Penelope Lively

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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1972
  • Latest Book:
    October 2021
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Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • The Driftway

  • Going back

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  • Boy Without a Name

  • Whispering Knights

  • Treasures of Time

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    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 b...

  • The Road to Lichfield

    A Man Booker Prize"shortlisted first novel and a “searing study of the peculiar state of being in love” (The Sunday Telegraph).   In The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively explores the nature of history and memory as it is embodied in the ...

  • Perfect Happiness

  • Uninvited Ghosts

  • According to Mark

    Mark Lamming is happily married--until he falls for the lovely daughter of his latest biography subject. Nothing can prepare him for the ensuing circumstances in this witty novel of memory and expectations....



  • The Wild Hunt of the Ghost Hounds

    Solve the riddles to find the runaway gingerbread men in this funny and magical cookie hunt Marshall knows one thing for sure, despite what all the stories say: Gingerbread men cannot run. Cookies are for eating, and he can't wait to eat "his "afte...

  • The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

    The classic ghost story from Penelope Lively, one of the modern greats of British fiction for adults and children alike.When James'' family moves to a ancient cottage in Oxfordshire (with grounds that are great for excavations and trees that are perf...

  • Moon Tiger

    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 h...

  • Pack of Cards

    An “abundantly rich collection” of short stories by the Man Booker Prize"winning author (The New York Times Book Review).   In Pack of Cards, Penelope Lively shares moments in the everyday world that are not always open to observation, as ...

  • Judgment Day

    This “beautiful and brilliant novel” follows an agnostic woman’s relationship with a religious village’s people and its past (Auberon Waugh).  Judgment Day takes us into the life of Clare Paling, who has just moved with her family to Lad...

  • Passing On

    The Man Booker Prize"winning author “charts the efforts of a middle-aged brother and sister to begin a new life after their tyrannical mother’s death” (The New York Times).   In Passing On, “the richest and most rewarding of her novels...

  • City of the Mind

    A “well crafted . . . fascinating” story of a London architect’s struggle for identity in love and career (Time Out).  This is the city in which everything is simultaneous. There is no yesterday, nor tomorrow, merely weather...

  • Cleopatra's Sister

    A palaeontologist by choice-and perhaps due to the accidental discovery of a fossil fragment on the north coast of England when he was six years old-Howard Beamish is flying to Nairobi on a professional mission when his plane is forced to land in an ...

  • The Cat, the Crow and the 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....

  • Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived



  • Good Night, Sleep Tight

  • Heat Wave

    It is a long, hot summer at World's End, a two-family grey stone cottage in the English countryside. Pauline is editing a romance novel in the smaller dwelling, and the larger part is occupied by her daughter, Teresa; Teresa's baby; and her husband, ...

  • Beyond the Blue Mountains

  • Spiderweb

    All her life Stella Brentwood has considered herself a bird of passage. As an anthropologist she studied social networks - in the villages of the Nile Delta, Greece and Malta, and the community of an Orkney island. She has known love, but she remains...

  • Two Bears and Joe

    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 ...

  • The House in Norham Gardens

  • A Martian Comes to Stay

    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 ...

  • A Martian in the Supermarket

    Judy first sees the Martian when her mom's looking for fish fingers. She isn't scared, but he's a bit nervous. His rocket's engine won't start, so Judy takes him back to her house while they think of a plan. They soon become good friends, and avoid d...

  • Dragon Trouble

    Based on the Yellow Bananas series, this resource for teachers helps reinforce and enhance what students learn in their core reading program through engaging activities that focus on reading skills. Teachers will find: - activities that highlight the...

  • The Photograph

    It opens with a snapshot: Kath, at an unknown gathering, hands clasped with a man not her husband. The photograph is in an envelope marked DON'T OPEN -- DESTROY. But Kath's husband does not heed the warning. The mystery of the photograph, and of Kath...



  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears

    A retelling of the traditional children's tale. Goldilocks is walking through the woods when she comes across a cottage. She lets herself in to explore and causes chaos. Will the three bears come home and find her?...

  • Making It Up

    Look out for Penelope Lively’s new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories.Hailed by critics as a benchmark in a career full of award-winning achievements, Making It Up is Penelope Lively's answer to the oft-asked question, "How much of what y...

  • In Search of a Homeland

    The fall of Troy, the wanderings of Aeneas, the descent into the underworld -- these phrases from Virgil?s seminal story continue to resonate more than 2,000 years after he wrote it, and Penelope Lively retells this timeless tale with pitch-perfec...

  • Consequences

    A chance meeting in St. James's Park begins young Lorna and Matt's intense relationship. Wholly in love, they leave London for a cottage in a rural Somerset village. Their intimate life together--Matt's woodcarving, Lorna's self-discovery, their new ...

  • Family Album

    "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

    Look out for Penelope Lively’s new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories.

    Pene...

  • A Stitch in Time

    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 ob...

  • How It All Began

    A vibrant new novel from Penelope Lively-a wry, wise story about the surprising ways lives intersect. When Charlotte Rainsford, a retired schoolteacher, is accosted by a petty thief on a London street, the consequences ripple across the lives of a...

  • Next to Nature, Art

  • Abroad

    A brilliantly funny original short story from Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.'Anyone artistic needed Abroad in the 1950s.'Paul and his girlfriend are artists in need of subject matter. Arresting, evocative subject matter. So they decide ...

  • The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories

    In such acclaimed novels as The Photograph, Family Album, and How It All Began, Penelope Lively has captivated readers with her singular blend of wisdom, elegance, and humor. Now, in her first story collection in decades, Lively takes up themes of hi...



  • Life in the Garden

    From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and lifePenelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening in this philosop...

  • Metamorphosis

  • Fanny And The Monsters

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    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 s...

  • The Revenge of Samuel Stokes

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  • The Voyage of QV66

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    Penelope Livelys amazing animal odyssey follows a group of seven animals, including Stanley, as they explore a flooded, people-less world on board QV66 and search for another animal like Stanley. Age 9+...

  • The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy

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Award-Winning Books by Penelope Lively

Moon Tiger
1987 Man Booker Prize -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Penelope Lively has published 45 books.

Penelope Lively does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Metamorphosis, was published in October 2021.

The first book by Penelope Lively, The Driftway, was published in January 1972.

No. Penelope Lively does not write books in series.
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