Mark Lamming tiene una vida perfecta. Afamado escritor de biografías literarias, está felizmente casado con Diana, una galerista de arte. Ahora investiga la vida de Gilbert Strong, escritor, ensayista y dramaturgo, y sus pesquisas le llevan...
¿Fue antes la escritora o el jardín? Penelope Lively se embarca en un fascinante viaje a través de los jardines que han marcado su vida. Desde el gran jardín de la casa en la que se crio, en El Cairo, hasta el que tenía...
A los setenta y seis años, Claudia Hampton, una historiadora heterodoxa que ha escrito algunos libros de gran éxito de público, está muriéndose en un hospital londinense. En la neblina de su conciencia destellan aú...
Guanyadora del prestigiós premi Man Booker l?any 1987, i més recentment del Golden Man Booker al millor llibre premiat de la dècada dels vuitanta, Moon Tiger és una novel·la deliciosa i sofisticada que narra la vida de...
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's garden in a sloping Somerset field, then two successive...
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.
When . . Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece Marion has to go instead, which means she sends a text to her lover which is intercepted by his wife, which...
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.
In 1935 privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a pennyless and bohemian artist Matt she abandons her stuffy Kensington existence in London and moves to a rustic cottage in Somerset. A baby Molly is born but the coming war takes...
A seductive and hugely suspenseful novel about what can happen when you look too closely into the past; The Photograph is the thirteenth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.
Penelope Lively's Booker Prize-winning novel weaves an exquisite mesh of memories, flashbacks and shifting voices, in a haunting story of loss and desire.
'I don't know that you have done anything wrong,' Miss Hepplewhite said. 'But it is possible that you have done something rather dangerous.' William and Susie thought they were just playing a game when they cooked a witch's brew...
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...