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'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 Times The quarter century between 1890 and the outbre...

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The 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 Asia the courtship, betrayal and invasion of Afghanistan in t...

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The 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 within the artisan cheese shop, its residents live lives that are...

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An epic chronicle of the last 20 years of British life from the Booker longlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher.Beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading of Thatcher's government in 1996, 'The Northern Clemency' is P...

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The bestselling novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency and King of the Badgers.?The Mulberry Empire? is a seemingly straightforward historical novel that recounts an episode in the Great Game in central Asia ? ...

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After the success of The Northern Clemency, shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Philip Hensher brings us another slice of contemporary life, this time the peaceful civility and spiralling paranoia of a small English town.After the success o...

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After the success of The Northern Clemency, shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Philip Hensher brings us another slice of contemporary life, this time the peaceful civility and spiralling paranoia of a small English town.After the success o...

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The 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 from a writer who seems capable of anything? GuardianAn astoni...

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The 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 from a writer who seems capable of anything Guardian The Emp...

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Ten daring stories from ?a writer who seems capable of anything? (Guardian), the Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip HensherBackdrops vary in this collection of stories from the author of The Northern Clemency ? from turmoil in Sudan following the dea...

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SHORTLISTED 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. Beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading of Thatcher&a...

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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-shortlisted 'The Northern Clemency'."e;I was a baby during the war. We stayed inside for months. All my...

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The 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 from a writer who seems capable of anything? GuardianAn astoni...

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Ten daring stories from ?a writer who seems capable of anything? (Guardian), the Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip HensherBackdrops vary in this collection of stories from the author of The Northern Clemency ? from turmoil in Sudan following the dea...

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Its the book you should give someone who thinks they dont like novels Here is surely a future prizewinner that is easy to read and impossible to forget Melissa Katsoulis, The Times The things history will do at the bidding of love On a warm Sunday...

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?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 Su...

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'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 ...

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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 make with their own futures; and it's about the rare and joyous refusal to be disillusioned. Everyone ...

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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 make with their own futures; and it?s about the rare and joyous refusal to be disillusioned.Everyone r...

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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 make with their own futures; and it?s about the rare and joyous refusal to be disillusioned.Everyone r...

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A Small Revolution in Germany is about growing up, or refusing to accept what growing up means; its about the small dishonest pacts that people make with their own futures; and its about the rare and joyous refusal to be disillusioned. Everyone re...

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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 Masterful Telegraph A revelation Spectator The new nove...

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'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'Masterful' Telegraph'A revelation' SpectatorThe ...

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?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?Masterful? Telegraph?A revelation? SpectatorThe ne...

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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 Masterful Telegraph A revelation Spectator The new nove...

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'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 thing, you see' The British...

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This 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 magnificent stories never republished since their first a...

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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 walk...

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TELEGRAPH, INDEPENDENT, FINANCIAL TIMES AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Hilarious, exuberant, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular, and above all unexpected: these two extraordinary volumes contain the limitless possibilities of the British sho...

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