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The Ghost of Thomas Kempe is a low fantasy novel for children by Penelope Lively, first published by Heinemann in 1973 with illustrations by Anthony Maitland. Set in present-day Oxfordshire, it features a boy and his modern family who are new in their English village, and seem beset by a poltergeist.
- Penelope Lively, Pam Smy
- 1973
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe is a low fantasy novel for children by Penelope Lively, first published by Heinemann in 1973 with illustrations by Anthony Maitland. Set in present-day Oxfordshire , it features a boy and his modern family who are new in their English village, and seem beset by a poltergeist .
Jul 19, 2023 · Kempe seems incoherent at first, but eventually the man figures out that Kempe is a scholar. When Kempe learns that the man is a schoolteacher, he asks if he teaches “Silly, suffocating lies, I suppose; or facts, as you prefer to call them.”
But it is not James who is causing all the mischief. It is the ghost of an ancient sorcerer, Thomas Kempe, who is determined to make James his apprentice. Why we chose it. A gentle ghost story from a great storyteller set in Oxfordshire.
Jul 18, 2023 · Once more she took a long slow look at me, as if my catechism were rather more pressing than the occasion warranted. There was a something marked on the map, she had been given to understand—'just an old, ancient building, like.'. "Sure enough there was, I found.
Jun 11, 2007 · Rightly hailed as one of the finest ghost stories ever written, re-reading it only seems to deepen the eerie mystery that surrounds it. The uncertainty that lies over his best work is truly remarkable, and in tales such as “A Recluse”, “Mr. Kempe” and “Crewe” a deep sense of discomfort remains long after one has finished reading them.
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First published in 1973, and winner of the Carnegie Medal, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe is a brilliantly funny ghost story for children, from one of the great writers of modern British fiction.
