Philip Hensher Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Philip Hensher

@TomCrewe1 The novelist round then who I just can’t understand his neglect is George Moore - Esther Waters is worth ten Tess of the d’U. I remember loving Beauchamp’s Career as well as The Egoist, too.

Philip Hensher

@LissaKEvans Have you ever read Stravinsky’s conversations with Robert Craft? Lord they’re enjoyable.

Philip Hensher

6 the quintet for piano and wind k452. I don’t know why, this always makes me think of the music Mozart would have written if he’d lived to be 70. Very Jane-Austen-Persuasion.

Philip Hensher

6 the quintet for piano and wind k452. I don’t know why, this always makes me think of the music Mozart would have written if he’d lived to be 70. Very Jane-Austen-Persuasion.

Philip Hensher

@nguyenhdi @hairygit Also within two minutes the house where Graham Greene lived and set The End of the Affair.

Philip Hensher

6 the quintet for piano and wind k452. I don’t know why, this always makes me think of the music Mozart would have written if he’d lived to be 70. Very Jane-Austen-Persuasion.

Philip Hensher

@TomCrewe1 The novelist round then who I just can’t understand his neglect is George Moore - Esther Waters is worth ten Tess of the d’U. I remember loving Beauchamp’s Career as well as The Egoist, too.

Philip Hensher

@LissaKEvans Forgive me if I’ve recommended this before - but do you know Lord Dunsany’s divine Rory and Bran? About the adventures of two friends - he only remembers to tell us on the last page that Bran’s a dog.

Philip Hensher

@BookSuperhero2 In L Frank Baum’s The Marvelous Land of Oz, the apparent hero Tip undergoes a gender reassignment process to reveal that he was always Princess Ozma, unrecognised by everyone.

Philip Hensher

@ShearmanRobert @djunasaurus @lizzieinclover @ShowerAbsolute @DrFrancisYoung When I was 14 I very happily read all sorts of stuff that I couldn’t go near now - I remember there was a cult of James Herbert’s The Fog when we were 11 or 12. God knows why nobody took it off us.