Adventures in Fiction

I was delighted to feature in an article on the Adventures in Fiction website. This is the organisation I won the Spotlight First Novel Prize with, back in 2018. Part of the prize was a full mentoring package, to help develop the writing and push it on towards publication. I was lucky enough to work with my mentor Ray Robinson, the author of Electricity and Forgetting Zoe.

Here’s an extract from the article.

“We are immensely pleased to highlight Philip Bowne’s debut, which is launching in September. Back in 2018, when he won the Spotlight First Novel Competition, his pages jumped out, with their youthful exuberance and irreverent wit, and are memorable even now. This is a fresh take on the classic rite-of-passage, an explosive coming-of-age odyssey in the mould of The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi and Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin.”

You can see the full article here.