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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
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When James moves into a new house he meets Thomas Kempe, a sorcerer looking for an apprentice. No one notices when the builders smash a small glass bottle in an old cottage in Ledsham, Oxfordshire. But when James and his family move in, strange things start to happen and James gets the blame. But it is not James who is causing all the mischief.
Thomas Kempe was a medieval Bishop of London. Kempe was the nephew of John Kemp , Archbishop of Canterbury . Kempe was provided to London on 21 August 1448 and consecrated on 8 February 1450.
Aug 6, 2012 · The Ghost of Thomas Kempe. Paperback – 6 Aug. 2012. The classic ghost story from Penelope Lively, one of the modern greats of British fiction for adults and children alike. James is fed up. His family has moved to a new cottage - with grounds that are great for excavations, and trees that are perfect for climbing – and stuff is happening.
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Jan 1, 1973 · The Ghost of Thomas Kempe is another such book, relying on finds a diary from 1865 in a rubbish tip in the garden, as well as 17th century spectacles, and various other curios. I remember as a child, on being disappointed by another futile poke around an attic, thinking that this, like Narnia, wizard school and phoenixes, was the kind of thing ...
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Aug 14, 2021 · Unwittingly, they’ve released the ghost of Thomas Kempe Esq., who died in 1629. A restless, poltergeist-like spirit, Kempe is itching to get back to his old ways of making himself rather bullyingly useful to the people of Ledsham, offering such services as “Sorcerie, Astrologie, Geomancie, Alchemie, Recoverie of Goodes Lost, Physicke”.
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Winner of the 1973 CILIP Carnegie Medal The Ghost of Thomas Kempe is a timeless and haunting story, critically acclaimed, this Carnegie award winning novel also made it into The Independent’s ‘Top Ten Ghost Stories of all time’. Penelope Lively is the only author to have won both the Booker Prize and the Carnegie Medal, the two most prestigious awards, one for an adult book and the other ...
