Awards
The Man Booker Prize (nominee)
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The Man Booker Prize (nominee)
An epic chronicle of the last 20 years of British life from the Booker longlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher. Beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading of Thatcher's government in 1996, 'The Northern Clemency' is Philip Hensher's epic portrait of an entire era, a novel concerned with the lives of ordinary people and history on the move. Set in Sheffield, it charts the relationship between two families: Malcolm and Katherine Glover and their three children; and their neighbours the Sellers family, newly arrived from London so that Bernie can pursue his job with the Electricity Board. The day the Sellers move in there is a crisis across the road: Malcolm Glover has left home, convinced his wife is having an affair. The consequences of this rupture will spread throughout the lives of both couples and their children, in particular 10-year-old Tim Glover, who never quite recovers from a moment of his mother's public cruelty and the amused taunting of 15-year-old Sandra Sellers, childhood crises that will come to a head twenty years later.In the background, England is changing: from a manufacturing and industrial based economy into a new world of shops, Inspired by the expansive scale and webs of relationships of the great nineteenth-century Russian novels, 'The Northern Clemency' shows Philip Hensher to be one of our greatest chroniclers of English life.
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Hardback Editions
October 2008 : Hardback
| Title: The Northern Clemency Author(s): Philip Hensher ISBN: 0-00-730899-X / 978-0-00-730899-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Fourth Estate Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
October 2008 : Hardback
| Title: The Northern Clemency Author(s): Philip Hensher ISBN: 1-4000-4448-0 / 978-1-4000-4448-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2008 : Hardback
| Title: The Northern Clemency Author(s): Philip Hensher ISBN: 0-00-717479-9 / 978-0-00-717479-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Fourth Estate Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
2008 : Hardback
| Title: The Northern Clemency Author(s): Philip Hensher ISBN: 0-00-730712-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback Editions
March 2012 : Paperback
| Title: The Northern Clemency Author(s): Philip Hensher ISBN: 0-00-746168-2 / 978-0-00-746168-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Fourth Estate Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
February 2010 : Paperback
| Title: The Northern Clemency Author(s): Philip Hensher ISBN: 1-4000-9587-5 / 978-1-4000-9587-2 (USA edition) Publisher: Anchor Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 2009 : Paperback
| Title: Northern Clemency, The Author(s): Philip Hensher ISBN: 0-00-730927-9 / 978-0-00-730927-6 (UK edition) Publisher: HarperPerennial Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
April 2009 : Paperback
| Title: The Northern Clemency Author(s): Philip Hensher ISBN: 0-00-717480-2 / 978-0-00-717480-5 (UK edition) Publisher: Harper Perennial Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
September 2008 : Paperback
| Title: The Northern Clemency Author(s): Philip Hensher ISBN: 0-00-727248-0 / 978-0-00-727248-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Fourth Estate Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Audio Editions
January 2009 : Audio CD
| Title: The Northern Clemency (unabridged audio book) Author(s): Philip Hensher, narrated by Carole Boyd ISBN: 1-4074-3073-4 / 978-1-4407-2749-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Whole Story Audio Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2008 : Audio CD
| Title: The Northern Clemency Author(s): Philip Hensher ISBN: 1-4407-2750-3 / 978-1-4407-2750-4 Publisher: RecordedBooks Availability: Amazon More details... |
2008 : Audio Cassette
| Title: The Northern Clemency Author(s): Philip Hensher ISBN: 1-4074-3071-8 / 978-1-4074-3071-3 (UK edition) Publisher: RecordedBooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Other Editions
October 2008 : Kindle edition
| Title: The Northern Clemency Author(s): Philip Hensher Publisher: Anchor Availability: Amazon More details... |
October 2008 : Kindle edition
| Title: The Northern Clemency Author(s): Philip Hensher Publisher: Fourth Estate Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
2008 : Unknown
| Title: THE NORTHERN CLEMENCY Author(s): Philip Hensher Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon More details... |
2008 : Unknown
| Title: THE NORTHERN CLEMENCY Author(s): Philip Hensher Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon More details... |
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