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King of the Badgers by Philip Hensher
36.99 NZD
Category: General 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
Kitchen Venom by Philip Hensher
29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1997 a stunning novel of political life, betrayal and passion, which lifts the lid on vice within the Palace of Westminster and cost Hensher his job as a House of Commons clerk.
Tales of Persuasion by Philip Hensher
44.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
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)
29.99 NZD
Category: General 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 Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914 by Philip Hensher (Editor)
35.00 NZD
Category: History
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 Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting, and Why it Still Matters by Philip Hensher
44.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
'The wisest and wittiest argument imaginable for the preservation of handwriting. I have learnt so much, and by it have been so happily entertained, that I am compelled to recommend it to everyone.' Diana Athill The simple pleasure of picking up a pen and writing is a skill that has existed for thousand ...Show more
The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
The breakthrough novel from Britain's most brilliant young critic: 'Prepare to be dazzled...The Mulberry Empire is executed with flair, confidence and great energy -- a really terrific read and one hell of an achievement.' Victoria Glendinning, Daily Telegraph 'We are in the 1830s and the Great Game, th ...Show more
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
26.99 NZD
27.99 (3% off)
Category: General Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008. An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher. Beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading of Thatcher's government in 1996, 'The Northern Clemency' is Phili ...Show more
To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher
32.99 NZD
Category: Literary
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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