About Philip Hensher: Philip Michael Hensher is an English novelist, critic and journalist.
It happened to some people, that obsession with throwing their clothes off at an age when it would be best to keep them on.
Why do we say ‘the cockles of your heart’?” David said. “Nothing to do with whelks, I suppose.
The thing I truly object to,” Kitty said, “and I know this sounds trivial and I don’t care if it sounds a bit snobbish, but I don’t care about these awful people and I do care about this. It’s that the whole world now thinks about Hanmouth ...
I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.
It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading novels is actually good for you. It embeds you in society and makes you think about other people...
