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Kleinzeit by Russell Hoban
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'An original ... a delight to read' The Times On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward A4, he falls in love with the divine, rosy-cheeked Sister and is sent spinning into a que ...Show more
Pilgermann by Russell Hoban
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Superb ... Pilgermann is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple' Guardian It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric design that will change the lives of all those who see it. Pilgermann is a me ...Show more
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy & Sci-Fi | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This is what literature is meant to be' Anthony Burgess'O what we ben! And what we come to...' Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilization, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his story.'Funny, te ...Show more
The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz by Russell Hoban
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A piece of invention as original as any of Tolkien's or C.S. Lewis's' New Statesman 'I have gone to look for a lion.' In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his wife and son to find one, leaving just this note. But his decision has unexpected consequ ...Show more
The Marzipan Pig by Russell Hoban
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
"There is," said the marzipan pig, "such sweetness in me!"From the inimitable team of Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake, the pair behind Captain Najork and The Twenty Elephant Restaurant, comes an enchanting story of a little pig made of marzipan. Fallen behind the sofa, nobody hears the lost marzipan pig ...Show more
Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Wonderful, life-saving ... places Russell Hoban among the greatest, timeless novelists' The Times Born to swim thousands of miles in the ocean, the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of golden-green water at London Zoo. But not for much longer. Two lonely people, a bookseller and a children's ...Show more
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