philip hensher

Op een veel te warme septembermiddag in 2020 trekt de verteller van Open de deur van het huis van zijn geliefde achter zich dicht. Na zeven intense ja

In Eigen van elkaar zijn drie van zijn beste familieromans gebundeld: Bloed krijg je er nooit meer uit, Het geschenk en Het smartlappenkwartier. Bl

"Well-researched... a welcome guide." The Spectator "Reliable and lucid." History Today With a fractured geography and complex identity, The Phili

De wereld van Kakker is er een van tennistoernooien, hockeytraining en een balletje slaan op de juiste golfclub, maar ook van drie keer per jaar skiën

Kakker beleeft allerlei avonturen met zusje Anne-Fleur, mama Sophie en papa Robert-Jan. In Amsterdam-Zuid of ’t Gooi, tijdens de skivakantie in Val Th

Ten daring stories from `a writer who seems capable of anything' (Guardian), the Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip Hensher Backdrops vary in

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-shortliste

The new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of ‘The Northern Clemency’. Hanmouth: a quiet, picturesque English seaside town. But

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008. An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Gran

Philip Hensher is the editor of the highly-praised two-volume Penguin Book of the British Short Story. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa

The quarter century before the outbreak of the First World War saw a boom in the popularity and quality of short stories in Britain. This was the era

Winner of a Somerset Maugham Award 1997 A stunning novel of political life, betrayal and passion, which lifts the lid on vice within th

A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of classic stories set in Berlin, by an international array of brilliant writers.Berlin has long been a magn

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

The most ambitious and daring novel novel yet from Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip Hensher. ‘A novel that's almost fizzy to the touch … A

‘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

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

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 mak

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