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Philip Hoare

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Southampton, The United Kingdom

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http://www.philiphoare.co.uk/

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Fantasy, Sea Creatures

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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.

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Average rating: 3.99 · 7,512 ratings · 789 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea 3.94 avg rating — 3,007 ratings — published 2008 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sea Inside 3.79 avg rating — 538 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Albert and the Whale 3.63 avg rating — 365 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Risingtidefallingstar 3.96 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant 4.19 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oscar Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century 3.42 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1997 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pet Shop Boys Catalogue by Philip Hoare (Editor), Chris Heath (Editor) 4.69 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Noel Coward: A Biography 4.09 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spike Island 3.98 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	England's Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia 3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The sea defines us, connects us, separates us. Most of us experience only its edges, our available wilderness on a crowded island - it’s why we call our coastal towns ‘resorts’, despite their air of decay. And although it seems constant, it is never the same. One day the shore will be swept clean, the next covered by weed; the shingle itself rises and falls. Perpetually renewing and destroying, the sea proposes a beginning and an ending, an alternative to our landlocked state, an existence to which we are tethered when we might rather be set free.”
― Philip Hoare, The Sea Inside

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“Our bodies are as unknown to us as the ocean, both familiar and strange; the sea inside ourselves.”
― Philip Hoare, The Sea Inside

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“dolphins are not the benevolent mammals we’d like them to be; those beaming faces hide the minds of assassins.”
― Philip Hoare, The Sea Inside

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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle

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Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead by Paula Byrne

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The Common Reader: Volume 1 by Virginia Woolf

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Oscar Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century by Phillip Hoare

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The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911 by Juliet Nicolson

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The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya by Frances Osborne

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Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant by Philip Hoare

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George: An Early Autobiography by Emlyn Williams

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