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Author Description Alex Pheby is a British author and academic.<br /><br />His latest book is Mordew, the first in a fantasy trilogy.<br /><br />His second novel, Playthings, was described as “the best neuro-novel ever written" in Literary Review. The novel deals with the true case of Daniel Paul Schreber, a 19th-century German judge afflicted by schizophrenia who was committed to an asylum. In 2016, Playthings was shortlisted for the £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize.<br /><br />In 2019, his third novel, Lucia, which deals with the life of James Joyce's daughter, was joint winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize.<br /><br />Pheby is also the author of Grace, published by Two Ravens Press.<br /><br />He currently (2020) teaches at the University of Greenwich and has studied at Manchester University, Manchester Metropolitan University, Goldsmiths. and UEA.

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