Dame Penelope Lively, DBE

Career: writer; book reviews and short stories in numerous magazines, various TV and radio scripts; former chm Soc of Authors (memb 1973-); memb: PEN 1985-, Arts Cncl Lit Panel 1990-92, Bd The British Library 1993-99, Bd Br Cncl 1997-; Hon DLitt; FRSL

Books and Publications: Children's Books Astercote (1970), The Whispering Knights (1971), The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy (1971), The Driftway (1972), The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (Carnegie medal, 1974), The House in Norham Gardens (1974), Going Back (1975), Boy Without a Name (1975), A Stitch in Time (Whitbread award, 1976), The Stained Glass Window (1976), Fanny's Sister (1976), The Voyage of QV66 (1978), Fanny and The Monsters (1978), Fanny and The Battle of Potter's Piece (1980), The Revenge of Samuel Stokes (1981), Fanny and the Monsters (three stories, 1983), Uninvited Ghosts (1984), Dragon Trouble (1984), Debbie and the Little Devil (1987), A House Inside Out (1987); Non-Fiction The Presence of the Past (1976), Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived (1994), A House Unlocked (2001); Fiction The Road to Lichfield (1977), Nothing Missing but the Samovar (Southern Arts Literary prize, 1978), Treasures of Time (Arts Cncl Nat Book award, 1979), Judgement Day (1980), Next to Nature, Art (1982), Perfect Happiness (1983), Corruption (1984), According to Mark (1984), Pack of Cards, stories 1978-86 (1986), Moon Tiger (Booker prize, 1987), Passing On (1989), City of the Mind (1991), Cleopatra's Sister (1993), Heat Wave (1996), Beyond the Blue Mountains (1997), Spiderweb (1998), The Photograph (2003), Making it Up (2005), Consequences (2007), How It All Began (2012)