![]() ![]() ![]() He has also edited The Sayings of Noël Coward (1997). ![]() The Whale: In Search Of The Giants Of The Sea (2010).Leviathan or, The Whale (2008), which won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.England's Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia (2005), about Mary Anne Girling and the New Forest Shakers.Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (2000), the story of Netley Hospital in Southampton.Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the First World War (1997).Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant (1990).Hoare is the author of ten works of non-fiction: In 2009 he exhibited artworks made with Angela Cockayne at Viktor Wynd Fine Art Inc in London Works ![]() In 1982–83, he ran the record label Operation Twilight, a UK-based subsidiary of the Belgian Les Disques du Crépuscule, which launched the career of the Pale Fountains. Hoare was born in Southampton and attended St Mary's College. Philip was my confirmation name Hoare my mother's maiden name. Imagine having to spend your entire life living with people asking: 'You're not that astronomer, are you?' Or: 'Do you play the xylophone?' Another reason was that when I was managing bands I used to review my own bands for the NME and Sounds as Philip Hoare. He chose the name Philip Hoare to avoid confusion with astronomer Patrick Moore: ![]()
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