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Philip Hensher

(1965 - )

About Philip Hensher

Philip Hensher was born in south London, where he still lives. He was educated at Oxford and Cambridge, wehre his doctorate was an eighteenth-century English painting, and worked for six years as a clerk in the House of Commons.

Novels

Other Lulus (1994)
Kitchen Venom (1996)
Pleasured (1998)
The Mulberry Empire (2002)
The Fit (2004)
The Northern Clemency (2008)

Collections

The Bedroom of the Mister's Wife (1999)

Awards

The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2008) : The Northern Clemency

Philip Hensher recommends

In the Place of Fallen Leaves (1993) Tim Pears "An engaging, well-written and original novel. Pears could write about doing the washing up and make it interesting."	My Name Is Legion (2004) A N Wilson "I loved it."	Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald (2004) Penelope Fitzgerald "Of all the novelists in English of the last quarter-century, Penelope Fitzgerald has the most unarguable claim on greatness."

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