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Earlier this week Diane hosted a special edition of The Diane Rehm Book Club, her monthly series held on ZOOM in front of a live audience. This month she asked some of her favorite book lovers to join her to talk about their favorite reads of year. And they did not disappoint. Her guests were Ann Patchett, novelist and owner of Parnassus Books, Eddie Glaude Jr., professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of several books on race and politics, and Maureen Corrigan, book critic on NPR's Fresh Air. She also teaches literary criticism at Georgetown University. See below for a list of each guest's top books of the year, along with all of the titles discussed during this conversation. Maureen Corrigan's top books of 2024: “James” by Percival Everett “Colored Television” by Danzy Senna “Long Island” by Colm Tóibín “Tell Me Everything” by Elizabeth Strout “Martyr!” by Kaveh Akbar “Creation Lake” by Rachel Kushner “Cahokia Jazz” by Francis Spufford “The God of the Woods” by Liz Moore “A Wilder Shore” by Camille Peri “The Letters of Emily Dickinson” edited by Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell Ann Patchett's top books of 2024: “James” by Percival Everett “Martyr!” by Kaveh Akbar “Colored Television” by Danzy Senna “Sipsworth” by Simon Van Booy “Tell Me Everything” by Elizabeth Strout “Mighty Red” by Louise Erdrich “Time of the Child” by Niall Williams “An Unfinished Love Story” by Doris Kearns Goodwin “The Backyard Bird Chronicles” by Amy Tan “Hotel Balzaar” by Kate DiCamillo (middle grade book)  “Water, Water: Poems” by Billy Collins Eddie Glaude Jr.'s top books of 2024: “Slaveroad” by John Edgar Wideman “Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative” by Isabella Hammad  “We're Alone” by Edwidge Danticat Other titles mentioned in the discussion: “Wide Sargasso Sea” with introduction by Edwidge Danticat “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver “The Dog Who Followed the Moon: An Inspirational Story with Meditations on Life, Experience the Power of Love and Sacrifice” by James Norbury “Afterlives” by Abdulrazak Gurnah “Someone Knows My Name” by Lawrence Hill “Moon Tiger” by Penelope Lively “Sandwich” by Catherine Newman “Windward Heights” by Maryse Condé “There's Always This Year” by Hanif Abdurraqib “Mothers and Sons” by Adam Haslett (publication date in January 2025) “Memorial Day” by Geraldine Brooks (publication date in February 2025) “33 Place Brugmann” by Alice Austen (publication date in March 2025) “Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchell “Independent People” by Halldor Laxness “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald “Beloved” by Toni Morrison “Sing, Unburied, Sing” by Jesmyn WardTo find out more about The Diane Rehm Book Club go to dianerehm.org/bookclub.

Penelope Lively, now 89 years old, is the author of more than 30 books for children, six short story collections and 17 novels. Shortlisted three times for the Booker prize, she won it in 1987 for her time-shifting novel Moon Tiger, in which a terminally ill woman looks back at wartime adventures, love affairs and fraught family life. Dame Penelope Lively has won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award for her children's books. She is also the author of three volumes of memoirs. Dame Penelope recalls her early childhood in Cairo, and how real-life wartime Egypt inspired the fiction of Moon Tiger. Andrew Lang's Tales of Troy and Greece, a retelling of the Homeric myths, first sparked her creative imagination at the age of ten. Having moved to England in late 1945, she remembers the devastation left by the Blitz, and how seeing for herself the ruins in London, both ancient and modern, prompted a lifelong fascination with archaeology. An extremely wide reader, she discusses the influence of her lifetimes' reading habit on her fiction; in particular The Making Of The English Landscape by W.G. Hoskins, a book about the strata of history that have helped shape England, which inspired some of the recurring themes of memory and loss in her own work. Producer: Edwina Pitman

Penelope Lively, Margaret Laurence, thinking and feeling – welcome to episode 103! Apologies for the unexpected delay in recording. Blame Rachel! But we are here and raring to go. In the first half, we follow a topic suggested by Mairad

Novelist and children's author Penelope Lively was born on this day in Cairo, Egypt (1933). She's the author of "Moon Tiger" and most recently a memoir "Life in the Garden."

British fiction writer Dame Penelope Margaret Lively celebrates her 88th birthday today. Lively is the author of the children's book “The Ghost of Thomas Kempe”(1973) and the novel “Moon Tiger” (1987).

Este episodio se escucha un poco mal, sepan perdonar. Estamos tratando de arreglar los problemas técnicos!!!! En este episodio hablamos de uno de los autores más famosos, Haruki Murakami, y su libro Kafka en la Orilla. También comenzamos el episodio hablando de Gabriel García Márquez y su libro El Otoño del Patriarca, Moon Tiger de Penelope Lively y Oceano de Sonido David Toop. http://instagram.com/plumapantalla http://twitter.com/plumapantalla

In this episode Sean reviews "Deliver Us The Moon", Jessie gives her take on "Tiger King", and Derek discusses "Uncut Gems" starring Adam Sandler.Podcast Website:http://dadhatnewsandreviews.com/Support the show:https://www.patreon.com/legacythevideogamePurchase some sweet DADHAT merch:https://teespring.com/stores/dadhat-podcast-merch-outpost-2Get your own podcast started with Buzzsprout! https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=541813Download FUTURETECH SPACE COMBAT ACADEMY free pre-alpha demo: http://www.futuretechcadet.com/Battleground Games & Hobbies Website:https://www.battlegroundgames.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/m/dadhatnewsandreviews)

Interesting selection of stories by a Booker Prize winning author. (Local productions are on hold during the social distance requirements due to Covid-19. This segment originally aired April 19, 2018.) Penelope Lively is an author with a subtle and delightful sense of humor and pathos. She has written more than 20 novels and short story collections. Her latest collection, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories is every bit engrossing as many of the others I have read. Penelope was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1933. She is a British Citizen and has been awarded the title of “Dame of the British Empire.” She won the Booker Prize in 1987 for her acclaimed novel, Moon Tiger. She is a sure bet for a great read. The collection begins with the title story, The Purple Swamp Hen. The story is told by a Purple Swamp Hen, and it is rather humorous. Penelope begins with a detailed description—including taxonomy—of the hen. She writes, “Wondering where all this is going? Have patience. You know me on

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This year, the Man Booker Prize is celebrating its 50th anniversary. To mark the special event, a one-off Golden Man Booker Prize is being given to a previous winner crowning the overall best work of fiction from the last five decades of the prize. The five books thought to have best stood the test of time are: In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul; Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively; The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje; Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel; and Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. We listen to them all and talk to some of the authors on the shortlist in this Man Booker special.

In the second episode of the Golden Man Booker podcasts, host Joe Haddow continues the journey through the shortlisted novels for this special prize. Joe catches up with Simon Mayo about his selected shortlist novel from the 2010s, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and with Lemn Sissay about the 1987 winner Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively. Joe then talks to Ted Hodgkinson, Senior Programmer, Literature and Spoken Word at the Southbank Centre, about the upcoming Man Booker 50 Festival and Dotti Irving, Chief Executive of Four Culture, who's been involved with the prize for over 25 years.

In episode five of the Man Booker Podcast series, we celebrate the recently announced 2015 shortlist. Host Joe Haddow catches up with two of the 2015 Man Booker Prize judges, Ellah Allfrey and John Burnside, to find out more about the six books that have made the cut. Then it's into central London for a visit to the bookies with writer and broadcaster Rick Edwards, to have flutter on the shortlisted books and chat to William Hill's bookmaker extraordinaire Graham Sharpe about making the odds. In this bumper shortlist episode, Joe also chats to Man Group's CEO Manny Roman, on supporting the prize and his literary influences before joining former winner much-loved author Dame Penelope Lively at home, as she talks about what it was like to win the prize 28 years ago, in 1987, with Moon Tiger. This is the latest in the Man Booker Prize Podcast series, an exciting look at the very best from the world of books. Join the conversation at @ManBookerPrize and #FinestFiction. **Gambling is very risky and careless gambling can result in the loss of substantial sums of money. For further information on responsible gambling, or if you think you may have a gambling problem, please click here (http://www.gamcare.org.uk/) or here (https://www.gamblingtherapy.org/) Underage gambling is an offence.

Harriett Gilbert talks to acclaimed British writer Penelope Lively about her Booker Prize winning novel Moon Tiger. A haunting tale of loss, loneliness and secret desires Moon Tiger is the kaleidoscopic story of maverick historian Claudia Hampton. Telling nurses on her death bed that she will write a "history of the world and in the process my own," she charts her intensely-lived life from her childhood in England after World War I to the war-torn desert plains of Egypt, 30 years later – and beyond. Egocentric and condescending as well as vulnerable and gutsy, Claudia is a complex heroine for our times who lingers in the mind long after you put the book down. (Image: Penelope Lively. Copyright: Penguin)

James Naughtie meets Penelope Lively and talks to her about her Booker Prize winning novel Moon Tiger in the company of the reading circle at Nightingale residential Home for Older People.

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is one of Britain's leading writers, Penelope Lively. Author of eight novels, two of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize and one which won her the prize in 1987, Moon Tiger, she'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her early childhood in Egypt, her philistine English boarding school and the sources of inspiration for her characters and books.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Ruhe Sanft, Mein Holdes Leben (from Zaide) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Moby Dick by Herman Melville Luxury: Binoculars

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is one of Britain's leading writers, Penelope Lively. Author of eight novels, two of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize and one which won her the prize in 1987, Moon Tiger, she'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her early childhood in Egypt, her philistine English boarding school and the sources of inspiration for her characters and books. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Ruhe Sanft, Mein Holdes Leben (from Zaide) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Moby Dick by Herman Melville Luxury: Binoculars