Phil Carradice

Phil Carradice (born 1947), is a Welsh writer and broadcaster.

Carradice was born in Pembroke Dock. He was educated at Cardiff College of Education and Cardiff University, and became a teacher and social worker. After several years as head of Headlands Special School in Penarth, near Cardiff, he retired from the teaching profession to become a full-time writer. He hosts a history series on BBC Radio Wales entitled The Past Master.

Carradice is a prolific public speaker and travels extensively in the course of his work.

Works

Fiction

• Hour of the Wolf (1985)

Children's

• The Bosun's Secret (2000)
• The Pirates of Thorn Island (2001)
• Hannah Goes to War (2005)
• Black Bart's Treasure (2007)
• The Wild West Story (2013)

Non-fiction

• Failures of System (1976)
• The Last Invasion (1992)
• The Write Way (1996)
• Welsh Islands (1997)
• Shooting the Sacred Cows (1998)
• Exploring the Pembrokeshire Coast (2002)
• Wales at War (2005)
• Coming Home: Wales After the War (2005)
• A Town Built to Build Ships - A History of Pembroke Dock (2006)
• Life Choices (2006)
• People’s Poetry of the Great War (Cecil Woolf, 2007)
• The Black Chair (2008)
• People’s Poetry of World War Two (Cecil Woolf, 2009)
• The First World War in the Air (Amberley, 2012)
• 1914:the First World War at Sea in Photographs (Amberley, 2014)
• The Battles of Coronel and the Falklands: British Naval Campaigns in the Southern Hemisphere 1914-19 (Fonthill, 2014)
• The Cuban Missile Crisis: 13 Days on an Atomic Knife Edge, October 1962 (Pen & Sword Books, 2018)

Poetry

• Cautionary Tale (1998)
• Ghostly Riders (2002)

Sources

• Brief biography