Philip Hoare’s books include Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant and Noël Coward: A Biography; Wilde’s Last Stand, Spike Island, and England’s Lost Eden. Leviathan or, The Whale won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize and is published in the UK, US, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Russia and China. It was followed by The Sea Inside (2013) and RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR (2017).
His latest book, Albert & the Whale, is published by 4th Estate in the UK, Pegasus Books in US, Ático do los Libros in Spain and Il Saggiatore in Italy.
Philip wrote and presented the BBC Arena film The Hunt for Moby-Dick, and directed three short films for BBC’s Whale Night. He is co-curator of the Moby-Dick and Ancient Mariner ‘Big Reads’, and is professor of creative writing at the University of Southampton.
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Take a listen to this amazing interview with @philipwhale on @byuradio's Constant Wonder! They discuss the life and… t.co/rnDjdWWJPt
Albrecht Dürer's life was full of encounters with medieval alchemists, eccentric emperors, a fantastical rhinoceros… t.co/Xx6YwgaP3A
'Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea... Thalatta!… t.co/3lYLfYkreG
4 am: at first light the air seems like the sea, blue and translucent; I swim in the atmosphere
a rare and glorious sight: killer whales off Dover: John Coe & Pal, English Channel, 13/06/2021 © Nick Short… t.co/DQ5nzvaADT
