Gillian Philip


Author type:
Writer
BRAW network:
yes
LL funded:
yes
Publisher:
Bloomsbury
Biography:
Gillian Philip lives in the north-east highlands of Scotland with her husband, twins and too many animals. She a full-time writer of Young Adult fiction in several genres including crime, fantasy and horror.
About writer's work:
Gillian’s books include BAD FAITH (a dystopian mystery novel), CROSSING THE LINE (a gritty story of teenage gangs), and THE OPPOSITE OF AMBER (a murder story set in a Scottish seaside town). She is the author of the REBEL ANGELS series, a fantasy set in the Scottish Highlands, of which Books 1 and 2 are so far published (FIREBRAND and BLOODSTONE). Her books have also been published in Germany, Turkey and the United States. She ghostwrites fiction for the successful book packagers Hothouse and Working Partners, and has written short educational novels for Evans Brothers including Life of the Party, Mind’s Eye, Sea Fever and Cyber Fever.
Language:
English
Age groups:
5-8, 9-12, Teens, Adults
Local authorities available to visit:
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Dundee, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Glasgow, Highland, Inverclyde, Midlothian, Moray, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles), North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Orkney, Perth and Kinross, Renfrewshire, Scottish Borders, Shetland, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, West Dunbartonshire, West Lothian, Other

Books written

Written by: Gillian Philip
Georgia is on a mission - a mission to get her mother's painting back. It certainly doesn't belong to Oliviera, her mother's ex-boyfriend. But Georgia's plans are thwarted when she is spotted by ...
Written by: Gillian Philip
Georgia is on a mission - a mission to get her mother's painting back. It certainly doesn't belong to Oliviera, her mother's ex-boyfriend! But Georgia's plans are thwarted when she is spotted by ...
Written by: Gillian Philip
In a society run by the autocratic One Church, a cleric’s daughter finds that her status is no protection when murder, secrets and lies threaten her family and her infidel boyfriend.
Themes: ...
Written by: Gillian Philip
Gabriella Poole is a pseudonym used by Gillian Philip. This term the secretive Darke Academy has moved to New York, and Cassie Bell is no longer the innocent new girl. Now she is strong, ...
Written by: Gillian Philip
For centuries, Sithe warriors Seth and Conal MacGregor have hunted for the Bloodstone demanded by their Queen. Homesick, and determined to protect their clann, they have also made secret forays ...
Written by: Gillian Philip
In the aftermath of a fatal school stabbing, Nick Geddes discovers that gang life is not for him when he falls in love with the sister of his gang’s victim. Meanwhile he has to protect his own ...
Written by: Gillian Philip
It is the last decade of the sixteenth century: a time of religious wars in the full-mortal world. But the Sidhe are at peace, hidden behind the Veil that protects their world until their queen, Kate ...
Written by: Gillian Philip
"Shades" is a series of short novels that doesn't short change on drama, pace, quality of writing or style. Ideal for readers who may find traditional teen novels too daunting, but still ...
Written by: Gillian Philip

The Darke Academy is a school like no other. An élite establishment that moves to an exotic new city every term, its students are impossibly beautiful, sophisticated and rich. And the more new ...

Written by: Gillian Philip
'They found the fifth girl right after the snow melted ...the place where he left her was winter water, crazed with ice-feathers and dusted with snow. The traces from her body were gone, the ones ...
Written by: Gillian Philip
Lily is perfect and has all the guys after her. Her best friend Carla tends to live in Lily's shadow and gets all her cast-off boyfriends. That is until she meets Rory, who points out that Lily isn't ...
Written by: Gillian Philip
Lily is perfect and has all the guys after her. Her best friend Carla tends to live in Lily's shadow and gets all her cast-off boyfriends. That is until she meets Rory, who points out that Lily isn't ...