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Alex Pheby

Alex Pheby

British author and academic

Alex Pheby (born 1970)[1] is a British author and academic. He is currently a professor at Newcastle University and lives in Scotland.[2] He studied at Manchester University, Manchester Metropolitan University, Goldsmiths. and UEA.[3]

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Career

Pheby's second novel, Playthings, was described as "the best neuro-novel ever written" in Literary Review.[4] The novel deals with the true case of Daniel Paul Schreber, a 19th-century German judge affected by schizophrenia, who was committed to an asylum. In 2016, Playthings was shortlisted for the £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize.[5] His third novel, Lucia,, concerning the suspected schizophrenic daughter of James Joyce, released in 2018 was joint winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize.[6] He is also the author of Grace, published by Two Ravens Press.

Mordew, published in 2020 by Galley Beggar Press, is the first of a trilogy of fantasy novels. Critics have praised the world building, the balance between "invention and familiarity", and described the novel as "dizzying".[7][8][9]

Bibliography

  • 2014: Afterimages of Schreber
  • 2015: Playthings
  • 2018: Lucia
  • 2020: Mordew (Cities of the Weft #1)
  • 2022: Malarkoi (Cities of the Weft #2)
  • TBC: Waterblack (Cities of the Weft #3)

References

  1. [1]
    "Pheby, Alex". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Alex Pheby – Professor of Creative Writing (Prose)". ncl.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  3. [3]
    https://www.gre.ac.uk/people/rep/fach/alex-pheby
  4. [4]
    "A Waking Dreamer". Literary Review.
  5. [5]
    "Playthings by Alex Pheby review – the madness of Daniel Paul Schreber". The Guardian. 20 November 2015.
  6. [6]
    "Novels about Lucia Joyce and Alan Turing win Republic of Consciousness Prize". The Irish Times.
  7. [7]
    Roberts, Adam (20 August 2020). "Mordew by Alex Pheby review – an extravagant, unnerving fantasy". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  8. [8]
    "Magic and miasma: Mordew, by Alex Pheby, reviewed | the Spectator". www.spectator.co.uk. 13 August 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  9. [9]
    "Mordew: a city of compelling characters and dark adventures". The Irish Times. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
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