New Releases by Penelope Lively

Relates the adventures of a variety of creatures--mice, spiders, pill bugs--that live, seen and unseen, in the nooks and crannies of an ordinary house.

The revival of an ancient dance in an English village stirs up legendary unseen evil spirits which terrify a girl and her friend.

En forfatter, som skriver på en biografi over en berømt engelsk litterat, forelsker sig hovedkulds i hans barnebarn, men vender efter en kort hektisk sommer tilbage til sit trygge ægteskab

With its feast of characters, moods and settings this collection of stories shows Penelope Lively at her most inventive. The eleven stories offer a wry, gentle, exquisitely observed view of paradise lost. A safe and summery world grows suddenly unreliable. Passion cools. Reality intrudes upon the idyll. Nothing and no one are quite as they appear to be.

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 is a subtle exploration of memory and identity, of chance and consequence, of the intricate weave of generations across a past never fully known, and a future never fully anticipated. ''A searing study of the peculiar state of being in love . . . there are few contemporary novelists to match her on this subject'' Sunday Telegraph

Set in Framleigh Creative Study Centre where eleven people are in residence to fulfil their artistic potential. When they find themselves without any domestic staff, their dreams of creative bliss are overcome by everyday life again.

When the BBC plans a programme on the dig which made archaeologist Hugh Paxton famous, a host of memories are disinterred, and lives disrupted. Kate adored her father and considers the TV scheme an intrusion. Laura Paxton, lonely and bored, is delighted at the prospect of being seen as the charming widow of a distinguished scholar. A cynical on-looker to the filming is Tom Rider, Kate''s fiance. While completing his thesis on an 18th century antiquarian, Tom observes the perplexities of being English and the parasitism of making a living out of the past. For Paxton''s family and colleagues, the site, a Neolithic barrow, becomes the focus for recollections as selective as the filming which will in turn distort the Wiltshire scenery.

In an England devoid of People a group of animal friends embarks on a voyage to the London Zoo to learn the identity of one of their members who resembles People but is small and has fur.

De tienjarige James gaat met zijn ouders wonen in een eeuwenoud huis waar het blijkt te spoken. De geest is de vroegere apotheker-wonderdoener Thomas Kempe die James als zijn leerling beschouwt.

Traveling an ancient country road while running away to his grandmother, a young boy glimpses events in the road''s past that help him cope with his problems of the present.

Three children concoct a witch''s brew that conjures up Morgan Le Fay in the guise of a local tycoon''s wife who immediately stirs up trouble in the village.