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Penelope Lively

December 2021

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    The books of my life
    Penelope Lively: ‘Beatrix Potter seemed so exotic, unlike my world of palm trees’

    The author on reading Peter Rabbit in Egypt, the allure of Lawrence Durrell – and the humour of Stella Gibbons

October 2021

  • Selma Blair wearing a jumpsuit by Alexandre Vauthier and shoes by Stuart Weitzman.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

  • The Observer Books<br>Author Penelope Lively photographed at home in London.

    Books interview
    Penelope Lively: ‘I was a traumatised teenager’

April 2020

  • The Booker prize-winning novelist Penelope Lively at the Oxford Literary festival in 2018.

    Tolstoy, Steinbeck, Defoe – why are so many turning to classic novels?

    As sales of literary heavyweights soar, Booker winner Penelope Lively says that getting lost in a good book is now more relevant than it has ever been

September 2019

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    Books that made me
    Lemn Sissay: ‘My guilty pleasure is Lee Child’s Jack Reacher – no more films, OK?

    The author and poet on what he learned from Malcolm X, Ladybird books and the exciting movement in African sci-fi

August 2019

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    The Guardian Books podcast
    Does 'the English canon' still shape what we read? – books podcast

    Writers including Penelope Lively, Caryl Philips, Howard Jacobson and Yomi Sode explore how this idea has changed over time

December 2018

  • .<br>Penelope Lively Writer 01-11-2016 Photograph by Martin Godwin

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Penelope Lively on MR James' Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad – books podcast

    You’ll never sleep in a twin bedroom again after hearing this classic Edwardian ghost story, selected by Penelope Lively and read by Simon Callow as part of our seasonal series of short stories selected by leading novelists

August 2018

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    Culture webchats
    Penelope Lively webchat: on Egypt, Englishness and her first memory

    The acclaimed author answered your questions about her Booker prize-winning novel Moon Tiger, the state of children’s literature and more

July 2018

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    Reading group
    The unfilmable brilliance of Moon Tiger

    Penelope Lively’s novel defeated even Harold Pinter’s attempts to write a screenplay, and it’s not just the narrator’s voice that a camera couldn’t capture
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    Reading group
    Moon Tiger: ferociously complicated – and fantastically readable

    Penelope Lively’s title takes its name from a brand of mosquito coil, which also suggests its circling narrative and the spiralling nature of memory
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    Reading group
    Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger is our reading group choice for July

    Whether it wins this month’s Golden Man Booker prize remains to be seen, but the popular vote here has gone to an underrated classic

June 2018

  • Clockwise from top left: Hilary Mantel, Marlon James, Anne Enright, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood and Julian Barnes.

    What it is like to win the Booker prize, by Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel, Peter Carey and more

  • Penelope Lively.

    Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively review – a rewarding, evocative ramble

May 2018

  • Michael Ondaatje

    Hits and surprises as judges reveal the Man Booker’s shortlist of five golden decades

    Mantel and Ondaatje are in but Rushdie’s out as judges name shortlist for public vote on best novel

December 2017

  • Penelope Lively

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Penelope Lively on MR James's Oh Whistle and I'll Come to you, my lad - short story podcast

    You’ll never sleep in a twin bedroom again after hearing this classic Edwardian ghost story, selected by Penelope Lively read by Simon Callow
  • From left, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Toni Morrison, Kit de Waal, Anne Enright and Flann O’Brien.

    'Women are better writers than men': novelist John Boyne sets the record straight

    Male authors are always pronouncing their own brilliance – or boasting about not reading books by women. So, after a lifetime spent writing and attending literary festivals, John Boyne would like to get something off his chest …
  • .<br>Penelope Lively Writer 01-11-2016 Photograph by Martin Godwin

    Books that made me
    Penelope Lively: my debt to roasted grasshopper with ladybird sauce

    The Booker prizewinner on why Beatrix Potter influenced her writing and how she was defeated by one of the greatest novels of the 20th century

October 2017

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    Book of the day
    Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively review – green fingers, silver trowels

    Despite its strong focus on gardeners from the upper classes, Penelope Lively’s horticultural memoir is a book to treasure

September 2017

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    My writing day
    Penelope Lively: ‘One of the pleasures of old age is the thought that I shall never see Heathrow again’

    The Booker prizewinning novelist tries to fit in a couple of hours of writing a day, but she no longer feels guilty if she would rather be in the garden

January 2017

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    Critical eye
    Book reviews roundup: Days Without End; The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories; The Descent of Man

    What the critics thought of Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End, Penelope Lively’s The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories and Grayson Perry’s The Descent of Man
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