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.
Genres: Literary Fiction, General Fiction
Novels
Other Lulus (1994)
Kitchen Venom (1996)
Pleasured (1998)
The Mulberry Empire (2002)
The Fit (2004)
The Northern Clemency (2008)
King of the Badgers (2011)
Scenes from Early Life (2012)
The Emperor Waltz (2014)
The Friendly Ones (2018)
A Small Revolution in Germany (2020)
To Battersea Park (2023)
Kitchen Venom (1996)
Pleasured (1998)
The Mulberry Empire (2002)
The Fit (2004)
The Northern Clemency (2008)
King of the Badgers (2011)
Scenes from Early Life (2012)
The Emperor Waltz (2014)
The Friendly Ones (2018)
A Small Revolution in Germany (2020)
To Battersea Park (2023)
Collections
Anthologies edited
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story I (2015)
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story II (2015)
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story (2018)
The Golden Age of British Short Stories: 1890-1914 (2020)
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story II (2015)
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story (2018)
The Golden Age of British Short Stories: 1890-1914 (2020)
Non fiction show
Books containing stories by Philip Hensher
Awards
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Award nominations
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Philip Hensher recommends
Lazarus Is Dead (2011)
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So I Have Thought of You (2004)
Penelope Fitzgerald
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