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  • The Missing Ink

    The Lost Art of Handwriting

    by Philip Hensher ...
    "Acclaimed British novelist Hensher . . . provides a droll and eclectic tour of handwriting history" — Booklist ."Rediscover the joys of writing. . . . Like a charming dinner guest, [Hensher] brims with fun facts, good humor and amusing reminiscences . . . [He] enlivens his musings about penmanship's demise with sharp insights and wry wit." ― The New York Times Book Review... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Kitchen Venom

    by Philip Hensher ...
    “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 Iron Lady herself.As a senior clerk in the House of Commons, John is a man of gravitas, a well-respected widower with two grown-up daughters, who upholds ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • The Northern Clemency

    by Philip Hensher ...
    Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeIn 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 disappeared. The reverberations of this rupture will echo through the years to come as the connection between the ... Read more

    Was $18.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • The Mulberry Empire

    A Novel

    by Philip Hensher ...
    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 and massacre.At the center of The Mulberry Empireis Alexander Burnes, a Scots explorer who travels to the unfathomably remote kingdom of Afghanistan and ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • King of the Badgers

    A Novel

    by Philip Hensher ...
    A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books 2011Far from London's crime and pollution, Hanmouth's wealthier residents live in picturesque, heavily mortgaged cottages in the center of a town packed with artisanal cheese shops and antiques stores. They're reminded of the town's less desirable outskirts—with their grim, flimsy housing stock and chain ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Scenes from Early Life

    A Novel

    by Philip Hensher ...
    From the Man Booker–short-listed author of The Northern Clemency, a family and a nation—Bangladesh—are forged through storytelling, conversation, jokes, feuds, blood, songs, bravery, and sacrificeIn late 1970 a boy named Saadi is born into a large, defiantly Bengali family in eastern Pakistan. Months later the country splits in two, in what will become one of the most ferocious twentieth-century ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914

    Edited by Philip Hensher ...
    '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 World War saw an extraordinary boom in the popularity and quality of short stories in Britain, fuelled by a large, eager new magazine readership. The ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Book of Sheffield

    A City in Short Fiction

    by Margaret Drabble, Philip Hensher, Gregory Norminton, Geoff Nicholson, Naomi Frisby, Tim Etchells, Johny Pitts, Helen Mort, Desiree Reynolds, Karl Riordan ...
    Series series Reading the City
    Known for both its industrial roots and arboreal abundance, Sheffield has always been a city of two halves.From its botanical gardens and elegant parks, to the brutalist high-rise estates of Park Hill, and the hinterland nightclubs of ‘Centertainment’, it is a city caught between the forges of the past and the melting pot of the present.Bringing together new short stories from some of the city’s ... Read more

    $10.13 CAD

  • The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2

    From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith

    Edited by Philip Hensher ...
    Series Book 2 - The Penguin Book of the British Short Story
    TELEGRAPH, INDEPENDENT, FINANCIAL TIMES AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015Hilarious, exuberant, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular, and above all unexpected: these two extraordinary volumes contain the limitless possibilities of the British short story.This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones. The most famous ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Molesworth

    by Geoffrey Willans ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    School is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Custard's' and superb chronicler of fifties English life. Nothing escapes his disaffected eye and he has little time for such things as botany walks and cissy poetry with an assortment of swots, snekes and oiks. Instead he is very good at missing lessons, charming masters and putting down little brothers, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Friendly Ones

    by Philip Hensher ...
    Narrated by Chetan Pathak ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 57 min

    ‘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 Katsoulis, The TimesThe things history will do at the bidding of loveOn a warm Sunday afternoon, Nazia and Sharif are preparing for a family barbecue. They are in the house in Sheffield that will do for the rest of their lives. In the ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Soul Of Kindness

    by Elizabeth Taylor ...
    Series Book 363 - Virago Modern Classics
    INTRODUCED BY PHILIP HENSHER'Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth. As a reader, I have found huge pleasure in returning to Taylor's novels and short stories many times over. As a writer I've returned to her too - in awe of her achievements, and trying to work out how she does it' SARAH WATERSA ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD