Philip Womack

Philip Womack was born in Chichester in the middle of a thunderstorm in 1981. He is the author of several critically acclaimed novels for children: The Other Book, The Liberators; the Darkening Path trilogy, comprising The Broken King, The King's Shadow and The King's Revenge; The Double Axe, a reimagining of the Minotaur myth. The Arrow of Apollo, also set in the ancient world, was published in May 2020.

Wildlord, his first teen fiction, was published in October 2021, followed by Ghostlord in May 2023, which was Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week.

How to Teach Classics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the Greeks and Romans (for adults) was published in October 2020.

Philip was educated at Lancing, and Oriel College, Oxford, where he read Classics and English. He lives in London with his wife, the architect Tatiana von Preussen, his son, two daughters, and his lurcher.