She is also a vice-president of the Friends of the British Library. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1989, Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2001, and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to literature. Lively was shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She won the 1987 Booker Prize for her novel Moon Tiger. Books Fiction for children Astercote (1970) The Whispering Knights (1971) The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy (1971) The Driftway (1972) The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (1973) – Carnegie Medal The House in Norham Gardens (1974) Going Back (1975) Boy Without a Name (1975) A Stitch in Time (1976) – Whitbread Children's Book Award The Stained Glass Window (1976), illustrated by Michael Pollard Fanny's Sister (1976) The Voyage of QV66 (1978) Fanny and the Monsters (1979) Fanny and the Battle of Potter's Piece (1980) The Revenge of Samuel Stokes (1981) Uninvited Ghosts and other stories (1984), collection Dragon Trouble (1984), illus. Valerie Littlewood Debbie and the Little Devil (1987) A House Inside Out (1987) Princess by Mistake (1993) Judy and the Martian (1993) The Cat, the Crow and the Banyan Tree (1994), illus. Terry Milne Good Night, Sleep Tight (1995), illus. Adriano Gon Two Bears and Joe (1995), illus. Jan Ormerod Staying with Grandpa (1995) A Martian Comes to Stay (1995) The Disastrous Dog (1995), illus. Robert Bartlett Ghostly Guests (1997) One, Two, Three ... Jump! (1998), illus. Jan Ormerod Dragon Trouble (1999), new edition illus. Andrew Rowland In Search of a Homeland: The Story of The Aeneid (2001), illus. Ian Andrew Fiction for adults The Road to Lichfield (1977) – Booker Prize finalist Nothing Missing but the Samovar, and other stories (1978), collection – Southern Arts Literature Prize Treasures of Time (1979) – Arts Council National Book Award Judgment Day (1980) Next to Nature, Art (1982) Perfect Happiness (1983) Corruption, and other stories (1984), collection According to Mark (1984) – Booker Prize finalist Pack of Cards, collected short stories 1978–1986 (1986), collection Moon Tiger (1987) – Booker Prize; Whitbread finalist Passing On (1989) City of the Mind (1991) Cleopatra's Sister (1993) Heat Wave (1996) Beyond the Blue Mountains (1997), collection (U.S. title: The Five Thousand and