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Philip Hensher

@philiphensher.bsky.social

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Author of 12 novels, most recently To Battersea Park. Comes with schnauzer.

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Philip Hensher @philiphensher.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thanks to everyone who has engaged with the book, almost everyone with interest and understanding.

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Philip Hensher @philiphensher.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Review in The New Statesman of AHOTNIB. "No academic critic wouid dare."

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Philip Hensher @philiphensher.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Excellent review in Prospect by Fiammetta Rocco - it's good to have another careful and intelligent review. It's had universally ecstatic reviews so far.

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Philip Hensher @philiphensher.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My book's only been out four days, and it's got a 4.9 rating on goodreads - intelligently reviewed, too. The Guardian called it a "masterpiece"; the Times said it was "exemplary"; the Spectator said it was "the most enjoyable work of literary criticism I've read for many years."

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Philip Hensher @philiphensher.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Wrote about Vegemite’s 100th birthday for the Spectator! www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...

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Philip Hensher @philiphensher.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Today I had risotto with pumpkin for dinner and it was tip top. The dog had some too.

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Philip Hensher @philiphensher.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Today’s protest in London seemed to me to revive the ancient blood libel against Jews. Here are dead babies, killed by Jews. I don’t know that this will ever end. And how could those protestors do that, knowing what Hamas did to Israeli babies two weeks ago? How could they?

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Philip Hensher @philiphensher.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Is there a more perfect play than Uncle Vanya? Andrew Scott’s one-man version as funny and ruinously devastating emotionally as it’s ever been.

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Philip Hensher @philiphensher.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

I love seeing this. As a boy I was an insane frequenter of second hand bookshops. I cannot imagine a writer who didn’t feel warm towards a buyer of old books, even their own.

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Philip Hensher @philiphensher.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

First MA workshop of the term at Bath Spa. The nice thing - you never know what idea is going to walk through the door, each October.

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