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Philip Hensher
Philip Hensher’s novels include Kitchen Venom, which won the Somerset Maugham Award, Other Lulus and The Mulberry Empire, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the WH Smith ‘People’s Choice’ Award and highlighted by no fewer than twelve reviewers as their ‘book of the year’. Chosen by Granta to appear on their prestigious, once-a-decade list of the twenty best young British novelists, Philip Hensher is also a columnist for the Independent and chief book reviewer for the Spectator. His most recent novel, The Northern Clemency was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008. He lives in South London.
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SCENES FROM EARLY LIFE [ePub edition]
The startling new novel from the author of King of the Badgers and the Man Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency.
Publication date: UK 12th Apr 2012
SCENES FROM EARLY LIFE
The startling new novel from the author of King of the Badgers and the Man Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency.
Publication date: UK 12th Apr 2012
THE MULBERRY EMPIRE
The bestselling novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency and King of the Badgers.
Publication date: UK 29th Mar 2012
KING OF THE BADGERS
The new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of ‘The Northern Clemency’.
Publication date: UK 29th Mar 2012
THE NORTHERN CLEMENCY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008. An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher.
Publication date: UK 29th Mar 2012
KING OF THE BADGERS
After the success of The Northern Clemency, shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Philip Hensher brings us another slice of contemporary life, this time the peaceful civility and spiralling paranoia of a small English town.
Publication date: UK 31st Mar 2011
KING OF THE BADGERS [ePub edition]
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After the success of The Northern Clemency, shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Philip Hensher brings us another slice of contemporary life, this time the peaceful civility and spiralling paranoia of a small English town.
Publication date: UK 31st Mar 2011
THE NORTHERN CLEMENCY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008. An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher.
Publication date: UK 2nd Apr 2009
THE NORTHERN CLEMENCY [ePub edition]
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An epic chronicle of the last 20 years of British life from the Booker longlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher.
Publication date: UK 1st Oct 2008
THE FIT
From the author of The Mulberry Empire comes a short, delicious, rather disorienting novel about an indexer who wakes up one morning to find out that he has just been left by his wife…
Publication date: UK 4th Apr 2005
THE BEDROOM OF THE MISTER’S WIFE
From the bestselling author of The Mulberry Empire comes ‘a masterly collection of stories… astonishing’ Mail on Sunday
Publication date: UK 19th Jul 2004
PLEASURED
Perhaps the best novel yet about the collapse of the Berlin Wall, ‘at once cinematic, intimate and epic’ (The Times) – from Granta Best of British novelist Philip Hensher, author of the bestselling The Mulberry Empire.
Publication date: UK 19th Jul 2004