Philip Parrish is a novelist living in Worcestershire with his wife Hollie and daughter Sofia. Born in Tamworth, Staffordshire, he graduated with a BA in English from the University of Nottingham. Since then he has pursued a successful career as a content specialist in the creative, marketing and communications industries.
Philip’s writing has been recognised with numerous UK industry awards including IoIC Central Editor of the Year awards in 2012 and 2014, an IoIC National Award of Excellence for Best Editor in 2012, an IoIC National Class Winner award for Best News Writing in 2011 and an IPR Cream Young Communicator of the Year award in 2002. He has also led several projects that have won awards internationally, including three times at the IABC Gold Quills and twice at the European FEIEA Grand Prix.
His first novel, Game of Life, was published in 2021 and is a psychological mystery novel that explores the nature of possession and grief. Aimed at the literary fiction market, the novel is influenced by Gustave Flaubert, Graham Swift, Anton Chekhov and James Joyce. Philip followed this in 2023 with The Bleeding Horizon, a sci-fi fantasy political thriller inspired by Franz Kafka, JG Ballard and Raymond Chandler.
His latest book, Exiles Incorporated, is a collection of twelve historical short stories that explores the highest and lowest places of the human psyche, spanning ancient Greece to medieval Cairo, first-century Peru to the Belgian Congo, shogunate Japan to 1960s Los Angeles, and dawn-of-creation Australia to modern-day Britain.
The stories depict the human condition from childhood to old age, sweeping through six continents and fifteen countries, blending the mystical and the macabre, the fantastical with full-blooded horror. Its influences range from Geoffrey Chaucer and Anton Chekhov to Joseph Conrad, James Joyce and Gabriel García Márquez.
Exiles Incorporated is available to buy on Apple Books, Amazon and Google Play as an e-book, plus on Amazon and Barnes & Noble as a paperback.
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