Mike Phillips (writer)
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Mike Phillips is a British writer of Guyanese descent. He was born in Georgetown, Guyana and came to Britain in 1956 as a child. He has graduated from the University of Essex.
He worked for the BBC as a journalist, then lectured at the University of Westminster. Since 1992 Phillips is full-time writer. He has published some crime novels including Blood Rights (1989), The Late Candidate (1990), Point of Darkness (1994), An Image to Die For (1995), The Dancing Face (1997), A Shadow of Myself (2000). On the other hand, Phillips has published some essays about multi-racial image of present-day Britain including the book London Crossings: A Biography of Black Britain (2001). With his brother, the political journalist Trevor Phillips, he wrote Windrush: Irresistible Rise of Multi-racial Britain (1998, HarperCollins, ISBN 0-00-255909-9).
