Philip Hensher
Philip Hensher was born in south London, where he still lives. He was educated at Oxford and at Cambridge, where his doctorate was on eighteenth-century English painting, and worked for six years as a clerk in the House of Commons. His novels are Other Lulus (1994), Kitchen Venom (1996), which won a Somerset Maugham Award, Pleasured (1998), The Mulberry Empire (2002) and The Northern Clemency (2008). His short stories are collected as The Bedroom of the Mister’s Wife (1999). In addition he wrote the libretto for Thomas Adès’s opera, Powder Her Face.
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Fiction | The Online Edition
In Time of War
Philip Hensher
‘They set off, walking in a slow way without map or plan.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Brandy
Philip Hensher
‘So there is music and music. It is not easy, after all.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
To Feed the Night
Philip Hensher
‘They lived in London at the end of the nineteen eighties.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
Trying to Understand
Philip Hensher
‘I liked his humourless intelligence, so redundant and so excessive in an MP.’