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
