New Releases by Penelope Lively

Fourteen stories on relations between men and women. In one story, an estranged couple find common cause in their dislike of their marriage counsellor, in another, a wife patiently waits for the right moment to reveal to her husband she knows of his infidelity.

" Chacun garda les yeux fixés sur la porte. Un homme fit alors son apparition, un civil vêtu d''un costume gris immaculé avec une chemise blanche... Les passagers du vol CAP 500, sales, échevelés, les yeux rougis par l''épuisement, rivèrent sur lui leurs regards pleins de morosité. " Mesdames et Messieurs, bonsoir. J''ai reçu du gouvernement de la Calimbie la mission de vous souhaiter la bienvenue. Nous nous trouvons malheureusement dans la nécessité de différer encore quelque peu votre départ en raison des troubles qui persistent dan notre pays .... " La vérité, c''est que les infortunés passagers du vol qui se rendaient à Nairobi sont retenus en otages en Calimbie, où un incident technique a contraint leur appareil à se poser. Que va-t-il se passer pendant ces longues journées d''attente, d''incertitude et d''angoisse ? L''étrange histoire de la Calimbie, pays d''Afrique où aurait régné autrefois la sœur de Cléopâtre, et le passé encore plus bizarre du dictateur qui la gouverne auront-ils une influence sur le cours des évènements ?

A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively, Oleander, Jacaranda evokes the author''s unusual childhood growing up English in Egypt during the 1930s and 1940s. Filled with the birds, animals and planets of the Nile landscape that the author knew as a child, Oleander, Jacaranda follows the young Penelope from a visit to a fellaheen village to an afternoon at the elegant Gezira Sporting Club, one milieu as exotic to her as the other. Lively''s memoir offers us the rare opportunity to accompany a gifted writer on a journey of exploration into the mysterious world of her own childhood.

A girl''s stuffed animals, Frog, Lion, and Cat, and her doll, Mary Ann, each take her on a different bedtime adventure.

The cat and the crow live under the huge and mysterious banyan tree. All day long they tell each other stories. One day, they decide to tell extra special stories, each of which involves them climbing inside the banyan tree

On a visit to her childhood home a woman recalls the experiences she and her brother had while living there during World War II and especially the reasons they decided to run away.

When positively uncanny things begin happening in the new housing development, Tim and his grandfather realize they must do something to stop them.

Peter''s birthday gift to his grandfather of two strange-looking eggs begins a series of adventures when the eggs hatch into dragons.

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.

Grade level: 4, 5, 6, 7, e, i.

Rumor says that the Wild Hunt has been heard again - ghost hounds and antlered horsemen - broughtback by the revival of the ancient Horn Dance in the Somerset village of Hagworthy.

Summary: 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.

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.

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.

Tijdens de opnamen voor een tv-programma over de bekende archeoloog Paxton worden fragmenten uit het leven aan een aantal van zijn vroegere vrienden en medewerkers geschilderd.

Six animals set off to sail down river to London. Stanley is unsure what he is and he may be able to find out if he can visit London Zoo.