Philip Womack

Womack was educated at [https://www.westsussextoday.co.uk/news/bury-pupils-treated-to-visit-from-writer-1-7024034 Dorset House Preparatory School], Lancing College, BPP Law School, and read Classics and English at Oriel College, Oxford.

Womack has written for The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator,{{cite web |url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/27576/chuckles-in-the-middle-of-nowhere.thtml |title=The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters | G. W. Dalquist | Review by The Spectator |publisher=Spectator.co.uk |date=27 January 2007 |access-date=29 February 2012 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329053207/http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/27576/chuckles-in-the-middle-of-nowhere.thtml |archive-date=29 March 2012 |df=dmy-all }} The Tablet, The New Humanist{{cite magazine|url=http://newhumanist.org.uk/2068 |title=Philip Womack – Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel |magazine=New Humanist |access-date=29 February 2012}} and The First Post.

His first novel, The Other Book, was published in January 2008,{{cite web |url=http://www.bloomsbury.com/childrens/authors/details.aspx?tpid=8837 |title=Bloomsbury Publishing Authors By Surname: A |publisher=Bloomsbury.com |access-date=29 February 2012 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121192715/http://www.bloomsbury.com/childrens/authors/details.aspx?tpid=8837 |archive-date=21 November 2010 |df=dmy-all }} by Bloomsbury Publishing. His second novel, The Liberators, was published by Bloomsbury in February 2010. He authored a trilogy of fantasy novels under the series title The Darkening Path. The books in the trilogy are The Broken King,{{cite web | title = Philip Womack's 'The Broken King' shortlisted for Haringey's Children Book Award| publisher = Royal Holloway, University of London| date = 2 February 2015| url = https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/english/newsandevents/newsarticles/philip-womacks-the-broken-king-shortlisted-for-haringeys-children-book-award.aspx| access-date = 15 July 2016 }} The King's Shadow,{{cite web | last = Feay| first = Suzi| title = 'The King's Shadow', by Philip Womack| publisher = The Financial Times Limited| date = 29 May 2015| url = https://next.ft.com/content/1a378ca8-f59d-11e4-bc6d-00144feab7de| access-date = 15 July 2016 }} and The King's Revenge, which were published in 2014, 2015, and 2016 respectively. The Double Axe, a retelling of the Minotaur myth, was published in 2016.{{cite web | last = Williams| first = Imogen Russell| title = Bull's in Your Court| publisher = Literary Review| date = March 2016| url = https://literaryreview.co.uk/bulls-in-your-court| access-date = 15 July 2016 }} The Arrow of Apollo, a book on the stories of the children of Orestes and Aenea, was published in May 2020.{{Cite web|title=Julia Gray - After the Fall|url=https://literaryreview.co.uk/after-the-fall-3|access-date=2020-09-08|website=Literary Review|language=en}} The author's first non-fiction book, How to Teach Classics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the Ancient Greeks and Romans, was published in October 2020.{{Cite web|title=How to Teach Classics to Your Dog : Philip Womack : 9781786078148|url=https://www.bookdepository.com/How-Teach-Classics-Your-Dog-Philip-Womack/9781786078148|access-date=2020-09-08|website=www.bookdepository.com}}{{Cite web|title=How to Teach Classics to Your Dog|url=https://oneworld-publications.com/how-to-teach-classics-to-your-dog-hb.html|access-date=2020-09-08|website=UK|language=en}}

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