Richard English

Richard English is a British Academy Award-winning researcher who graduated from King’s College London with a first in philosophy in 1992 and completed an MPhil at Birkbeck College, specialising in psychoanalytic theory and moral philosophy. At the time, he was particularly keen to find out if he really existed, and, if he did, how he could appease his over-zealous conscience. After leaving university these matters continued to plague him until he became the world lay expert on Hepatitis C, performing PR interviews on behalf of the British Liver Trust on BBC News at 6, Radio London, the Australian Broadcasting Company, Sydney Radio and so on. He famously appeared on a chat show hosted by Julie Goodyear, barmaid at the Rovers Return, Coronation Street, for Granada Television, in the company of a libertine antiques trader and a babbling soothsayer from Kentish Town. His publications include Living with Hepatitis C (1997) and Coping Successfully with Hepatitis C (2000). His literary fiction has appeared in the Edward Moore Review, Libra and MIR6. For 2009, he was awarded a grant from Arts Council England (Literature) for long fiction, which has culminated in his novel Sunrise with Sea Monsters (due for publication in 2012, Canonbury Press). It is the story of an angst-ridden art dealer plagued by a dysfunctional Mum, a bitchy ex-wife and a mute parrot, and his Odyssey around the experimental therapy centres of London and Somerset. Richard lives in Little Venice with Rebecca, his partner, and Ollie, their son. Baxter, his Welsh terrier, has retired to the south coast.