Outrunning the Demons: Lives Transformed through Running (Paperback)

Phil lives in Bishops Waltham, Hampshire, with his wife Fiona. Their children are Adam and Laura. Adam qualified as a doctor in June 2019 at the University of Newcastle; Laura is a medical student, also at Newcastle. A keen runner, Phil has completed 39 marathons including London six times, Paris three times, plus New York, Berlin, Dublin, Rome, Mallorca, Amsterdam, Marrakech and Tokyo among others. His current favourite marathon is the Portsmouth Coastal Waterside (six times). Outrunning The Demons was inspired by a knife attack in Cape Town which saw Phil left in a bloodied heap on the pavement. Phil says running has since proved a crucial way to get back to health. Phil is also the author of Keep on Running, Chichester Then and Now, Chichester Remembered, Gosport Then and Now, A Chichester Miscellany, A Portsmouth Miscellany and A Winchester Miscellany. Phil was brought up in Gosport, Hampshire, where he attended Bay House School. He later gained a first-class honours degree in modern languages and a doctorate in early twentieth-century French theatre from Oxford University. He joined the Chichester Observer in 1990 and became the newspaper’s arts editor four years later. He is now also arts editor for all the Observer’s sister papers across West Sussex, including the West Sussex Gazette and the West Sussex County Times. Phil is obsessed with The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. Also totally hooked on The Kinks, The Who and Free.