Philip Hensher
Professor of Creative Writing and Contributor at The Spectator
Author of novels, including To Battersea Park. Prof of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Comes with Schnauzer. Views personal.
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2 weeks ago |
spectator.com.au | Philip Hensher
They weren’t familiar park visitors, but a couple with a specific purpose, laden down with camera equipment. They unpacked carefully, without the swift expertise of a professional photographer and his model, working on the clock. Years ago, we went to Japan on our honeymoon, and the girl’s outfit was something I’d seen before in Tokyo – a pink and white frilly knee-length crinoline, flailing with ribbons.
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2 weeks ago |
spectator.co.uk | Philip Hensher
Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments They weren’t familiar park visitors, but a couple with a specific purpose, laden down with camera equipment. They unpacked carefully, without the swift expertise of a professional photographer and his model, working on the clock. Years ago, we went to Japan on our honeymoon, and the girl’s outfit was something I’d seen before in Tokyo – a pink and white frilly knee-length crinoline, flailing with ribbons. In Harajuku,...
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3 weeks ago |
thespectator.com | Dylan Neri |Arabella Byrne |Lisa Hilton |Philip Hensher
There’s a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One in which a magazine’s advice columnist “the Guru Brahmin” (in fact “two gloomy men and a bright young secretary”) receives yet another letter from a compulsive nail-biter: “What did we advise her last time?” Mr. Slump, the chain-smoking drunk, asks.
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3 weeks ago |
thespectator.com | Christian House |Philip Hensher |Alice Jolly |Matthew Dennison
Reading Robert Ferguson’s fascinating history of the experiences of the Norwegians during the five years of German occupation between 1940 and 1945 – a collage of resistance, collaboration and the gray areas in between – I was reminded of the remarks of two Norwegian nonagenarians. In 2011, I interviewed Gunnar Sonsteby, a hero of Norway’s resistance movement, for The Spectator.
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4 weeks ago |
spectator.co.uk | Philip Hensher
Michelle de Kretser, of a Sri Lankan family living in Australia, is an exceptional novelist – perhaps among the ten best at work in English today. She has been recognised with literary prizes, but it’s surprising that she hasn’t made quite the impact on the public she deserves. She is one of those writers who one presses upon intelligent acquaintances and whose books reward rereading.
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Today in my forthcoming history of the British novel I wrote a detailed comparison between the technique of Adam Bede (George Eliot) and one of Katie Price’s autobiographies.
