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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
A Small Revolution in Germany by Philip Hensher
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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
King of the Badgers by Philip Hensher
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
After the success of The Northern Clemency, shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Philip Hensher brings us another slice of contemporary life, this time the peaceful civility and spiralling paranoia of a small English town. Hanmouth, situated where the river Hand flows into the Bristol channel, is ...Show more
King of the Badgers by Philip Hensher
$19.99 AUD
$27.99 (28% off)
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
Penguin Book Of The British Short Story: Volume I: From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan by Philip Hensher (Editor)
$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: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | 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
Tales of Persuasion by Philip Hensher
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ten daring stories from 'a writer who seems capable of anything' (Guardian), the Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip Hensher Backdrops vary in this collection of stories from the author of The Northern Clemency - from turmoil in Sudan following the death of a politician in a plane crash, to southern India w ...Show more
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner; Philip Hensher (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In memory of the wife who had once dishonored and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded a 12th-century convent in Norfolk. Two centuries later, the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such ironic beginnings, the inhabitants are prey to the ...Show more
The Emperor Waltz by Philip Hensher
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
The new novel from Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip Hensher - his most ambitious and daring novel yet. An astonishing novel, 'The Emperor Waltz' draws together various narrative strands into a compelling symphonic whole. In a third-century desert settlement on the fringes of the Roman Empire, a new wife ...Show more
The Emperor Waltz by Philip Hensher
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The most ambitious and daring novel novel yet from Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip Hensher. 'A novel that's almost fizzy to the touch ...A performance of extraordinary flair and majesty from a writer who seems capable of anything' Guardian 'The Emperor Waltz' is a single novel with three narrative stran ...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