Since 2017, Philip Yorke has been absorbed in the turbulent times of Seventeenth Century Britain. But for almost two decades, he worked as an award-winning newspaper and broadcast journalist – gathering facts and stitching stories together.

Rebellion, Philip’s first novel, was published in 2019. It was positively received by readers and reviewers alike all over the world. Redemption, the second part of the Hacker Chronicles, followed in 2022. Both books tell the story of the life and times of Francis Hacker, one of Parliament’s most courageous military commanders during the conflict that resulted in three civil wars, a king losing his head, and the rise of Oliver Cromwell.

A further three more novels are planned in the series. The third instalment is scheduled to be published in 2026.

In 2023, Sunshine on my mind, a standalone story of a two-week holiday in the life of a 12-year-old boy, set in Yorkshire during the summer of 1977, was published. It is a part biographical, part fictional, account of life in the seventies.

Today, Philip Yorke lives in the Midlands with his wife, Julie, and two of their five children (the others have fled the nest). When he is not writing, Philip can be found giving talks on a variety of Civil War-related subjects, reading newspapers and books, drinking coffee at a favourite bolt hole, and supporting his favourite charity.