Philip Tew

Philip Tew (born Enfield, Middlesex, England) is a professor of literature at Brunel University London. He is the author of works on B. S. Johnson, Jim Crace, Zadie Smith, and the contemporary British novel. He is the founding director of the annual Hillingdon Literary Festival <https://www.hillingdonliteraryfestival.com/>, and is co-director of the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing. His first novel Afterlives was published in February 2019; see: <https://www.brigand.london/books/afterlives> According to World Cat his monograph, The Contemporary British Novel, is held by 841 libraries worldwide; see: <https://www.worldcat.org/>. A second book of fiction, Fragmentary Lives: Three Novellas, appeared in October 2019: <https://www.brigand.london/books/fragmentary-lives-three-novellas-philip-tew>.

Books:

• Coming of Age. Bazalgette, L., Holden, J., Tew, P., Hubble, N. and Morrison, J., London: Demos, 2011.
• Writers Talk: Interviews with Contemporary British Novelists. (With Fiona Tolan and Leigh Wilson). London: Continuum, 2008. pp. 257(ISBN 1847140246 / 978-1847140241).
• The Contemporary British Novel, London: Continuum, 2007. Second Revised Edition. pp. 257 (ISBN 978-0-8264-7349-3) (ISBN 978-0826493200 ).