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A Small Revolution in Germany by Philip Hensher
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A Small Revolution in Germany is about growing up, or refusing to accept what growing up means; it's about the small dishonest pacts that people make with their own futures; and it's about the rare and joyous refusal to be disillusioned. Everyone remembers what it's like to be seventeen. The conversatio ...Show more
A Small Revolution in Germany by Philip Hensher
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A Small Revolution in Germany is about growing up, or refusing to accept what growing up means; it's about the small dishonest pacts that people make with their own futures; and it's about the rare and joyous refusal to be disillusioned. Everyone remembers what it's like to be seventeen. The conversati ...Show more
Berlin Stories by Hensher Philip
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
A gorgeously jacketed hardback anthology of classic stories set in Berlin, by an array of writers from Germany, England, Ireland, the USA, Russia, Switzerland, Belgium and Mexico. Berlin, in the words of Philip Hensher, editor of this anthology, 'has always been a city of desperate modernity', both in ...Show more
King of the Badgers by Philip Hensher
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of 'The Northern Clemency'. Hanmouth: a quiet, picturesque English seaside town. But behind closed, Georgian front doors and the within the artisan cheese shop, its residents live lives that are anything but. When an 8-year-old girl goes missing fro ...Show more
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1: From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan by Various
29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The Boy-scouts mistook my signal, and have killed the postman. I've had very little practice in this sort of thing, you see' The British short story tradition is probably the richest, most varied and historically extensive in the world. This new anthology celebrates the full diversity and energy of its ...Show more
Penguin Book Of The British Short Story: Volume II: From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith by Philip Hensher
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
She would tear the house down - shatter the windows, slash the furniture, flood the baths, fire the curtains!' Hilarious, exuberant, surreal, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular and above all unexpected- this extraordinary selection celebrates the British short story from the 1920s to the present day. F ...Show more
Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The startling new novel from the author of King of the Badgers and the Man Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency. "I was a baby during the war. We stayed inside for months. All my aunts took turns in feeding me. I couldn't be heard to cry. You see, there were soldiers in the streets. They would have ...Show more
Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher
39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The startling new novel from the author of King of the Badgers and the Man Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency. "At that time, there were children you weren't supposed to play with. You knew why. Their parents had been informers during the war. And it hadn't been long since you could have got into ...Show more
The Friendly Ones by Philip Hensher
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'It's the book you should give someone who thinks they don't like novels ... Here is surely a future prizewinner that is easy to read and impossible to forget' Melissa Katsoulis, The TimesThe things history will do at the bidding of loveOn a warm Sunday afternoon, Nazia and Sharif are preparing for a fa ...Show more
The Friendly Ones by Philip Hensher
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'It's the book you should give someone who thinks they don't like novels ... Here is surely a future prizewinner that is easy to read and impossible to forget' Melissa Katsoulis, The TimesThe things history will do at the bidding of loveOn a warm Sunday afternoon, Nazia and Sharif are preparing for a fa ...Show more
The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914 by Philip Hensher (Editor)
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A richly varied anthology showcases a teeming, strange, magical world, about to be brought to an end by the catastrophe of 1914The quarter century or so before the outbreak of the First World War saw an extraordinary boom in the popularity and quality of short stories in Britain. Fuelled by a large new ...Show more
To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A brilliantly conceived and audacious novel from one of our most consistently intelligent and beguiling writers' William Boyd 'Surefooted and emotionally generous ... A serious achievement' Guardian 'Masterful' Telegraph 'A revelation' Spectator The new novel from the Booker shortlisted autho ...Show more