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Bread and Jam for Frances (Paperback): Russell Hoban Bread and Jam for Frances (Paperback)
Russell Hoban; Illustrated by Lillian Hoban
R179 R169 Discovery Miles 1 690 Save R10 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Riddley Walker (Paperback): Russell Hoban Riddley Walker (Paperback)
Russell Hoban
R304 R276 Discovery Miles 2 760 Save R28 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'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, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece' Observer 'A timeless portrayal of the human condition ... frightening and uncanny' Will Self 'A book that I could read every day forever and still be finding things' Max Porter

Harvey's Hideout (Hardcover): Russell Hoban Harvey's Hideout (Hardcover)
Russell Hoban; Illustrated by Lillian Hoban
R413 R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Save R23 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For big sisters and little brothers in dens, burrows, and houses everywhere. "Mildred," said Father Muskrat, "it is true that Harvey is selfish and inconsiderate, but he is not stupid and no-good. Mildred is loudmouthed and bossy," Father said to Harvey, "but she is not mean and rotten." When Mildred goes off to a big party where little brothers are not invited, Harvey finds a secret club in a secret place where big sisters are not allowed to be members. But when Harvey's lonesomeness overpowers his stubbornness, he discovers that a secret club with two members is much better.

Bread and Jam for Frances (Hardcover, Newly illustrated ed): Russell Hoban Bread and Jam for Frances (Hardcover, Newly illustrated ed)
Russell Hoban; Illustrated by Lillian Hoban
R509 R479 Discovery Miles 4 790 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Frances, one of children's best-loved characters for over 30 years, now springs to life even more in Bread and Jam for Frances,beautifully reillustrated in sparkling full color by Lillian Hoban. In this memorable story, Frances decides that bread and jam are all she wants to eat, and her understanding parents grant her wish'at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and even snacktime. Can there ever be too much bread and jam?

Turtle Diary (Paperback): Russell Hoban Turtle Diary (Paperback)
Russell Hoban
R300 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Save R29 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'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 illustrator, have begun thinking turtle thoughts. As they come together to hatch a plan to release the turtles into the sea, their diaries reveal how they find their own lives changing in imperceptible and quite unintended ways. 'Crackles with witty detail, mordant intelligence and self-deprecating irony' Time 'This lovely human fable seems to me one of the best things of its kind - a fine and touching achievement' John Fowles

A Baby Sister for Frances (Paperback): Russell Hoban A Baby Sister for Frances (Paperback)
Russell Hoban
R244 R228 Discovery Miles 2 280 Save R16 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When a baby sister arrives, Frances the badger finds a charming way to prove her own importance. ‘A familiar family situation, treated with understanding and humor.’ —E.

The Mouse and His Child (Paperback, Main): Russell Hoban The Mouse and His Child (Paperback, Main)
Russell Hoban 1
R277 R252 Discovery Miles 2 520 Save R25 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Funny, thought-provoking and moving, this much loved story is a true classic. '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 dustbin and repaired by a tramp, they set out on a dangerous quest for a family and a place of their own - the magnificent doll's house, the plush elephant and the tin seal they had once know in the toy shop. 'Hugely funny, provocative, pathetic and heroic.' TLS 'Brilliantly plotted . . . a spellbinder . . . it has a style that glows and crackles.' Spectator

Frog and Toad and Friends Box Set (Paperback): Various, Jeff Brown, John Grogan, Catherine Hapka, Russell Hoban, Katharine... Frog and Toad and Friends Box Set (Paperback)
Various, Jeff Brown, John Grogan, Catherine Hapka, Russell Hoban, …
R1,044 R854 Discovery Miles 8 540 Save R190 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Medusa Frequency (Paperback): Russell Hoban The Medusa Frequency (Paperback)
Russell Hoban
R298 R269 Discovery Miles 2 690 Save R29 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'Sparkles with classical allusions and a wisecracking humour ... it is pure joy' Daily Telegraph It 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 dreamworld populated by figures mythical and real: a severed talking head, Vermeer's girl with a pearl earring, his lost love Luise and, beneath it all, the Kraken awaiting. As Herman will discover, creating art is a tough business. 'One of his most accessibly entertaining books' The Times 'Short, smart and fizzy, the novel seeks out the roots of creativity with none of the solemnity that phrase implies' New Statesman

Bread and Jam for Frances (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition): Russell Hoban Bread and Jam for Frances (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition)
Russell Hoban; Illustrated by Lillian Hoban
R149 R130 Discovery Miles 1 300 Save R19 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Frances is a fussy eater. In fact, the only thing she likes is bread and jam. She won't touch her squishy soft-boiled egg. She trades away her chicken-salad sandwich at lunch. She turns up her nose at boring veal cutlets. Unless Mother can come up with a plan, Frances just might go on eating bread and jam forever

A Bargain for Frances (Paperback, Abridged edition): Russell Hoban A Bargain for Frances (Paperback, Abridged edition)
Russell Hoban
R157 R149 Discovery Miles 1 490 Save R8 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Frances and Thelma are friends -- most of the time

Thelma always seems to get Frances into trouble. When she tricks Frances into buying her tea set, it's the last straw. Can Frances show her that it's better to lose a bargain than lose a friend?

Missing (Paperback): Walter de la Mare, Russell Hoban Missing (Paperback)
Walter de la Mare, Russell Hoban
R92 R76 Discovery Miles 760 Save R16 (17%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With London in the grip of a heat wave, a man takes refuge from the scorching sun in a nearby tea shop, only to share his table with a stranger who seems determined to make conversation. Too polite to ignore him, he becomes his reluctant confidant, as harmless small talk gives way to dark memories. "Missing" is the first of three unsettling stories of guilty secrets, past hurts, and haunted lives from one of the foremost English writers of the 20th century. Remembered chiefly as a poet, and in particular for his visionary poem "The Traveller," Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was also acclaimed as a writer of short stories.

Kleinzeit (Paperback): Russell Hoban Kleinzeit (Paperback)
Russell Hoban
R300 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Save R29 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'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 quest involving, among other things, a glockenspiel, sheets of yellow paper, Orpheus, the Underground and that dirty chimpanzee, Death. 'Kleinzeit, is a sort of holy fool, a fierce, lonely intelligence desperately trying to make sense of a hopeless world. A tour de force ... entirely delightful' Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard

A Birthday for Frances (Paperback, Newly illustrated ed): Russell Hoban A Birthday for Frances (Paperback, Newly illustrated ed)
Russell Hoban; Illustrated by Lillian Hoban
R245 R213 Discovery Miles 2 130 Save R32 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

s her little sister Gloria's birthday approaches, Frances wavers between being generous'and being jealous. ‘[Frances] is every youngster who chafes at being the un-birthday child.

Bedtime for Frances (Paperback, Newly illustrated ed): Russell Hoban Bedtime for Frances (Paperback, Newly illustrated ed)
Russell Hoban; Illustrated by Garth Williams
R243 R210 Discovery Miles 2 100 Save R33 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Famed for her many adventures, Frances made her debut with this title over thirty years ago. In this first Frances book, the little badger adroitly delays her bedtime with requests for kisses and milk, and concerns over tigers and giants and things going bump in the night. Long a favorite for the gentle humor of its familiar going to bed ritual, Bedtime for Frances is at last available with the warmth of full color enriching Garth Williams’s original nuanced and touching art. ‘Here is the coziest, most beguiling bedtime story in many a day.’—Kirkus Reviews (pointer).

Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (Hardcover): Russell Hoban Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (Hardcover)
Russell Hoban; Illustrated by Lillian Hoban
R429 R403 Discovery Miles 4 030 Save R26 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bedtime for Frances (Hardcover): Russell Hoban Bedtime for Frances (Hardcover)
Russell Hoban; Illustrated by Garth Williams
R502 R471 Discovery Miles 4 710 Save R31 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Famed for her many adventures, Frances made her debut with this title over thirty years ago. In this first Frances book, the little badger adroitly delays her bedtime with requests for kisses and milk, and concerns over tigers and giants and things going bump in the night. Long a favorite for the gentle humor of its familiar going to bed ritual, Bedtime for Frances is at last available with the warmth of full color enriching Garth Williams’s original nuanced and touching art. ‘Here is the coziest, most beguiling bedtime story in many a day.’—Kirkus Reviews (pointer).

The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz (Paperback): Russell Hoban The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz (Paperback)
Russell Hoban
R299 R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Save R29 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'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 consequences. He will be pursued by his son, Boaz-Jachin, and by something else: a tawny-skinned, amber-eyed beast from another place and time, a bringer of life and death. 'Magic at work ... Funny as well as beautiful' Irish Times 'Hoban is unclassifiable, thank goodness. His narrative is so minutely and compellingly realistic that after a time you cease to notice that he has stood reality on its head' Sunday Times

Pilgermann (Paperback): Russell Hoban Pilgermann (Paperback)
Russell Hoban
R304 R276 Discovery Miles 2 760 Save R28 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'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 mesmerising recreation of the world of the Crusades, following its unlikely hero and those he meets on a journey of picaresque horror across a Europe of hatreds, visions and a desperate wish for salvation. 'A dark treatise on the mysterious nature of things ... The world according to Pilgermann is a brutish place borrowing from Hieronymus Bosch, pilgrimage narrative, allegory and the historical novel' The New York Times Book Review 'A strange and beautiful work' Evening Standard

Fremder (Paperback): Russell Hoban Fremder (Paperback)
Russell Hoban
R299 R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Save R29 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'Recalls Orwell's 1984 and Wells's The Time Machine ... a revelation' Guardian On 4 November 2052, Fremder Gorn is discovered drifting in deep space. He has no spacesuit, no helmet, no oxygen, but he is still alive: the sole survivor from the mysteriously vanished ship Clever Daughter. How did he get here? To find out, Fremder must search through memory, dream and the unknowable fragments of his own mind. 'A wildly imaginative piece of science fiction' The Times 'Unputdownable, moving, ingenious ... it will remain in my head with troubling images and scenes for a long time' A. N. Wilson, Evening Standard

Best Friends for Frances (Hardcover, Newly illustrated ed): Russell Hoban Best Friends for Frances (Hardcover, Newly illustrated ed)
Russell Hoban; Illustrated by Lillian Hoban
R501 R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Save R31 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The irrepressible Frances teaches Albert, the badger next door, about friendship. ‘Full of the humor and homely details of family life that make [the Frances stories] beloved by both children and adults.’ —H.

Children's Books of the Year 1969 (CSA)

Best Friends for Frances (Paperback): Russell Hoban Best Friends for Frances (Paperback)
Russell Hoban; Illustrated by Lillian Hoban
R127 R112 Discovery Miles 1 120 Save R15 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Frances doesn't think her younger sister Gloria can be her best friend. Besides, Albert is Frances's best friend. But when Albert has a no-girls baseball game, Franes sets out to prove to Albert a thing or two about friendship - and what girls can do. Along the way, Frances discovers that sisters can indeed be friends... maybe even best friends.

Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer (Paperback): Russell Hoban Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer (Paperback)
Russell Hoban
R300 R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Save R30 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'Russell Hoban's imagination knows no bounds ... darkly funny and profound' The Times 'You want to buy my death for a million pounds!' Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the Devil, but this is where Jonathan Fitch first meets Mr Rinyo-Clacton. Devastated after his girlfriend Serafina has left him, Jonathan agrees that this mysterious stranger will pay him a million pounds for a year, if he agrees to die at the end of it. What could possibly go wrong? 'A poignant and engaging fable of ownership and surrender' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday 'Nothing is accidental or optional in this jewelled clockwork egg of a book ... Hoban is a hugely skilled, moving and endlessly entertaining writer' The Times Literary Supplement

Bread and Jam for Frances (Paperback, 1st HarperTrophy ed): Russell Hoban Bread and Jam for Frances (Paperback, 1st HarperTrophy ed)
Russell Hoban
R242 R210 Discovery Miles 2 100 Save R32 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Frances, one of children's best-loved characters for over 30 years, now springs to life even more in Bread and Jam for Frances,beautifully reillustrated in sparkling full color by Lillian Hoban. In this memorable story, Frances decides that bread and jam are all she wants to eat, and her understanding parents grant her wish'at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and even snacktime. Can there ever be too much bread and jam?

Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Chucklers: Level 20: The Lobster's Birthday and Other Stories (Paperback): Catherine Baker Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Chucklers: Level 20: The Lobster's Birthday and Other Stories (Paperback)
Catherine Baker; Series edited by Jeremy Strong; Morris Gleitzman, Russell Hoban, Richmal Crompton, …
R313 R282 Discovery Miles 2 820 Save R31 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In The Lobster's Birthday and Other Stories, discover what happens when you wake up thirsty in the middle of the night. How do you play a trick on the most insufferable boy in the village, while helping out Aunt Arabelle at the same time? What would you do on your birthday if you were a lobster? Find out when you join Harriet, Just William, and Harold and Gloria in this comical collection of short stories. Chucklers is a series of funny novels, short stories, anthologies and comics that make reading a pleasure for 7-11 year olds. There is something for everyone in this varied collection which is packed with fantastic illustrations. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk. The series is written by top children's authors and edited by award-winning author Jeremy Strong. The books are finely levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book.

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