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Penelope Lively's new novel, FAMILY ALBUM, will be published by Penguin/Fig Tree in early August. She will be talking about it at the "Ways with Words" Literary Festival at Dartington on July 18th. see cover in detail

Her previous novel, CONSEQUENCES, was published in June 2007. more . . . . .
Penelope Lively's previous book, MAKING IT UP, was published on July 29th 2005. This work of fiction is a form of anti-memoir, in which she imagines some of the alternative outcomes, had she gone down a different road at crucial points in her life. A ship travelling to Cape Town during the second world war, an archeological dig in the nineteen seventies, Cairo in the early fifties - these are some of the roads not taken, through which winds the thread of what really happened.more . . . . .

Penguin Classics published MOON TIGER and OLEANDER, JACARANDRA in paperback in 2006
read the reviews of her previous book, The Photograph

Biographical notes
Penelope Lively was born in Cairo, Egypt and spent her childhood there. She came to England at the age of twelve, in 1945, and went to boarding school in Sussex. She subsequently read Modern History at St. Anne's College, Oxford. In 1957 she married Jack Lively (who died in 1998). They had two children, Josephine and Adam. Jack Lively's academic career took the family from Swansea to Sussex and Oxford, and eventually to Warwick University, where he was Professor of Politics. Penelope Lively now has six grandchildren and lives in London.

Literary awards
TREASURES OF TIME, Arts Council National Book Award
NOTHING MISSING BUT THE SAMOVAR, Southern Arts Literature Prize
THE ROAD TO LICHFIELD, shortlisted for the Booker Prize
ACCORDING TO MARK, shortlisted for the Booker Prize
THE GHOST OF THOMAS KEMPE, Carnegie Medal
A STITCH IN TIME, Whitbread Award
MOON TIGER, Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Whitbread Award

Many of Penelope Lively's books are translated into several foreign languages.

Short stories have appeared in Encounter, The Literary Review, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Options, The Observer, Woman's Own and other magazines including foreign periodicals. A number have also been read on the BBC and on Australian Radio.

Penelope Lively has reviewed regularly and written articles for Encounter, the Sunday and the Daily Telegraph, the Independent, the Times, the Sunday Times, the Observer, the New York Times, Books and Bookmen, The Literary Review, The Times Educational Supplement, the Standard and other journals and newspapers. She has also written radio and TV scripts; and acted as presenter for a Radio 4 programme on children's literature.

Penelope lively is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a member of PEN and the Society of Authors, of which she is a former chairman. She is a former member of the Arts Council Literature Panel and of the Board of the British Library. She has been a member of the Board of the British Council and of the Council of Goldsmiths College. Awarded the OBE in 1989 and CBE in 2002, Hon. D.Litt., Tufts University, Mass., 1992, Hon. D.Litt. Warwick University 1998

Books by Penelope Lively Use these links if you would like to see some reviews or to buy some of Penelope Lively's books.


Fiction
THE ROAD TO LICHFIELD, 1977
NOTHING MISSING BUT THE SAMOVAR, and other stories, 1978
TREASURES OF TIME, 1979
JUDGEMENT DAY, 1980
NEXT TO NATURE, ART, 1982
PERFECT HAPPINESS, 1983
CORRUPTION, and other stories, 1984
ACCORDING TO MARK, 1984
 PACK OF CARDS, STORIES 1978-86, 1986
MOON TIGER, 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

Non -fiction
The PRESENCE OF THE PAST: An introduction to landscape history, 1976 OLEANDER, JACARANDA: A CHILDHOOD PERCEIVED, 1994
A HOUSE UNLOCKED, 2001

Children's books
ASTERCOTE, 1970
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
A STITCH IN TIME, 1976
THE VOYAGE OF QV66, 1978
THE REVENGE OF SAMUEL STOKES, 1981
THE STAINED GLASS WINDOW, 1976
BOY WITHOUT A NAME, 1975
FANNY'S SISTER, 1976
FANNY AND THE MONSTERS, 1978
FANNY AND THE BATTLE OF POTTER'S PIECE, 1980		 FANNY AND THE MONSTERS (three Fanny stories), 1983
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, 1 994
GOOD NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT, 1995
TWO BEARS AND JOE, 1995
STAYING WITH GRANDPA, 1995
A MARTIAN COMES TO STAY, 1995
LOST DOG, 1996
ONE, TWO, THREE . . . JUMP, 1998

Introductions
To Ivy Compton-Burnett: Manservant and Maidservant, Oxford University Press 1987
To Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Father and his Fate, Oxford University Press 1984
To Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence, Virago 1988
To Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Everyman 1993
To Willa Cather: My Antonia, Everyman 1996
To The Mythical Quest, The British Library 1996

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Spiderweb
Heat Wave
City of the Mind

Other books by Penelope Lively
Moon Tiger
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Oleander, Jacaranda: a Childhood Perceived

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