Phil Carradice

Phil Carradice (born 1947), is a Welsh writer and broadcaster.

Carradice was born in Pembroke Dock. He was educated at Cardiff College of Education and Cardiff University, and became a teacher and social worker. After several years as head of Headlands Special School in Penarth, near Cardiff, he retired from the teaching profession to become a full-time writer. He hosts a history series on BBC Radio Wales entitled The Past Master.

Carradice is a prolific public speaker and travels extensively in the course of his work.

Fiction

 * Hour of the Wolf (1985)

Children's

 * The Bosun's Secret (2000)
 * The Pirates of Thorn Island (2001)
 * Hannah Goes to War (2005)
 * Black Bart's Treasure (2007)
 * The Wild West Story (2013)

Non-fiction

 * Failures of System (1976)
 * The Last Invasion (1992)
 * The Write Way (1996)
 * Welsh Islands (1997)
 * Shooting the Sacred Cows (1998)
 * Exploring the Pembrokeshire Coast (2002)
 * Wales at War (2005)
 * Coming Home: Wales After the War (2005)
 * A Town Built to Build Ships - A History of Pembroke Dock (2006)
 * Life Choices (2006)
 * People’s Poetry of the Great War (Cecil Woolf, 2007)
 * The Black Chair (2008)
 * People’s Poetry of World War Two (Cecil Woolf, 2009)
 * The First World War in the Air (Amberley, 2012)
 * 1914:the First World War at Sea in Photographs (Amberley, 2014)
 * The Battles of Coronel and the Falklands: British Naval Campaigns in the Southern Hemisphere 1914-19 (Fonthill, 2014)
 * The Cuban Missile Crisis: 13 Days on an Atomic Knife Edge, October 1962 (Pen & Sword Books, 2018)

Poetry

 * Cautionary Tale (1998)
 * Ghostly Riders (2002)