PHILIP GROSS is a writer for people – of all ages – who like the challenge of big ideas, real emotions, powerful language and imagination in full flight.
The son of a wartime refugee from Estonia and a Cornish schoolmaster’s daughter, his novels and poetry are always smuggling messages across borders - between childhood and adult life, between fantasy and reality, between genres: science fiction, haiku, schools opera libretti, stage and radio plays. His poetry collection The Wasting Game (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize) dealt with teenage anorexia and has frequently been used in schools.
At various times he has been a junior chess champion, a rock climber, a Buddhist, a lead guitarist in a rock band, a student revolutionary, a Quaker and a university professor. He has two grown-up children, and lives in Bristol with his wife Zélie, and has visited schools for more than twenty years, leading writing workshops and reading his work.
PUBLISHED BOOKS
Novels for young people:
- The Storm Garden - OUP (2006)
- The Lastling - OUP (2003)
- Marginaliens - OUP (2003)
- Going For Stone - OUP (2002)
- Facetake - Scholastic (1999)
- Psylicon Beach - Scholastic (1998)
- Transformer - Scholastic (1996)
- The Wind Gate - Scholastic (1995)
- Plex - Scholastic (1994)
- The Song of Gail and Fludd - Faber (1991)
Poetry for young people:
- Scratch City - Faber (1995)
- The All-Nite Cafe London - Faber (1993)
- Manifold Manor - Faber (1989)
Poetry for adults:
FOREIGN EDITIONS
American editions have appeared or are forthcoming of Going For Stone (as Turn To Stone, from Dial) and The Lastling (Clarion)
Plex has appeared in Italian (Mondadori, 2000), The Wind Gate in Danish (Atelier, 1997), Transformer in Spanish (Gaviota, 1999).
Short stories from the Scholastic collections Thirteen Again and Thirteen Murder Mysteries have appeared in Spanish, French Canadian and Czech.
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