Phill Featherstone

Phill Featherstone read English Literature at Cambridge University and followed this with an MA at Leicester University. He taught older teenagers in schools in England before moving into advisory work. After this he and his wife started an educational publishing business, which they ran until it was acquired by Bloomsbury Publishing. Phill alternates between writing, drinking coffee, and playing the saxophone (badly) - not always in that order. He lives in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England with Sally, his wife and partner of more years than they can count.

Phill is the award-winning author of 11 novels and a book of short stories.

'Paradise Girl', Book 1 of Phill's REBOOT trilogy, is set in the northern hills where, amidst the majestic bea

Phill Featherstone read English Literature at Cambridge University and followed this with an MA at Leicester University. He taught older teenagers in schools in England before moving into advisory work. After this he and his wife started an educational publishing business, which they ran until it was acquired by Bloomsbury Publishing. Phill alternates between writing, drinking coffee, and playing the saxophone (badly) - not always in that order. He lives in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England with Sally, his wife and partner of more years than they can count.

Phill is the award-winning author of 11 novels and a book of short stories.

'Paradise Girl', Book 1 of Phill's REBOOT trilogy, is set in the northern hills where, amidst the majestic beauty of the rolling moors, a world pandemic consigns a lone young woman to a bleak future. In Book 2, 'Aftershocks', her twin brother sets out to discover the truth behind the infection. REBOOT concludes with 'Jericho Rose'. By now the pandemic is over, and it's time to rebuild. However, there are a selfish few who seek to exploit the situation for their own ends and this risks losing the little that's left.

Phill's fourth novel, 'The God Jar', is a tale of magic and mystery which straddles 16th century Europe and 20th century England. John Dee, Elizabethan sorcerer and mystic, finds a jar which he discovers has supernatural powers. 400 years later it resurfaces when a pair of honeymooners come across it on a diving trip. But have they found the jar or has it found them?

In 'What Dreams We Had!' a group of young people are offered a fantastic holiday in Italy, but once there they are forced to confront uncomfortable issues about who they are and what's important to them, and to wonder whether anything they thought was true actually is.

'I Know What You're Thinking' is a story about two teenagers who share a remarkable ability: each can read the mind of the other. When one of them is kidnapped their friend must use this gift to find them, but nothing is easy in this taut thriller.

The Leopard's Bane series consists of 3 titles – The Poisoner's Garden, The Rhymer's Daughter, and A Hanging Moon. It's the tale of a family feud and a struggle between two brothers, one bent on selfish advancement and the other seeking to correct a corrupt society. Oh, and there's a poor girl from the slums who possesses the knack of turning everything upside down.

'Butterflies' tells of a girl from a sheltered background who finds herself in the world of the titled and wealthy. She is forced to confront her situation, which compels her to leaves this existence and find another.

'Tideswell', the title of Phill's eleventh novel, is the name of a decaying village on the east coast of England. The heroine goes there to clear out a cottage which has been used by her vanished sister. She unearths some disturbing questions about herself, her family, and the past which force her to rebuild her life.

Phill's novels have won Chill With a Book Reader Awards and Indie BRAG Gold Medallions. They have been finalists in the Page Turner and Wishing Shelf Awards.

Phill has also written a book of short stories, 'Undiscovered Countries' which is free to subscribers to his email newsletter. Details are on his website.

Phill is a member of The Society of Authors, The Alliance of Independent Authors, Promoting Yorkshire Authors, Sheffield Authors, and The British Library.