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Results for 'penelope lively'
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Heat Wave
Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her daughter Teresa and baby grandson Luke; and, of course, Maurice, the man Teresa married. As the hot months unfold, Maurice grows ever more involved in the book he is writing.
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The Beautiful Summer
An astonishing portrait of an innocent on the verge of discovering the cruelties of love... an inimitable read... there are whispers here of the future work of Elena Ferrante
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Ammonites and Leaping Fish
A Life in TimeFascinating, lucid . . . Authority, yes; and wit, thoughtfulness, a tender attention to the natural world, an incisive but deeply humane imagination: Ammonites and Leaping Fish is full of all of these
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Moon Tiger
Leaves its traces in the air long after you've put it away
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Summer
Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth, perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Summer and The Age of Innocence. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in 1937.
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Hidden Lives
A Family MemoirMargaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a visit shortly before her death? The search for answers took Margaret on a journey into her family's past. This is a memoir on how women's lives have changed over the century.
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Moon Tiger (Spanish Edition)
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A Stitch in Time
A rediscovered children's classic, winner of the 1976 Whitbread Award, from the Booker Prize and Carnegie Medal-winning author of Moon Tiger and The Ghost of Thomas Kempe.
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Moon Tiger
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Un posto perfetto
Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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The Haunted Library
Tales of Cursed Books and Forbidden ShelvesA popular anthology published in 2016 before the launch of the British Library Tales of the Weird rejoins the series with new material included. Featuring stone-cold classics from M. R. James and Margaret Irwin alongside rare items from the labyrinthine basements of the British Library collections.
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The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
'A mischievous boy hero and an equally amusing ghoul,’ Guardian An iconic ghost story for children from Penelope Lively, one of the modern greats of British fiction.
€ 12,50