Philip Leslie

Born Norfolk, UK. Philip began composing music and writing poems and stories in his early teens and went on to spend four years at art college, where the writer in residence was Gillian Clarke. He has worked variously as a freelance artist, an art technician in a sixth-form college and behind-the-scenes in a bank. 'The History of Us' is Philip's umpteenth book, but the first to be published. One of his short stories was runner-up in the Bridport writing competition. "The History of Us' was shortlisted in the fiction section of the 2009 East Anglian Book of the Year award. As Philip Hansell he is a published composer of a variety of music for amateur performers.