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Philip Hensher
Books in Order: 16 titles
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The Golden Age of British Short Stories, 1890-1914
- Oct-2020
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'Excellent, entertaining and ingenious ... from Oscar Wilde to Arthur Conan Doyle, this fine anthology celebrates one of the richest moments in Britain's literary history' Sunday TimesThe quarter century between 1890 and the outbreak of the First Wor...
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A Small Revolution in Germany
- Feb-2020
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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. ...
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Berlin Stories
- Nov-2019
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A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of classic stories set in Berlin, by an international array of brilliant writers. Berlin has long been a magnet for writers and artists from all over. Since the nineteenth century when Dostoevsky sought in...
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The Friendly Ones
- Mar-2018
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Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may be printed on the book, but Book name, contents, and author are exactly same as Hardcover Edi...
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The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2
- Oct-2016
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'Eclectic, entertaining ... almost all British, if not human, life is here' Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'Mind-stretching, heart-breaking, beautifully-crafted fiction' Claire Harman, Evening Standard 'She would tear the house down - shatter the windows, ...
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Scenes from Early Life
- Jan-2013
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From the Man Bookerâ€"short-listed author of The Northern Clemency, a family and a nation -- Bangladesh -- are forged through storytelling, conversation, jokes, feuds, blood, songs, bravery, and sacrifice In late 1970 a boy named Saadi is born in...
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King of the Badgers
- Sep-2011
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A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011 One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books 2011 Far from London's crime and pollution, Hanmouth's wealthier residents live in picturesque, heavily mortgaged cottages in the center of a town packed ...
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The Northern Clemency
- Apr-2008
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In 1974, the Sellers family is transplanted from London to Sheffield in northern England. On the day they move in, the Glover household across the street is in upheaval: convinced that his wife is having an affair, Malcolm Glover has suddenly disappe...
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Kitchen Venom
- May-2003
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“Political intrigue, sexual chicanery, disappointment, betrayal” combine with “dazzling” effect (Jane Shilling, The Sunday Telegraph) in this scandalous novel that exposed the secrets of Margaret Thatcher’s government -- as narrated by the ...
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The Mulberry Empire
- Sep-2002
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With Tolstoyan sweep and Dickensian vitality, this epically involving historical novel relates England’s tragic adventure in Afghanistan, which began with the triumphant arrival of the Army of the Indus in 1839 and ended three years later in rout a...
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Other Lulus
- Jun-1995
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This is a novel that explores music, lying, marriage and cooking against the backdrop of contemporary Vienna. Fledgling singer Friederike marries English music-tender Archy who claims to have discovered the lost last act of Alban Berg's opera Lulu....