'Sometimes - not often - a book comes along that feels like Christmas. Philip Hensher's tim...

This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its wr...

Ten daring stories from 'a writer who seems capable of anything' (Guardian), the Booker Prize-...

A Small Revolution in Germany is about growing up, or refusing to accept what growing up means; i...

Berlin, in the words of Philip Hensher, editor of this anthology, 'has always been a city of d...

'Excellent, entertaining and ingenious ... from Oscar Wilde to Arthur Conan Doyle, this fin...

School is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Cust...

An epic chronicle of the last 20 years of British life from the Booker longlisted and Granta Best...

After the success of The Northern Clemency, shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Philip Hen...

With Tolstoyan sweep and Dickensian vitality, this epically involving historical novel relates En...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize: A novel of two “wonderful characters” who meet by a...

INTRODUCED BY PHILIP HENSHER'Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British...