Philippa Holloway

Philippa Holloway is a writer and academic with a varied career history that includes being a goatherd, a medical technician at a racing circuit, and a library assistant. Her short fiction has been published internationally, and her debut novel, The Half-life of Snails (Parthian Books) was longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje prize for ' a distinguished work evoking the spirit of place, ' and has been featured in an international podcast, serialised in a national newspaper, and praised on BBC Radio 4's Front Row as ' powerful, evocative...a terrific book.'