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Berlin Stories by Philip Hensher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Berlin, 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 the progressive 19th... -
To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.11'A brilliantly conceived and audacious novel from one of our most consistently intelligent and beguiling writers' William Boyd 'Surefooted and emotionally generous ... A serious... -
The Fit by Philip Hensher 9780007174829
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28From the author of The Mulberry Empire comes a short, delicious, rather disorienting novel about an indexer who wakes up one morning to find out that he has just been left by his wife... ... -
The Emperor Waltz by Philip Hensher
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.73The most ambitious and daring novel novel yet from Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip Hensher. 'A novel that's almost fizzy to the touch ... A performance of extraordinary flair and majesty... -
Tales of Persuasion by Philip Hensher
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.99Ten daring stories from 'a writer who seems capable of anything' (Guardian), the Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip Hensher Backdrops vary in this collection of stories from the author of The... -
Pleasured by Philip Hensher 9780007180202
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Perhaps the best novel yet about the collapse of the Berlin Wall, 'at once cinematic, intimate and epic' (The Times) - from Granta Best of British novelist Philip Hensher, author of the bestselling... -
To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher 9780008323141
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.55‘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... -
The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher 9780007112272
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.26The bestselling novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency and King of the Badgers. 'The Mulberry Empire' recounts an episode in the Great Game in central... -
Kitchen Venom by Philip Hensher 9781961341906
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.67"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... -
The Missing Ink by Philip Hensher 9780865478022
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478022Author Philip HensherFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Farrar, Strauss &... -
The Friendly Ones by Philip Hensher 9780008175658
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86'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... -
A Small Revolution in Germany by Philip Hensher
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63A 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; and it's... -
Kitchen Venom by Philip Hensher 9780007152421
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.58Winner of a Somerset Maugham Award 1997 A stunning novel of political life, betrayal and passion, which lifts the lid on vice within the Palace of Westminster...and cost Hensher his job as... -
King of the Badgers by Philip Hensher 9780007301348
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of 'The Northern Clemency'. Hanmouth: a quiet, picturesque English seaside town. But behind closed, Georgian front doors and the... -
King of the Badgers by Philip Hensher 9780865478749
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £21.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478749Author Philip HensherFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Farrar, Strauss &... -
The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher 9781400030897
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400030897Author Philip HensherFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random... -
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher 9780007461684
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58SHORTLISTED 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 Hensher... -
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher 9781400095872
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400095872Author Philip HensherFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Random House IncPublisher... -
Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher 9780865478053
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478053Author Philip HensherFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Strauss &... -
The Friendly Ones by Philip Hensher 9780008175658 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.40'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... -
A Small Revolution in Germany by Philip Hensher 9780008323073 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.51A 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; and it's... -
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story by Philip Hensher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Sometimes - not often - a book comes along that feels like Christmas. Philip Hensher's timely, but timeless, selection of the best short stories from the past 20 years is that kind of book. His... -
Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher 9780007450107 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.92Winner 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'. "I was a... -
The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914 by Philip Hensher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'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... -
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2: From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith by Philip Hensher
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones. The most famous authors are here, and many others, including some... -
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1: From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan by Philip Hensher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A bold anthology ... alive with provocations and insights' John Carey, Sunday Times'The Boy-scouts mistook my signal, and have killed the postman. I've had very little practice in this sort of... -
House of Glass by Susan Fletcher 9780349007649
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £4.21I had a curious sense of being watched.June 1914 and a young woman - Clara Waterfield - is summoned to a large stone house in Gloucestershire. Her task: to fill a greenhouse with exotic plants from... -
House of Glass by Susan Fletcher
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02June 1914 and a young woman - Clara Waterfield - is summoned to a large stone house in Gloucestershire. Her task: to fill a greenhouse with exotic plants from Kew Gardens, to create a private... -
Bullet Park by John Cheever
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park, the two become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding... -
Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham 9780007156061
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Hours', time, technology and love are the central concerns of a provocative novel that calls to mind David Mitchell's 'Cloud Atlas'. Lucas,... -
The Fourth Shore by Virginia Baily 9780708898499
Booksplease Price: £3.99The Fourth Shore: the sliver of fertile land along the Tripoli coast, the 'lost' territory Mussolini promised to reclaim for Italy. Which is how, in 1929, seventeen-year-old Liliana Cattaneo arrives... -
The Fourth Shore by Virginia Baily
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.01'Effortlessly enjoyable . . . an emotionally rewarding novel so succulent with detail that you can almost feel the Tripoli sand storms whipping across your face' Daily Mail The Fourth Shore: the... -
The Voice in My Ear by Frances Leviston
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Superbly written and fearlessly imagined fiction' Sarah HallTen women, all called Claire, are tangled up in complex power dynamics with their families, friends, and lovers. Though all are different... -
A History of the Booker Prize: Contemporary Fiction Since 1992 Merritt Moseley 9781032019109
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52In this book, Merritt Moseley offers a brief history of the Booker Prize since 1992. With a short chapter covering each year, we follow the change in criteria, the highs and lows, short lists,... -
Collected Stories by Thomas Mann
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05Famous for his novels, Thomas Mann is more accessible through the shorter fictions which span his entire career. The most famous of these stories is one of the earliest. Death in Venice was made into... -
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write,... -
The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth by William Boyd
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only passionate kisses as a substitute. A man recounts his personal history through the things he has stolen from others... -
Night for Day by Patrick Flanery
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.40A feverish vision of McCarthy-era Hollywood...Los Angeles, 1950. Over the course of a single day, two friends grapple with the moral and professional uncertainties of the escalating Communist... -
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns by Dohra Ahmad
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Spanning a period of over three hundred years and twenty-five countries, The Penguin Book of Migration Literature is a wide-ranging anthology that brings together well-known authors such as Mohsin... -
Bachelors Anonymous by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43Much married American movie mogul Ivor Llewellyn depends on his friends at Bachelors Anonymous to keep him out of romantic entanglements on his trip to London. First, they arrange for Joe Pickering...