Phil Murphy Author & Illustrator

Phil Murphy was a political journalist for 15 years, becoming Political Editor of the Press Association, Britain’s leading news agency. He worked as the Labour Party’s Director of Communications, then as a political advisor to then PM, Tony Blair, in 10 Downing Street. The memory of visiting a devastated Sarajevo just months after the near four-year siege of the city ended drove him to research the story of the fall of Yugoslavia and produce this novel.