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List of works by Russell Hoban
This page lists all known Russell Hoban books and other works (collectively referred to as "titles"). The titles that have a full information page with a synopsis, jacket image and publication details are linked accordingly; titles that are not linked require information to be added. If you can help provide information on unlinked titles please see this page for more details.
Novels
The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz (Jonathan Cape, 1973)
Kleinzeit (Jonathan Cape, 1974)
Turtle Diary (Jonathan Cape, 1975)
Riddley Walker (Jonathan Cape, 1980)
Pilgermann (Jonathan Cape, 1983)
The Medusa Frequency (Jonathan Cape, 1987)
Fremder (Jonathan Cape, 1996)
Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer (Jonathan Cape, 1998)
Angelica's Grotto (Bloomsbury, 1999)
Amaryllis Night and Day (Bloomsbury, 2001)
The Bat Tattoo (Bloomsbury, 2002)
Her Name Was Lola (Bloomsbury, 2003)
Come Dance With Me (Bloomsbury, 2005)
Linger Awhile (Bloomsbury, 2006)
My Tango with Barbara Strozzi (Bloomsbury, 2007)
Angelica Lost and Found (Bloomsbury, 2010)
Children's books
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Young adult books
The Mouse and His Child (Harper & Row, 1967)
The Trokeville Way (Jonathan Cape, 1996)
Soonchild (Walker Books, 2012)
Uncollected short stories
Message in a Klein Bottle (2012)
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Uncollected non-fiction, essays and sketches
One Less Octopus at Paxos (Granta 10, Winter 1983)
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Collections
The Moment under The Moment (Jonathan Cape, 1992) - comprises:
Short stories:
The Man with the Dagger
My Night with Léonie
Schwartz
The Raven
The Colour of Love
Dream Woman
Dark Oliver
The Ghost Horse of Genghis Khan
Some Episodes in the History of Miranda and Caliban - an entertainment in two acts with music by Helen Roe
Non-fiction, essays and sketches:
Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm (1976, an introduction to the 1977 Picador Edition)
Portknockie (1981)
Footplacers, London Transport Owls, Wincer-Boise (1982)
Mnemosyne, Teen Taals, and Tottenham Court Road (1982)
Fragments of a Lament for Thelonious Monk (1983)
Pan Lives (1983)
'I, that was a child, my tongue's use sleeping...' (1984)
Certain Obsessions, Certain Ideas (1985-6)
The Bear in Max Ernst's Bedroom or The Magic Wallet (1987)
Blighter's Rock (1989)
North (1989)
Masada One Morning (1990)
With a Choked Cry (1991)
Word Pix (1991)
A Russell Hoban Omnibus (Indiana University Press, 1999) - comprises:
Novels:
The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
Turtle Diary
Pilgermann
Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer
Short stories:
The Man with the Dagger
My Night with Léonie
The Raven
Dream Woman
Dark Oliver
The Ghost Horse of Genghis Khan
Essays/non-fiction:
"I, that was a child, my tongue's use sleeping"
With a Choked Cry
Poems:
03:00 Abroad
Crystal Maze
The Owl-Woman
Turtle Prince?
Fred to Samantha
Dragon into Dressing Gown
The Hippogriff
What the Fairy Said to the Bibliophile
The Dragon underneath the Mat
Children's writing:
The Marzipan Pig
Manny Rat: A Fragment (from the unfinished novel The Return of Manny Rat, a sequel to The Mouse and his Child).
Poetry
The Pedalling Man (1968):
To Walter de la Mare, 1873-1956
What the Wind Said
The Crow
The Sparrow Hawk
Skilly Oogan
One Star Less
September Passing
The Pedalling Man
Small, Smaller
Bugle
Goodbye to Winter
Evening of the First of May
The Smell of Old Fire
Summer Recorded
Fast Freight
The Empty House
Typo
London City
Esmé on Her Brother's Bicycle
Laura Round and Round
Katya Plays Haydn
The Tin Frog
Original Tin
Solu the Barber
Isleford Shore
Old Man Ocean
Maine Sea Gulls
The Sea Gull's Eye
Not a Big Job
Tea Party
The Friendly Cinnamon Bun
Home From the Carnival
Anfruca
The Sandpiper in the Shopping Centre Parking Lot
School Buses
Boy with a Hammer
Winter Ducks
Three Ragged Boys
His Majesty
Hound and Hunter
The above list includes 13 poems not originally included in the 1968 edition, added in the 1989 edition.
The Last of the Wallendas (Hodder Children's Books, 1997):
The Plughole Dragon
03.00 Abroad
Crystal Maze
Three Ducklings Crossing A Footpath
Three Ducklings Swimming
The Story Tree
The Owl-Woman
Pigeon on the Circle Line
Not My Day
Room 18, National Gallery
Lion Bells
The Dream of the Kraken
Kong
Who Did Then?
Monsters
Ice Bears
The Last of the Wallendas
Foggy Morning
Turtle Prince?
Long-Gone Pearl
Alison Vickers
Mermaid
Big Stone Women of Vienna
Long Green Dream
The Raiders
Long, Lone
What the Crow Knows
Rodney's All Right Now
The Dragon Klong
The Green Bronze Lady by the Albert Bridge
Thames Full Moon
Portknockie
TV Horror
Chopin - Mazurka in A Minor, Opus 67, No. 4
The Ghost Horse of Chingis Khan
Fred to Samantha
K219
Miss Presser in Sloane Square
Circles of Storks
At Dimla
Dragon Into Dressing Gown
It's Always Kee-Wick
The Hippogriff
Sheepy-Time Goats
Rivers In Your Mind
What the Fairy Said to the Bibliophile
The Dragon Underneath the Mat
The Fighting Temeraire
Statuesque Modesty
The District Line at Notting Hill Gate
The Rendezvous at Zarmni
My Last Dragon
Libretti
The Second Mrs Kong (1994)
See also Some Episodes in the History of Miranda and Caliban from The Moment under The Moment, above
Plays
Film
Deadsy and Door - two surreal animated shorts written and narrated by Russell Hoban, directed by David Anderson (1989/1990)
Recordings
Manfred Mann, Wherever Love Drops - Wikipedia
Radio
Perfect and Endless Circles (short story with music arranged by Anthony Rooley, first broadcast on BBC Radio 3, 23 September 1995, according to this site)
Situation 37 (short story first broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 22 November 2004)
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