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After the success of The Northern Clemency, shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Philip Hensher brings us another slice of contemporary life, th...
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 ...
Comic but moving examination of the roles people play in public and what they do when they are alone at night. By the author of Òther Lulus'....
How Handwriting Makes Us who We are
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 thei...
The bestselling novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency and King of the Badgers....
The Lost Art of Handwriting
The loop of an "l," the chewed-on pen, letters tiny or expansive: what we've lost in the error of typing and texting When Philip Hensher realized that...
A Novel
From the Man Booker–short-listed author of The Northern Clemency, a family and a nation—Bangladesh—are forged through storytelling, conversation...
A City in Short Fiction
Known for both its industrial roots and arboreal abundance, Sheffield has always been a city of two halves. From its botanical gardens and elegant par...
A book full of secrets, partly revealed, partly concealed....
BOOKER SHORTLISTED 2008. An epic chronicle of the last 20 years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist,...
The new novel from the Booker shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency When a pandemic strikes, and a country's whole population is told to close t...
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Or, The Two Virtuous Journeys of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan
Contemporary Tales from the Woods
A charming collection of stories and fables inspired by Britain's nineteen species of native trees, written by nineteen of Britain's leading authors. ...
Ten daring stories from ‘a writer who seems capable of anything’ (Guardian), the Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip Hensher...
‘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 imposs...
Beginning In 1974 And Ending With The Fading Of Thatcher'S Government In 1996, 'The Northern Clemency' Is Philip Hensher'S Epic Portrait Of An Entire ...
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 ...