Philip Hensher

Scenes from Early Life

Ondaatje Prize 2013

by Philip Hensher

From the Man Booker–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...

The Missing Ink

by Philip Hensher

When Philip Hensher realized that he didn’t know what a close friend’s handwriting looked like (“bold or crabbed, sloping or upright, italic or rounded, elegant or slapdash”), he felt that something...

King of the Badgers

by Philip Hensher

A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011

One of The Telegraph’s Best Fiction Books 2011

Far from London’s crime and pollution, Hanmouth’s wealthier residents live in picturesque, heavily mortgaged...

The Mulberry Empire: A Novel

by Philip Hensher

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...

The Northern Clemency

by Philip Hensher

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...