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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
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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
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1: From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan by Various
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
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: Short Stories | 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
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner; Philip Hensher (Introduction by)
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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 Friendly Ones by Philip Hensher
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'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: Short Stories
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
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: II: From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith by Philip Hensher
$49.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: The\Penguin Book of the British Short Story Ser.
Hilarious, exuberant, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular, and above all unexpected: these two extraordinary volumes contain the limitless possibilities of the British short story. This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones. ...Show more
To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The new novel from the Booker shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency An order is issued. A population may not meet, or touch or speak to each other. They stay inside, and the reality of a few streets in a capital city emerges. An underground river is discovered; an urban grove of pomeloes emerges. ...Show more
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