Phil Harrison

Writer, filmmaker, but mostly still dreaming of a Liverpool call-up. New novel, Silverback, out 20 Jun 2024 with @FleetReads.

[Phil Harrison @fillharrison]

@Alex__1789 @TimandraHarknes Alex, I found this to be a sensitive and useful outline of the question in general and this particular case: https://t.co/lZLSrZbLxm

[Sean Ingle @seaningle]

Utterly heartbreaking hearing the Italian boxer Angela Carini in the mixed zone. Blood on her shorts.

Broke down in tears as she explained that she had never been hit so hard before.

Added that she came her to honour her father, that she was a warrior, but had to stop.

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

They won’t, but whoever allowed this wretched decision to go ahead should be sacked. Almost everyone knows, deep down, that this is rotten. And it’s not even simply a case of female achievements being diminished, awful as that is. Here it means genuine physical danger

[Phil Harrison @fillharrison]

Utterly shameful.

[Sean Ingle @seaningle]

The Italian Angela Carini is crying her eyes out in the ring.

She decides not to continue after being hit hard twice by the Algerian Imane Khelif. Fight lasted 46 seconds. First punched knocked her chin strap off and she was holding her nose.

[Phil Harrison @fillharrison]

@RizomaSchool https://t.co/cNHb9AWQbr

[John Self is now on Bluesky @john_self]

"Come for the murder mystery, and stay for a knotty and impressive portrait of a peculiarly Ulster form of masculinity."

Me on Phil Harrison's surprising new novel SILVERBACK:

https://t.co/E8vBMaw047

[Phil Harrison @fillharrison]

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[Fleet @FleetReads]

In a Belfast courtroom Robert Rusting is on trial for the murder of his father. On the jury is James Fechner, a middle-aged surgeon inexplicably drawn to the man before him.

#fillharrison's explosive #Silverback is out in hardback today: https://t.co/RrpLzUj0ab

[Fleet @FleetReads]

'He was prodigious, his body an exaggeration. Menace attended
him.'

@fillharrison's #Silverback is a powerful portrayal of the complications of masculinity and of the line between fragility and violence.

Out this week: https://t.co/5MnzjU78Gz

[Póg Mo Goal @pogmogoal]

You know the English game’s gone when Man United are the good guys

[Phil Harrison @fillharrison]

Absolute nailed on banger of the year, give them the Mercury right now

[RTÉ @rte]

✨🎵 “I searched for my spark and I found it” ✨🎵

Cruinniú na nÓg, Europe’s only national free day of creativity for young people is back, with over 1,000 free activities, taking place on Saturday, June 15. 🎉

#CruinniuNaNog - an initiative of @creativeirl, supported by @rte

[Phil Harrison @fillharrison]

Well this is fun. Delighted to announce that my new novel, 'Silverback', will be published on 20th June by @FleetReads. Pre-orders now open 👀

[Fleet @FleetReads]

'Seriously impressive' Colin Walsh

Coming this June, @fillharrison's Silverback is a powerful portrayal of the complications of masculinity and of the line between fragility and violence told in an unforgettable voice.

Find out more: https://t.co/iLG7sxknRb

[Phil Harrison @fillharrison]

@Miss_Snuffy Beautiful. Reminds of the superb little Kieslowski film in a similar vein - he asks people from age 1 to 100 who they are and what they want:
https://t.co/C9WD2gIzyl

[Phil Harrison @fillharrison]

@tennysonsarah1 @linda9293 @LucyMangan @guardian That's a different @fillharrison, @tennysonsarah1 😬

[Phil Harrison @fillharrison]

@elliot__ross @guardian It's a great piece too

[Phil Harrison @fillharrison]

@elliot__ross @guardian Love it @elliot__ross ❤️

[Phil Harrison @fillharrison]

@elliot__ross @guardian

[Phil Harrison @fillharrison]

@SarahTheHaider @CarolGilligan1 @naomi_snider I think this definition is far more useful and provocative than any other I have heard, and points towards a universalism in response rather than the 'them and us' approach most evident within much contemporary feminism.

[Phil Harrison @fillharrison]

@SarahTheHaider @CarolGilligan1 @naomi_snider '.. it is in the name of morality – of feminine goodness and masculine honour – that these defensive responses to loss maintain the conditions of submission and dominance, silence and violence, that uphold a patriarchal order.'