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Russell Hoban
One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Russell Hoban’s masterpiece, a post-apocalyptic vision of humanity stripped back to its essentials
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A warm and witty novel in which a Faustian pact leads to an unconventional love triangle
Serial philanderer Jonathan Fitch is distraught when his girlfriend Serafina leaves him. In a…
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On 4 November 2052 Fremder Gorm is found drifting in space a few megaklicks off Badu, a planet in the Fourth Galaxy. He is the only survivor from Clever Daughter…
Two internationally acclaimed artists create a groundbreaking, genre-defying adventure to transcend time, place, and identity. This breathtaking novel, as exciting as it is spooky, is a lyrical tribute to the…
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Frances decides she wants to eat only bread and jam at every meal until–to her surprise–her parents grant her wish. Makes its point for fussy eaters … gently, amusingly, and…
Originally published by Farrar Straus Giroux in 1987.
Funny, thought-provoking and moving, this much loved story is a true classic.
Tramps don’t have to do any work. They just tramp around and have a good time. But when Charlie hears water trickling, can he resist the urge to make it…
Frustrated author Herman Orff takes up the offer of a cure for writer’s block and plunges into a semi-dreamland inhabited by a bizarre combination of characters from myth and reality…
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A vertiginous and dazzling spin on the classic quest story by ‘far the most imaginative novelist in Britain’ (Independent)
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The first time Peter Diggs saw Amaryllis she was at a bus stop where the street sign said Balsamic although there was nothing vinegary about the place. That was a…
Recently widowed and increasingly lonely, Roswell’s life had arrived at the point when he felt he needed a tattoo. His ideal image was that of a bat featured on an…
For use in schools and libraries only. Thelma usually outsmarts Frances until Frances decides to teach her a lesson about friendship
Tom is so good at fooling around that he does little else. His Aunt Fidget Wonkham-Strong, who thinks this is too much like having fun, calls upon the fearsome Captain…
A novel about bloodthirsty 1950s movie cowgirls with hallucinogenic toadsucking properties: this is seductive, fine fiction at the cutting edge of mayhem
The map-maker lives in a time when lions are extinct. He makes a map for his son to find everything he could ever want, but suddenly deserts his family to…
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Admitted to hospital ward A-4 with geometrical pain in his hypotenuse, Kleinzeit discovers others who suffer from nonsenical but possibly deadly ailments. His escape from the hospital plunges him headlong…
After Pilgermann, a German Jew in the year 1096, ravishes the tax collector’s wife, an angry Christian mob retaliates by brutally castrating him. Bleeding and left for dead, Pilgermann experiences…
Frances finds it difficult to go to sleep with the strange noises and menacing shapes that seem to fill her room after dark.
Frances is jealous of her sister’s birthday, but birthday spirit moves her toreluctantly give her coveted gift. Full color.
When a baby sister arrives, Frances the badger finds a charming way to prove her own importance. Three-color illustrations.
For the first time ever, this classic story is available in the I Can Read format. With gently abridged text and beautiful full-color art, this edition will introduce a new…
On a day like any other, Kleinzeit gets fired. Hours later, he finds himself in hospital with a pair of adventurous pyjamas and a recurring geometrical pain. Here, he falls…
Thelma usually outsmarts Frances until Frances decides to teach her a lesson about friendship.
Describes Riddley Walker’s attempt to understand the past and present of a world which continues to exist two thousand years after the ultimate catastrophe.
He climbs a ladder to reach another man’s wife and gives himself up to her beauty, but then Pilgermann descends into a mob of peasants inspired by the Pope to…
Father has had a sorely trying day, but what he finds when he comes home isn’t going to make it any better.
The turtles in London Zoo become the mutual obsession of two lonely strangers who dream of setting free the turtles and themselves. Detail by detail their diaries record a world…
Barbara Herkommer-Korfgen
Alle Protagonisten Russell Hobans befinden sich als Fahrende, Wandernde, Pilger oder Kunstler jeder auf ihm eigentumliche Weise ‘on the move’. Der homo viator bewegt sich anfangs noch in chronologischer Abfolge…
First published in 1964, this classic Frances story has been reillustrated in colour by the original artist. In this gently funny tale, Frances discovers that she doesn’t have to run…
Alida Allison
This edited volume reviews the long career of Russell Hoban, an American residing in England who writes for children and adults. ‘Forty Years’ refers to the length of his career…
One day Thelma tricks Frances into buying her old plastic tea set. Thelma says there are no backsies on the bargain. Can Frances come up with a plan that will…
Now back in print after more than 40 years in beautiful gift edition–the classic story from the creators of the Frances the Badger series that inspired Jim Henson’s beloved 1977…
Harvey thinks his big sister, Mildred, is mean and rotten and she thinks he is stupid and no-good, so they both spend some lonely hours refusing to play together.
In this memorable story, Frances decides that bread and jam are all she wants to eat, and her understanding parents grant her wish - at breakfast, lunch, dinner and even…
For the first time ever, this classic story is available in the I Can Read! format. With gently abridged text and beautiful full-color art, this edition introduces a new generation…
Frances is jealous of her sister’s birthday, but birthday spirit moves her to reluctantly give her coveted gift.
Frances foils Thelma’s plot to trick her out of a new china set.
As her little sister Gloria’s birthday approaches, Frances wavers between being generous–and being jealous.
Originally published 1964, copyright renewed 1992.
Frances doesn’t think her little sister can be her friend, but after being left out of her best friend Albert’s no-girls baseball game, Frances finds that sisters can indeed be…
A classic tale of the triumph of fooling-around fun over humourless no-nonsense adult disapproval!
