Philip Hensher is a columnist for the Independent, arts critic for the Spectator and a Granta Best of Young British novelist. He has written six novels, including The Mulberry Empire and the Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency, and one collection of short stories. He lives in South London.
Praise for Philip Hensher: 'Hensher is fascinatingly good on how social transformation manifests itself in the textures, colours and manners of a culture... extremely funny, but also deeply humane' Sunday Times 'Hensher is an anatomist of familial tensions ... He has an impeccable eye for nuances of character and setting' The Times 'Hensher has a forensic eye for detail, providing nightmarish glimpses of the everyday...engrossing, amusing and moving' Independent '[Hensher] brilliantly animates the lives of neglected people during big historical events' The Times '[Hensher] illuminates an entire social world with skill, humour and tenderness' Daily Mail 'Rather like Mary Gaitskill, [Hensher] specializes in extending sympathy to his creations and then suddenly withdrawing it, giving them enough rope to hang themselves with' TLS