Philip Hensher, geboren 1965, studierte in Oxford und Cambridge. Er arbeitete sechs Jahre lang als Parlamentssekretär und veröffentlichte mehrere Romane. Darüber hinaus verfasst er Libretti und schreibt für Magazine und Tageszeitungen.
22 Ebooks von Philip Hensher
William Golding: Darkness Visible
The destinies of three mysterious lost children entwine in this James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning fable by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies. A figure had condensed out …
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Philip Hensher: Die Stadt hinter der Mauer
Als in Berlin die Uhren anders gingen: Friedrich will das Abenteuer – in Kreuzberg, weit weg von westdeutscher Spießigkeit. Mr. Picker, der eigenwillige Engländer, will die DDR zum Träumen bringen – …
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Philip Hensher: Northern Clemency
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 …
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€6.99
Philip Hensher: Mulberry Empire
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 …
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€11.29
Philip Hensher: King of the Badgers
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 para …
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€9.89
Philip Hensher: Emperor Waltz
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 …
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€12.49
Philip Hensher: Tales of Persuasion
Ten 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 Northern C …
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Philip Hensher: Scenes from Early Life
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‘."I was a baby duri …
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€7.79
Philip Hensher: Friendly Ones
‚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 Times The things …
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Philip Hensher: Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2
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 …
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Penelope Fitzgerald: Gate of Angels
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize: A novel of two “wonderful characters” who meet by accident in Edwardian England, and fall inconveniently in love (The Washington Post). In 1912, r …
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Elizabeth Taylor: Soul Of Kindness
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 …
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Philip Hensher: Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1
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 …
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€8.99
Philip Hensher: Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story
‚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 intr …
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Philip Hensher: Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914
‚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 ce …
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Penelope Fitzgerald: Das College
Cambridge 1912: Ein harmloser Fahrradunfall bringt die wohlgeordnete Welt des jungen Wissenschaftlers Fred durcheinander. Er verliebt sich in eine unbekannte junge Frau – und das lässt sich mit den G …
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Margaret Drabble & Tim Etchells: Book of Sheffield
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 Hi …
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Philip Hensher: Small Revolution in Germany
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 a …
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€6.99
Geoffrey Willans: Molesworth
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 l …
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Philip Hensher: To Battersea Park
‚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‘ …
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€13.49
