Philip Hensher

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1995
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • Other Lulus

    This is a novel that explores music, lying, marriage and cooking against the backdrop of contemporary Vienna. Fledgling singer Friederike marries English music-tender Archy who claims to have discovered the lost last act of Alban Berg's opera Lulu....

  • The Mulberry Empire

    With Tolstoyan sweep and Dickensian vitality, this epically involving historical novel relates England’s tragic adventure in Afghanistan, which began with the triumphant arrival of the Army of the Indus in 1839 and ended three years later in rout a...

  • Kitchen Venom

  • The Northern Clemency

    In 1974, the Sellers family is transplanted from London to Sheffield in northern England. On the day they move in, the Glover household across the street is in upheaval: convinced that his wife is having an affair, Malcolm Glover has suddenly disappe...

  • King of the Badgers

    A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books 2011Far from London's crime and pollution, Hanmouth's wealthier residents live in picturesque, heavily mortgaged cottages in the center of a town packed with art...

  • Scenes from Early Life

    From the Man Bookerâ€"short-listed author of The Northern Clemency, a family and a nation -- Bangladesh -- are forged through storytelling, conversation, jokes, feuds, blood, songs, bravery, and sacrifice In late 1970 a boy named Saadi is born into a...

  • To Battersea Park

  • The Emperor Waltz

  • The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2

    'Eclectic, entertaining ... almost all British, if not human, life is here' Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'Mind-stretching, heart-breaking, beautifully-crafted fiction' Claire Harman, Evening Standard 'She would tear the house down - shatter the windows, ...



  • Tales of Persuasion

  • The Friendly Ones

    Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may be printed on the book, but Book name, contents, and author are exactly same as Hardcover Edi...

  • Berlin Stories

    A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of classic stories set in Berlin, by an international array of brilliant writers. Berlin has long been a magnet for writers and artists from all over. Since the nineteenth century when Dostoevsky sought in...

  • A Small Revolution in Germany

    A Small Revolution in Germany is about growing up, or refusing to accept what growing up means; it's about the small dishonest pacts that people make with their own futures; and it's about the rare and joyous refusal to be disillusioned. ...

  • The Golden Age of British Short Stories, 1890-1914

    'Excellent, entertaining and ingenious ... from Oscar Wilde to Arthur Conan Doyle, this fine anthology celebrates one of the richest moments in Britain's literary history' Sunday TimesThe quarter century between 1890 and the outbreak of the First Wor...

  • The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914

  • The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Philip Hensher has published 16 books.

Philip Hensher does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Philip Hensher, Other Lulus, was published in June 1995.

No. Philip Hensher does not write books in series.
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