List Of Writers

CARRADICE, PHIL

26a Pinewood Square, Eglwys Brewis, St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan CF62 4JR
Tel: 01446 751722
Email: phil.carradice@btopenworld.com

Poet, short–story writer, novelist, historian and editor. Born at Pembroke Dock, educated at Cardiff College of Education and University College, Cardiff. Phil has been a teacher, social worker and head teacher of Headlands Special School in Penarth. His work has been featured in a wide range of magazines including Poetry Wales, The Times Educational Supplement, Anglo-Welsh Review and the New Welsh Review. He is the editor of The South Wales Golfer, the leading golf magazine in Wales. A regular broadcaster on TV/Radio, he has completed numerous residencies (for schools, writers’ groups and Arts Associations).  Phil is presenter of The Past Master, the Radio Wales history programme - now in its sixth season and due to go into its seventh next January. He leads regular creative writing classes for Cardiff University and is a Board Member of Academi.

Selected Publications:
Failures of System (Excello & Bollard, 1976)
Fading Islands (Excello & Bollard, 1977)
Sit Here (Excello & Bollard, 1977)
Enigma (Kawabata Press, 1980)
Night Walking (Sol Publications, 1981) 
How Horatio Was Felled on the Bridge and Other Poems (Meadow, 1984) 
Hour of the Wolf and Other Short Stories (SCA, 1985) 
Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled (Meadow, 1985)
Night-time Nasties (Meadow, 1987)
Pembroke Dock in Old Picture Postcards: v. 1 (Europese Bibliotheek B.V., Uitgeverij Boekhandel A, 1987)
Tales of Old P. D.: Fictionalized History of Pembroke Dock (Pembroke Town Council, 1990)  
Forgotten Mornings (Hallmark, 1990)
Book of Pembroke Dock (Barracuda Books, 1991)
Headlands School In Camera (In Camera Series) (Quotes, 1991)
Beside the Seaside: South Wales in Camera (In Camera Series) (with George Best) (Quotes, 1992)
The Last Invasion: The story of the French landing in Wales (Village Publishing, 1992)
The End of Break (Meadows Press, 1992)
Pembroke Dock in Old Picture Postcards: v. 2 (Europese Bibliotheek B.V., Uitgeverij Boekhandel A, 1992)
Travelling Hopefully (Meadow, 1992) 
Pembroke for King and Parliament (Pembroke Town Council, 1993)
Welsh Shipwrecks In Camera (In Camera Series) (Quotes, 1993)
Borderlines (Lucky Duck, 1994)
In the Teeth of the Dragon (Quotes, 1994)
Penarth Pier 1894-1994 (Town Book Series) (Quotes, 1994)
The Write Way: Creativity and Personal Development (Lucky Duck, 1996)
Welsh Islands (Wish You Were Here) (Quotes, 1997)
Cautionary Tale (And Other Golf Poems) (Meadow Press, 1998)
Shooting the Sacred Cows (The Meadow Press, 1998)
The Bosun’s Secret (Pont Books, 2000)
The Pirates of Thorne Island (Pont, 2001)
Ghostly Riders (Pont, 2002)
Exploring the Pembrokeshire Coast (Gwasg Gomer, 2002)
Hannah Goes to War (Pont, 2005)
Life Choices: Teaching Adolescents to Make Positive Decisions About Their Own Lives (Lucky Duck, 2005)
Coming Home: Wales after the War (Gwasg Gomer, 2005)
Wales at War (Gwasg Gomer, 2005)
A Town Built to Build Ships (Accent, 2006)
Black Bart’s Treasure (Pont, 2007)
Highlights of Welsh History (Inside Out) (Gomer, 2007)
A Town in Conflict: Penarth the Story: Volume 2 (Penarth Press, 2007)
People’s Poetry of the Great War (Cecil Woolf Publishing, 2007)

Contributed to:
The Unsaid Goodnight: A Poetry Anthology for Barnardo’s (editor) (Stride, 1989)
Welsh Sailors of the Second World War (co-writer) (Glyndwr Publishing, 2007)



The Bosun’s Secret (Pont Books, 2000)

A short novel relating the story of nine months in the life of an eleven year old orphan boy caught begging on Newport streets in 1870, and sent to receive instructions in a naval school from a kind schoolteacher and a cruel boatswain. Nat Thomas, a young orphan boy, is sent to the Industrial School Ship ‘Havannah’ in Cardiff . The conditions on the ship are brutal, most of the brutality being carried out by Bosun Jayne, who singles Nat out and subjects him to a reign of terror. For 9-12 year-old readers.

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Wales at War (Gwasg Gomer, 2005)

People living in Wales during the Second World War have a fascinating tale to tell and in Wales at War. Phil Carradice interviews people from all walks of life about their experiences. School children, evacuees, Home Guard, Land Army Girls, factory workers, Bevin Boys, soldiers, conscientious objectors and prisoners of war are all featured. The book accompanies the BBC Radio Wales series of the same name.

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Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Read and discuss own work
2. Creative writing workshops
3. Writing travel articles

AGE RANGE: 7-11, 12-18 and adults: different approaches and different material for each age-group (readings or workshops).