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A Small Revolution in Germany by Philip Hensher
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
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
Berlin Stories by Hensher Philip
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
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
King of the Badgers by Philip Hensher
Category: Fiction
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
PENGUIN BOOK OF THE CONTEMPORARY BRITISH SHORT STORY by HENSHER PHILIP (ED)
Category: Fiction
A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative lack of venues in which they can be published, the challenge the medium represents has attracted many remarkable writer ...Show more
Penguin Book Of The British Short Story: Volume I: From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan by Philip Hensher (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction
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
Category: Classic 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
Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story The by Philip Hensher
Category: Fiction
We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative lack of places in which they can be published, the challenge the medium represents has attracted a host of remarkable, subversive, entertaining and innovative writers. Philip Hensher, following the success of his ...Show more
Pleasured by Philip Hensher
Category: Fiction
Perhaps the best novel yet about the collapse of the Berlin Wall,
Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher
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