The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively

She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize once in 1977 for her.

She was awarded an OBE in 1989 and a CBE in 2001. Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short story collections for both adults and children. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a member of PEN and a former Chairman of The Society of Authors. The classic ghost story from Penelope Lively, one of the modern greats of British fiction for adults and children alike.When James family moves to a ancient. She has written radio and television scripts and was presenter for a BBC Radio 4 programme on children's literature.

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this novel won the 1973 Carnegie. Penelope Lively contributes regularly to a number of national daily newspapers and literary and educational journals. Buy a used copy of The Ghost of Thomas Kempe book by Penelope Lively. She has also written two volumes of autobiography and many short stories. The ghost of a seventeenth-century sorcerer emerges as a poltergeist and attempts to make young James his apprentice. What they dont realise is that theyre sharing their home with the ghost of 17th century sorcerer Thomas Kempe The ghost decides he wants James as his. More recent novels include The Photograph (2003) and Making it Up (2005). Two of her novels written for adults have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction, and she won it in 1987 with Moon Tiger. Her many books written for children include Astercote (1970), The Whispering Knights (1971), The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (1973), which won the Carnegie Medal, and A Stitch in Time (1976), which won the Whitbread Children's Book Award.

She came to England in 1945, went to school in Sussex, and read Modern History at St Ann's College, Oxford. Penelope Lively was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1933 and brought up there.

The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively