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Passing On is the eighth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.Helen is fifty-two and Edward forty-nine when Dorothy, their mother, dies, ending her reign of terror and leaving them ill-equipped to deal with their lives. Timid, cautious and naive, Helen makes the charming Giles Carnaby, familiy solicitor, the object of a belated schoolgirl crush, while Edward, free to express his sexuality at last, finds it gets the better of him. Dorothy may be dead and buried, but her iron grip...

The warrior known as Infidel is legendary for her superhuman strength and skin tough as mail; she's made few friends during her career as a sword-for-hire, and many powerful enemies. Following the death of her closest companion, Infidel wearies of life as a mercenary. She sets her eyes on one final prize that will allow her to live out the rest of her days in luxury: the treasure trove of Greatshadow, the primal dragon of fire. His malign intelligence spies upon mankind through every flickering...

An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society When a recklessly idealistic girl in a dystopian future society dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled world, she is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America - 'Wainscotia, Wisconsin' - that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town, she is set upon a course of 'rehabilitation' - but she falls in lov...