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A Baby Sister for Frances (I Can Read Level 2) by Russell Hoban
$7.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: I Can Read Level 2
With a new addition to the family, Frances is feeling left out. So Frances decides to run away—but not too far! This new edition of Russell and Lillian Hoban’s beloved classic is perfect for beginning readers.
Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban
$14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Picture Books
Starring Frances, America's favorite badger, this beloved picture book is now available in the always-appealing 8x8 format!Frances is a fussy eater. In fact, the only thing she likes is bread and jam. So she's delighted when Mother and Father grant her wish and give her bread and jam at every meal. This ...Show more
Fremder by Russell Hoban
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Fourth Galaxy, 4 November 2052- in the blackness of space a figure in blue overalls tumbles over and over as it drifts towards the planet Badr-al-Budur. No space suit, no helmet, no oxygen. He can't be alive, can he? But he is. First Navigator Fremder Gorn is the only survivor when the Corporation tanke ...Show more
Kleinzeit by Russell Hoban
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer by Russell Hoban
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Serial philanderer Jonathan Fitch is distraught when his girlfriend Serafina leaves him. In a desperate state at Piccadilly Circus underground station, he meets wealthy, mysterious Mr Rinyo-Clacton, and ends up agreeing to a Faustian pact- Mr Rinyo-Clacton will give Jonathan one million pounds, if he ag ...Show more
Pilgermann by Russell Hoban
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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: Fiction | 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
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Set in a post-apocalyptic England, RIDDLEY WALKER tells the tale of one twelve year old boy and his journey through the ruins of civilisation. After the death of his father in an accident, Riddley must become a man. But his inquiring mind and strange ways set him apart from his people, and when he disco ...Show more
The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz by Russell Hoban
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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 Medusa Frequency by Russell Hoban
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Sparkles with classical allusions and a wisecracking humour ... it is pure joy' Daily TelegraphIt all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promising a magical cure for writer's block. The strange treatment plunges him into a hallucinatory London dreamw ...Show more
The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban
$14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
'What are we, Papa?' the toy mouse child asked his father. 'I don't know,' the father answered. 'We must wait and see.' So begins the story of a tin father and son who dance under a Christmas tree until they break the ancient clockwork rules and are themselves broken. Thrown away, then rescued from a du ...Show more
Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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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