Phil lives in Horwich with his wife Mary, son Bob and cat Aphrodite and has lived in and around the Bolton area all his life.
He is a second year undergraduate on the B.A. English degree course at The University of Bolton, having enrolled there following retirement in 2019.
Rarely without a novel, his favourite author is George Orwell, but he enjoys nineteenth and twentieth century literature of all kinds. He has enjoyed authors, new to him, that he has encountered during the course of study he is currently embarked upon. For example: Toni Morrison, William Falkner, James Baldwin, Carson McCullers, Euripides, Cavafy and many more.
Phil also maintains a keen interest in film and drama and regularly attends cinema and theatre in the Manchester area, though he does make time to watch his boyhood heroes, Bolton Wanderers.
