Philip Womack
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Philip Womack, acclaimed author of The Other Book and The Liberators, has already been likened to Alan Garner (The Times) and described as “the next JK Rowling” by The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail. The Daily Telegraph consider him "a writer of huge talent" and Tatler magazine “Byronically handsome”! Currently literary critic for the Telegraph, Contributing Editor to the Literary Review and a judge of the Costa Children’s Book Award, Womack’s admirers include Amanda Craig, formerly of The Times, and authors Philip Reeve, Marcus Sedgwick and Keren David, among others. He is the Patron of Reading for Haringey. |
Photo credit: Tatiana von Preussen
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Womack was educated at Lancing College and Oxford University, where he read Classics and English at Oriel College. He is also a Fellow at First Story, currently being Writer in Residence at St Augustine's in Kilburn. He lives in London. The King’s Shadow is his fourth novel for children, the second in the Darkening Path trilogy, the first of which won him comparison to Alan Garner and JK Rowling.
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Read more about The Darkening Path trilogy - Book One:The Broken King, Book Two: The King's Shadow and Book Three: The King's Revenge.
Read Philip's article for The Guardian on 'How to write a fantasy world' and find out which children's books Philip loves here.
To view teaching resources with ideas for discussion and activities relating to The Darkening Path trilogy, as well as suggestions for further reading, click here.
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Read more about The Darkening Path trilogy - Book One:The Broken King, Book Two: The King's Shadow and Book Three: The King's Revenge.
Read Philip's article for The Guardian on 'How to write a fantasy world' and find out which children's books Philip loves here.
To view teaching resources with ideas for discussion and activities relating to The Darkening Path trilogy, as well as suggestions for further reading, click here.