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Moon Tiger

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"A powerful, moving and beautifully wrought novel about the ways in which lives are molded by personal memory and the collective past." — The Boston GlobeWinner of the Man Booker PrizeElderly, uncompromising Claudia Hampton lies in a London hospital bed with memories of life fluttering through her fading consciousness. An author of popular history, Claudia proclaims she's carrying out her last ... Read more

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"A powerful, moving and beautifully wrought novel about the ways in which lives are molded by personal memory and the collective past." — The Boston GlobeWinner of the Man Booker PrizeElderly, uncompromising Claudia Hampton lies in a London hospital bed with memories of life fluttering through her fading consciousness. An author of popular history, Claudia proclaims she's carrying out her last
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Moon Tiger

Winner of the Booker Prize

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THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING, GOLDEN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED CLASSIC, NOW WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ELIF SHAFAKClaudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. ... Read more

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THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING, GOLDEN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED CLASSIC, NOW WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ELIF SHAFAKClaudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond.
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Judgment Day

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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 Laddenham, a sleepy village enlivened only by sideshows of adultery and gossip. An avowed agnostic, Clare is nonetheless caught up in the restoration of the church, ... Read more

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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 Laddenham, a sleepy village enlivened only by sideshows of adultery and gossip. An avowed agnostic, Clare is nonetheless caught up in the restoration of the church,
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City of the Mind

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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, and decay, and construction.In London's changing heartland, architect Matthew Halland can't help but contemplate how the past and the present blend. It stirs memories of his ... Read more

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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, and decay, and construction.In London's changing heartland, architect Matthew Halland can't help but contemplate how the past and the present blend. It stirs memories of his
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A House Unlocked

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This "interesting and perceptive" memoir recalls the familial country house the author's grandparents bought in 1923 ( The Washington Post Book World).The only child of divorced parents, Penelope Lively was often sent to stay at her grandparents' country house, Golsoncott. Long after the house was sold out of the family, she begins to piece together the lives of those she knew fifty years before ... Read more

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This "interesting and perceptive" memoir recalls the familial country house the author's grandparents bought in 1923 ( The Washington Post Book World).The only child of divorced parents, Penelope Lively was often sent to stay at her grandparents' country house, Golsoncott. Long after the house was sold out of the family, she begins to piece together the lives of those she knew fifty years before
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Judgement Day

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Judgement Day is the third novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.Settled into the drowsy village life of Laddenham, where she is playing camp follower to her highly successful husband - clever, agnostic and interested - Clare Paling discovers that small communities offer interesting sideshows of adultery, gossip and carefully adhered to pecking orders.It takes the pageant ... Read more

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Judgement Day is the third novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.Settled into the drowsy village life of Laddenham, where she is playing camp follower to her highly successful husband - clever, agnostic and interested - Clare Paling discovers that small communities offer interesting sideshows of adultery, gossip and carefully adhered to pecking orders.It takes the pageant
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Moon Tiger

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Series series Penguin Modern Classics
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE**Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia's life is entwined with others and she must allow ... Read more

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE**Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia's life is entwined with others and she must allow
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The Road To Lichfield

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The Road to Lichfield is the Booker Prize shortlisted first novel by Penelope Lively.Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father's house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she shares his last weeks she meets David Fielding, and the love they share brings her feelings into sharp focus. Deeply felt, beautifully controlled, The Road to Lichfield ... Read more

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The Road to Lichfield is the Booker Prize shortlisted first novel by Penelope Lively.Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father's house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she shares his last weeks she meets David Fielding, and the love they share brings her feelings into sharp focus. Deeply felt, beautifully controlled, The Road to Lichfield
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The Photograph

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**"One of Britain's most talented and experienced writers. The closer you look the more mystery you see." --The Times (London)A seductive and hugely suspenseful novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively, about what can happen when you look too closely into the past**Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen before. Taken in ... Read more

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**"One of Britain's most talented and experienced writers. The closer you look the more mystery you see." --The Times (London)A seductive and hugely suspenseful novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively, about what can happen when you look too closely into the past**Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen before. Taken in
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Perfect Happiness

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Perfect Happiness is the fifth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.Frances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband Steve has died leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. At first she is completely submerged in her own loss until, shocked into feeling by the unexpected revelations and private sufferings of others, she ... Read more

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Perfect Happiness is the fifth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.Frances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband Steve has died leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. At first she is completely submerged in her own loss until, shocked into feeling by the unexpected revelations and private sufferings of others, she
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Dancing Fish and Ammonites

A Memoir

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The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing“The memory that we live with . . . is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is our ID; this is how we know who we are and where we have been.”Memory and history have been Penelope Lively’s terrain in fiction over a career that has spanned five decades. But ... Read more

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The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing“The memory that we live with . . . is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is our ID; this is how we know who we are and where we have been.”Memory and history have been Penelope Lively’s terrain in fiction over a career that has spanned five decades. But
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Spiderweb

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Spiderweb is the twelfth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.Stella Brentwood has led an exotic life for a woman of her time. Her frivolous best friend at Oxford, Nadine, knew early what she wanted: marriage and children. Stella, too, has had her share of passion, but her work as an anthropologist - always the outsider, the observer, was her priority.Now she has decided to root ... Read more

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Spiderweb is the twelfth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.Stella Brentwood has led an exotic life for a woman of her time. Her frivolous best friend at Oxford, Nadine, knew early what she wanted: marriage and children. Stella, too, has had her share of passion, but her work as an anthropologist - always the outsider, the observer, was her priority.Now she has decided to root
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