Penelope Lively

Penelope Lively is a well-known and prolific contemporary British writer. She was born in 1933 in Cairo, Egypt, where she spent her childhood. She moved to England with her family when she was twelve in 1945 where she has lived since then. Lively read Modern History at Oxford, married and had two children. She published her first novel for adults when she was forty-four years old and it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Penelope Lively has published a good number of fiction books for children and adults, collections of short stories and non-fiction books. She was awarded the Booker Prize for her novel Moon Tiger in 1989.

Official website: http://www.penelopelively.net/

Interview with Penelope Lively: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/05/penelope-lively-old-age

Fiction for adults

How It All Began (2011)

Family Album (2009)

Consequences (2007)

Making it up (2005)

The Photograph (2003)

Spiderweb (1998)

Heat Wave (1996)

Cleopatra's Sister (1993)

City of the Mind (1991)

Passing On (1989)

Moon Tiger (1987)

Pack of Cards, Stories (1986)

According to Mark (1984)

Corruption, and other stories (1984)

Perfect Happiness (1983)

Next to Nature, Art (1982)

Judgement Day (1980)

Treasures of Time (1979)

Nothing Missing but the Samovar, and other stories (1978)

The Road to Lichfield (1977)