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The Medusa Frequency by Russell Hoban
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & 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: Children's & YA
'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
The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban
$14.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
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 Mouse and His Child (Faber Children's Classics) by Russell Hoban
$14.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
The Twenty-Elephant Restaurant by Russell Hoban
$16.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Reading Level: 5+
"This table," said the man. "What about the table?" said the woman. "It's wearing me out," said the man. What to do? The man makes a decision. He finds a tablewood tree, cuts it down, saws it up and makes a new table. There's nothing like a new table. This one is strong enough for elephants to dance on! ...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
Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Life in a city can be atomizing, isolating. And it certainly is for William G. and Neaera H., the strangers at the center of Russell Hoban's surprisingly heartwarming novel "Turtle Diary." William, a clerk at a used-book store, lives in a rooming house after a divorce that has left him without home or f ...Show more