One Nights) Spiderweb (1998) The Photograph (2003) Making it up (2005) Consequences (2007) Family Album (2009) – Costa finalist How It All Began (November 2011) The Purple Swamp Hen and Other stories (May 2017) Nonfiction The Presence of the Past: An introduction to landscape history (1976) Oleander, Jacaranda: a Childhood Perceived (1994), autobiographical A House Unlocked (2001), autobiographical Ammonites and Leaping Fish (2013), memoir (subsequently Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir) Life in the Garden (2018), memoir References External links Audio slideshow interview about Family Album on The Interview Online Interview with Penelope Lively, ALL ABOUT KIDS! TV Series, Episode #165 (1994) Interview with Penelope Lively, A DISCUSSION WITH National Authors on Tour TV Series, Episode #79 (1994) 1933 births Living people Writers from Cairo British children's writers British fantasy writers Booker Prize winners Carnegie Medal in Literature winners Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford 20th-century British novelists 21st-century British novelists 20th-century British women writers 21st-century British women writers British women short story writers British women children's writers Women science fiction and fantasy writers British women novelists