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    A Small Revolution in Germany

    Philip Hensher

    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…

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    To Battersea Park

    Philip Hensher

    'A brilliantly conceived and audacious novel from one of our most consistently intelligent and beguiling writers' William Boyd
    'Surefooted and emotionally generous ... A serious achievement' Guardian
    'Masterful' Telegraph

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    Possession: Introduction by Philip Hensher

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    Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Chatto and Windus, London, in 1990. –Title page verso.

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    The Northern Clemency

    Philip Hensher

    The award-winning author of The Mulberry Empire presents a sweeping chronicle of ordinary lives that are profoundly shaped by both the subtleties of everyday experience and the larger forces of…

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    The Missing Ink

    Philip Hensher

    Originally published in 2012 in slightly different form, by Macmillan, Great Britain.

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    Scenes from Early Life

    Philip Hensher

    The story of one upper-middle-class Bengali family, told in the form of a memoir narrated by someone who lived through the brutal Pakistani civil war. It is an autobiography, a…

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    The Friendly Ones

    Philip Hensher

    The things history will do at the bidding of love

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    The Mulberry Empire: A Novel

    Philip Hensher

    The bestselling novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency and King of the Badgers.

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    King of the Badgers

    Philip Hensher

    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…

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    To Battersea Park

    Philip Hensher

    The new novel from the Booker shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency

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    Berlin Stories

    Philip Hensher

    Berlin, in the words of Philip Hensher, editor of this anthology, ‘has always been a city of desperate modernity’, both in terms of urban architecture - largely a creation of…

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    Berlin Stories

    An anthology of stories set in Berlin, by both German and non-German writers, from across the past century –

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    The Northern Clemency

    Philip Hensher

    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…

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    King of the Badgers

    Philip Hensher

    The new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of ‘The Northern Clemency’.

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    Scenes from Early Life

    Philip Hensher

    Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, this is the new novel from the author of ‘King of the Badgers’ and the Man Booker-shortlisted ‘The Northern Clemency’.

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    The Friendly Ones

    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 impossible to forget’ Melissa…

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    The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2: From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith

    Contains the limitless possibilities of the British short story. This title celebrates the diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones. It takes the story from the 1920s to…

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    The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story

    A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years

    We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative…

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    The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914

    A richly varied anthology showcases a teeming, strange, magical world, about to be brought to an end by the catastrophe of 1914

    The quarter century or so before the outbreak…

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    The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1: From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan

    Deals with the limitless possibilities of the British short story. This anthology celebrates the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones. It takes the story from its…

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    Powder Her Face

    Thomas Ades and Philip Hensher’s dazzlingly precocious chamber opera Powder Her Face propelled its composer to international attention after its premiere in 1995.

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    The Gate of Angels

    Penelope Fitzgerald

    Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is 1912, and at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate.

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    Cloudstreet

    Tim Winton

    Tim Winton’s great family drama.

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    Possession

    A S Byatt

    When mild-mannered and unremarkable academic Roland Mitchell stumbles upon a letter written by Victorian poet Randolph Ash to a mysterious woman with whom he seems to be infatuated, he is…

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    The Soul Of Kindness

    Elizabeth Taylor

    A brilliant novel about the damage caused by relentless ‘niceness’. Uncritical, encouraging, ‘the soul of kindness’, Flora’s help is the cruelest hindrance to those who love her most.

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    Molesworth

    Geoffrey Willans

    Features observations on life complemented by illustrations.

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    The Book of Sheffield: A City in Short Fiction

    Margaret Drabble,Philip Hensher,Helen Mort,Gregory Norminton

    Bringing together new short stories by ten of the city’s most celebrated writers. From young creatives and refugees, to scrap metal collectors and student radicals, these stories offer ten different…

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