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A Stitch in Time (Essential Modern Classics) by Penelope Lively
17.50 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction
Essential Modern Classics are relaunched in gorgeous new covers bringing these timeless story to a new generation. 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 swin ...Show more
Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time by Penelope Lively
26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
In this powerful and compelling 'view from old age', Penelope Lively, at eighty, reports back on what she finds. There are meditations on what it is like to be old as well as on how memory shapes us. There are intriguing examinations of key personal as well as historical moments she has lived through an ...Show more
Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively
40.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
**A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 2017**'Rich and unusual, this is a book to treasure' Alex Preston, ObserverPenelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmother's ...Show more
Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively
28.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
**A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 2017** 'Rich and unusual, this is a book to treasure' Alex Preston, Observer Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmother ...Show more
Metamorphosis - Selected Stories by Penelope Lively
50.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The definitive selection of short stories from one of our greatest living writers, curated by Penelope Lively herself Wry, compassionate, and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's stories get beneath the everyday to the beating heart of human experience. In intimate stories of growing up and growing ol ...Show more
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'I'm writing a history of the world,' she says . . . And in the process, my own.' Claudia Hampton is dying. A professional historian in her seventies, she casts her mind back through her own life to identify the currents and winds upon which she has been cast adrift. We see how this strong, independent ...Show more
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