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Philip Hoare
Philip Hoare is the author of several books, including ‘Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant’; ‘Noel Coward: A Biography’; ‘Oscar Wilde’s Last Stand’; ‘Spike Island’ and ‘England’s Lost Eden’. He lives in Hoxton, London, and Southampton, and each summer visits Cape Cod, where, as a member of the Center for Coastal Studies, he undertakes twice-daily expeditions to watch its whales.
Philip’s most recent book Leviathan (2008) won the BBC Samuel Johnson for Non-Fiction in 2009.
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SPIKE ISLAND: The Memory of a Military Hospital
The story of Netley in Southampton – its hospital, its people and the secret history of the 20th-century. Now with a new afterword uncovering astonishing evidence of Netley's links with Porton Down & experiments with LSD in the 1950s.
Publication date: UK 26th Mar 2010
ENGLAND’S LOST EDEN: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia
A kaleidoscopic story of myth, Spiritualism, and the Victorian search for Utopia from one of the brightest and most original non-fiction writers at work today.
Publication date: UK 26th Mar 2010
LEVIATHAN [ePub edition]
![Cover of: LEVIATHAN [ePub edition]](http://images.harpercollins.co.uk/hcwebimages/HCCOVERS/051700/051720-FC63.jpg)
The story of a man’s obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey – from his childhood to his fascination with Moby-Dick and his excursions whale-watching.
Publication date: UK 6th Aug 2009
LEVIATHAN
The story of a man’s obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey – from his childhood to his fascination with Moby-Dick and his excursions whale-watching.
Publication date: UK 11th Jun 2009