heat Wave, and many are published by Penguin. If you enjoyed Heat Wave, you might like Lively's Moon Tiger, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Extraordinarily good, intelligent and perceptive ... very moving' Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black '[Heat Wave is] short, but the emotions are so intense and the writing so good that it punches well above its weight' Independent
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Lively, Penelope Margaret was born on March 17, 1933 in Cairo. Daughter of Roger Vincent Low and Vera Mary (Reckitt) Greer.
Bachelor in Modern History, with honors, St Anne's College, Oxford University, England, 1955. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Tufts University, Massachusetts, 1992. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Warwick University, 1998.
(The 39 Clues Books 1-11 series one: #1 The Maze of Bones ...)
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( After sixteen years on the lam, infamous Boston gangste...)
( The Martian's spaceship needs repairs, but when he retu...)
(A cat and a crow, who live together under a banyan tree, ...)
(Published in Penguin Modern Classics, Penelope Lively's H...)
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Author: (novels) The Road to Lichfield, 1977, Nothing Missing but the Samovar, 1978 (Southern Arts Literature prize, 1978), Treasures of Time, 1979 (National Book award, Arts Council Great Britain, 1979), Judgement Day, 1980, Next to Nature, Art, 1982, Perfect Happiness, 1983, Corruption, 1984, According to Mark, 1984, Pack of Cards, 1986, Moon Tiger, 1987 (Man Booker prize for Fiction, 1987), Passing On, 1989, City of the Mind, 1991, Cleopatra's Sister, 1993, Heat Wave, 1996, Spiderweb, 1998, The Photograph, 2003, Making it up, 2005, Consequences, 2007, Family Album, 2009, (non-fiction) The Presence of the Past: An Introduction to Landscape History, 1976, Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived, 1994, A House Unlocked, 2001, (children'd fiction) Astercote, 1970, The Whispering Knights, 1971, The Driftway, 1972, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, 1973 (Carnegie Medal in Literature, 1973), The House in Norham Gardens, 1974, Going Back, 1975, Boy Without a Name, 1975, A Stitch in Time, 1976 (Whitbread Children's Book award, 1976), The Stained Glass Window, 1976, Fanny's Sister, 1976, The Voyage of QV66, 1978, Fanny and the Monsters, 1978, Fanny and the Battle of Potter's Piece, 1980, The Revenge of Samuel Stokes, 1981, Uninvited Ghosts and Other Stories, 1984, Dragon Trouble, 1984, Debbie and the Little Devil, 1987, A House Inside Out, 1987, Princess by Mistake, 1993, Judy and the Martian, 1993, The Cat, the Crow and the Banyan Tree, 1994, Good Night, Sleep Tight, 1995, Two Bears and Joe, 1995, Staying with Grandpa, 1995, A Martian Comes to Stay, 1995, Lost Dpg, 1996, One, Two, Three. Jump!, 1998, The House in Norham Gardens, 2004.
Vice president Friends of the British Library. Fellow: Royal Society Literature (council member 1987-1990). Member: Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Society Authors (executive committee 1983-1985, chairman 1989-1991).
Gardening, landscape history, talking, listening.
Married Jack Lively, 1957 (deceased 1998). Children: Josephine, Adam.