Philip Hensher

Philip Hensher was born in 1965, in London, where he now lives. He is the author of three novels, Other Lulus (1994, Penguin 1995), Kitchen Venom (1996, Penguin 1997), which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and Pleasured (1998), as well as a collection of short stories, The Bedroom of the Mister's Wife (1999) and the libretto to Thomas Ades's opera, Powder Her Face. He is a regular critic and columnist for the Spectator, the Independent and the Mail on Sunday.