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Penguin Book Of The British Short Story: Volume II: From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith by Philip Hensher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
She would tear the house down - shatter the windows, slash the furniture, flood the baths, fire the curtains!' Hilarious, exuberant, surreal, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular and above all unexpected- this extraordinary selection celebrates the British short story from the 1920s to the present day. F ...Show more
Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story The by Philip Hensher
$55.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative lack of places in which they can be published, the challenge the medium represents has attracted a host of remarkable, subversive, entertaining and innovative writers. Philip Hensher, following the success of his ...Show more
The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914 by Philip Hensher (Editor)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A richly varied anthology showcases a teeming, strange, magical world, about to be brought to an end by the catastrophe of 1914The quarter century or so before the outbreak of the First World War saw an extraordinary boom in the popularity and quality of short stories in Britain. Fuelled by a large new ...Show more
To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The new novel from the Booker shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency An order is issued. A population may not meet, or touch or speak to each other. They stay inside, and the reality of a few streets in a capital city emerges. An underground river is discovered; an urban grove of pomeloes emerges. ...Show more
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