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A Small Revolution in Germany by Philip Hensher
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
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
King of the Badgers by Philip Hensher
$37.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$25.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher
$50.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher
$25.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$45.00 NZD
Category: World 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 Emperor Waltz by Philip Hensher
$45.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | 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
$25.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$35.00 NZD
Category: World 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 Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting, and Why it Still Matters by Philip Hensher
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | 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 Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
$27.00 NZD
Category: World 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
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