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Kitchen Venom

Kitchen Venom

Author(s): Philip Hensher

Location(s): London

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Late 1980s

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Winner of a Somerset Maugham Award 1997

A stunning novel of political life, betrayal and passion, which lifts the lid on vice within the Palace of Westminster…and cost Hensher his job as a House of Commons clerk.

John is a distinguished widower with a hump, two daughters, and an important job in the House of Commons. He also has a fondness for visiting rent boys in the afternoons, and a passion for secrecy…

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‘Sex, politics and death are the classic themes of Hensher’s original novel. Set in Parliament at the time of the fall of Margaret Thatcher, it follows the disintegration of the family of a Commons...

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