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Making It Up by Penelope Lively
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Story-telling is an ingrained habit; I wouldn't know what else to do. But the mythology that is intriguing today is that of imagined alternatives. Somehow, choice and contingency have landed you where you are, as the person that you are, and the whole process seems so precarious that you look back at t ...Show more
Metamorphosis by Penelope Lively
26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
An exquisite selection of the best short stories from one of our best loved writersWry, 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 old, chance encounters and life-long ...Show more
Metamorphosis - Selected Stories by Penelope Lively
50.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
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; Anthony Thwaite (Introduction by)
28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Winner of the Man Booker Prize and Shortlisted for the Golden 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 ...Show more
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively
16.99 NZD
18.99 (10% off)
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: very good
James' family has moved to a new cottage - with grounds that are great for excavations, and trees that are perfect for climbing - and stuff is happening. Stuff that is normally the kind of thing he does. And he's getting blamed for it. But it's not him who's writing strange things on shopping lists and ...Show more
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively
24.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Heritage Collection
James is fed up. His family has moved to a new cottage - with grounds that are great for excavations, and trees that are perfect for climbing - and stuff is happening. Stuff that is normally the kind of thing he does. And he's getting blamed for it. But it's not him who's writing strange things on shopp ...Show more
The Photograph by Penelope Lively
25.00 NZD
28.00 (10% off)
Category: Fiction
One day, whilst searching in a cupboard, Glyn finds a sealed envelope with the words 'Don't Open - Destroy' scrawled on it by his wife, Kath. Compelled by curiosity to ignore her instruction, he breaks the seal to find a photograph showing Kath holding hands with another man. Suddenly this one act of be ...Show more
Yellow Bananas : Dragon Trouble by Penelope Lively Illustrated by Andrew Rowland
12.99 NZD
13.99 (7% off)
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Yellow bananas | Reading Level: 7-11
Peter's present for his grandfathr hatches into something unexpected. A chapter book for newly fluent readers.