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Philip Hensher's novels include Kitchen Venom, which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and The Mulberry Empire, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. His latest novel, The Northern Clemency, was short-listed for the Man Booker. Chosen by Granta as one of their best young British novelists, he is professor of creative writing at Exeter University and a columnist for The Independent. He lives in London.
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The Mulberry Empire
A Novel
Written by Philip Hensher
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $15.00
In the spring of 1839, some fifty thousand British forces entered Afghanistan with “the full pomp of Empire,” possessed of the certainty that they would replace the Amir with someone less hostile toward their ally, the King of the Punjab. Three years later, a single British horseman rode out of the... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Philip Hensher
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $15.00
In the spring of 1839, some fifty thousand British forces entered Afghanistan with “the full pomp of Empire,” possessed of the certainty that they would replace the Amir with someone less hostile toward their ally, the King of the Punjab. Three years later, a single British horseman rode out of the... Read more >
The Mulberry Empire
A Novel
Written by Philip Hensher
Format: eBook, 496 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
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A Novel
Written by Philip Hensher
Format: eBook, 496 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
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The Northern Clemency
Written by Philip Hensher
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $16.95
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Written by Philip Hensher
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $16.95
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The Northern Clemency
Written by Philip Hensher
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 22, 2008
Price: $26.95
From the author of The Mulberry Empire: a new novel of great dramatic and emotional depth—a sweeping, powerfully engaging story of ordinary lives that are profoundly shaped by the larger forces of history.
In 1974, the Sellers are transplanted from London to Sheffield in northern England. On the day they move in... Read more >
Written by Philip Hensher
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 22, 2008
Price: $26.95
From the author of The Mulberry Empire: a new novel of great dramatic and emotional depth—a sweeping, powerfully engaging story of ordinary lives that are profoundly shaped by the larger forces of history.
In 1974, the Sellers are transplanted from London to Sheffield in northern England. On the day they move in... Read more >
The Northern Clemency
Written by Philip Hensher
Format: eBook, 512 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 22, 2008
Price: $26.95
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Written by Philip Hensher
Format: eBook, 512 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 22, 2008
Price: $26.95
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