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Kitchen Venom by Philip Hensher
$20.99 AUD
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.
Pleasured by Philip Hensher
$20.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Perhaps the best novel yet about the collapse of the Berlin Wall,
Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher
$39.99 AUD
Category: 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
$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
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner; Philip Hensher (Introduction by)
$22.99 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: 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 Fit by Philip Hensher
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of The Mulberry Empire comes a short, delicious, rather disorienting novel about an indexer who wakes up one morning to find out that he has just been left by his wife
The Missing Ink: How Handwriting Made Us Who We are by Philip Hensher
$19.99 AUD
Category: Reference
When Philip Hensher realized that he didn't know what a close friend's handwriting looked like, he felt that something essential was missing from their friendship. But does it really matter that typing and texting have largely taken the place of passionate love letters, secret diary entries and postcard ...Show more
The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting, and Why it Still Matters by Philip Hensher
$34.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books | 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
$27.95 AUD
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
$19.99 AUD
Category: 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 Philip ...Show more
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