Philip Marsden

Philip Marsden

Philip Marsden also known as Philip Marsden-Smedley (born 5 November 1961, Bristol, England) is an English travel writer and novelist.

His books include "The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians", "The Spirit-Wrestlers: A Russian Journey" and "Chains of Heaven: An Ethiopian Romance". He has also published a novel, "The Main Cages", which is set in the English county of Cornwall during the mid-1930s.

Marsden has a degree in anthropology and worked for some years for The Spectator magazine. He became a full-time writer in the late 1980s. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Cornwall.


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