A History of the Novel in Britain by Philip Hensher review – a masterpiece of criticismPublished bytheguardian.comon •1 min readThis joyous book takes readers on a literary adventure across 300 years of fiction, from Defoe to Zadie SmithIn his opening paragraph, Philip Hensher declares that a novel not only “tells a good story” but is a good story in itself.literaturacríticanovelaLearn moreShareLegalReport
