Philip Womack – Editor
Philip is the author of The Other Book and The Liberators. The Liberators was a Children’s Book of the Year for 2010.
Philip is the author of The Other Book and The Liberators. The Liberators was a Children’s Book of the Year for 2010.
Philip Womack was born in Sussex, and educated at Lancing and Oriel College, Oxford, where he read Classics and English. After graduating, he worked at Literary Review for four years, before becoming freelance in 2008 on publication of his first novel, The Other Book. Six novels for children followed, including The Liberators, The Double Axe and The Arrow of Apollo, and his first non-fiction work for adults, How to Teach Classics to Your Dog, will be published in October 2020.
He teaches Creative Writing to BA and MA students at London University, and has been a literary critic for nearly twenty years, as well as a freelance journalist for a variety of national newspapers and magazines, writing on topics such as education and literature, and even an article on pyjamas for Tatler magazine. He is currently on the Management Committee of the Society of Authors and a Contributing Editor to Literary Review.
Fiction:
Contemporary |
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Literary (including ‘bookclub’) |
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Crime / Thriller / Action |
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Science Fiction |
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Fantasy |
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Comic/Satire |
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Paranormal |
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Short stories & novellas |
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Picture books |
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Children’s |
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Young Adult |
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Plays and screen scripts |
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Non-Fiction:
Memoir/Autobiography |
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Other narrative non-fiction |
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