Penelope Lively, author portrait
© Robin Matthews

Penelope Lively

Penelope Lively’s adult novel Moon Tiger won the Booker Prize. In addition, her children’ s book The Ghost of Thomas Kempe won the Carnegie Medal, and A Stitch in Time won the Whitbread Book of the Year award.
Life in the Garden
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
Dancing Fish and Ammonites
How It All Began
Family Album
Consequences
Making It Up
The Photograph

Books

Life in the Garden
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
Dancing Fish and Ammonites
How It All Began
Family Album
Consequences
Making It Up
The Photograph

Books for Women’s History Month

In honor of Women’s History Month in March, we are sharing books by women who have shaped history and have fought for their communities. Our list includes books about women who fought for racial justice, abortion rights, equality in the workplace, and ranges in topics from women in politics and prominent women in history to

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