Philip Sington is an English

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others asp ...

and playwright. He was born in

Cambridge, UK Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...

. He read history at

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or Oxford. ...

. Together with the mystery writer Gary Humphreys, he has co-authored six thrillers under the joint pseudonym of Patrick Lynch. Their third book, ''Carriers'' (1995), was adapted as a TV movie of the same name in 1998. They also collaborated on the stage play ''Lip Service'', which was premiered at the

Finborough Theatre The Finborough Theatre is a fifty-seat theatre in the West Brompton area of London (part of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea) under artistic director Neil McPherson. The theatre presents new British writing, as well as UK and world pr ...

in London in 2000. His first solo novel, ''Zoia's Gold'', was published in November 2006 by

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. It was based in part on the life of the Russian-Swedish artist Zoia Korvin-Krukovsky."Zoia's Gold"
/ref> '' The Einstein Girl'', his second solo novel, was published in August 2009 by Harvill Secker, part of

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. His third solo novel, ''The Valley of Unknowing'', was published in 2012, also by Harvill Secker. He lives in

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

References

External links

Philip Sington's official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sington, Philip 1962 births Living people 21st-century English novelists English dramatists and playwrights Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Place of birth missing (living people) English male dramatists and playwrights English male novelists 21st-century English male writers Writers from London