
Philip Hoare
Author · 12 books
Philip Hoare is an English writer, especially of history and biography. He instigated the Moby Dick Big Read project. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Southampton and Leverhulme artist-in-residence at the Marine Institute, Plymouth University, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2011.
Series
Books

England's Lost Eden
2005

William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love
Art, Poetry, and the Imagining of a New World
2025

Noel Coward
A Biography
2013

Oscar Wilde's Last Stand
Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century
1997

The Sea Inside
2013

Risingtidefallingstar
In Search of the Soul of the Sea
2017

Pet Shop Boys Catalogue
2006

Oceano
2022

Albert and the Whale
2021

The Whale
In Search of the Giants of the Sea
2008

Serious Pleasures
The Life of Stephen Tennant
1990

Spike Island
The Memory of a Military Hospital
2001