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    Charles Phillips

    Charles Phillips

    Author, freelance writer and copy-editor

    London, United Kingdom

    I am the author of more than 30 books, specializing in history, mythology, cinema & arts, Mind/Body/Spirit and general childrens. I have more than 20 years experience as an...Read moreI am the author of more than 30 books, specializing in history, mythology, cinema & arts, Mind/Body/Spirit and general childrens. I have more than 20 years experience as an editor and have worked on a very wide variety of subjects, including history, medicine & health, cinema & arts, travel guides and personnel/business. My Business Brain Trainer, Stay Smart and Brain Builders puzzles series are published in autumn 2011. In 2009-10 my How to Think series (six books of 50 puzzles to develop Lateral, Creative, Logical, Visual, Tactical & Quick Thinking) was published in 19 language editions, including in Denmark, Portugal, Germany, France, Brazil, Japan and UK. I have written popular history books on Crusades and chivalry, military history, British royalty, Aztecs and Maya, world mythologies and religions. I contributed to 1001 Battles (2011) and The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Islamic Art & Architecture (2010), as well as many others.

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    Summary: Published writing, sole author unless stated
    Popular science and psychology; Mind/Body/Spirit; Gift books and games
    • How to Think • six books of 50 puzzles to develop Lateral, Creative, Logical, Visual, Tactical & Quick Thinking • published in 17 languages, including in Denmark, Portugal, Germany, France, Japan and UK 2009-2010
    • Left Brain Right Brain: 50 Puzzles to Change the Way You Think Connections Book Publishing 2010
    • IQ Tester: Boost Your Intelligence Connections Book Publishing 2010
    • Question writer for Trivial Pursuit games, Websters International Publishers 2009
    • Memory Booster BookinaBox (Connections Book Publishing) 2008
    • Maths Master BookinaBox (Connections Book Publishing) 2007, also Metro Books in 2008 as Logic Box
    • Brain Box BookinaBox (Connections Book Publishing) 2006, also Metro Books in 2008 as Brain Box
    • Colour for Life Ryland, Peters & Small 2004
    • Fatherhood Ryland, Peters & Small 2004
    • My Dream Journal Ryland, Peters & Small 2003

    Popular history
    • An Illustrated History of the Crusades and the Crusader Knights Lorenz Books 2009
    • An Illustrated History of Knights and the Golden Age of Chivalry Lorenz Books 2008
    • The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Royal Britain Lorenz Books 2008
    • The Complete Illustrated Guide to the Castles, Stately Homes and Palaces of Britain and Ireland Lorenz Books 2007
    • Kings and Queens of Ancient Britain Southwater Books 2007
    • Kings and Queens of Britain’s Golden Age Southwater Books 2007
    • The Complete Illustrated Guide to the Kings and Queens of Britain Lorenz Books 2006
    • The Mythology of the Aztec and Maya Southwater Books 2006
    • Lost Empires: Ancient Aztec and Maya Southwater Books 2005
    • The Aztec and Maya World Lorenz Books 2005
    • Tartan: An Illustrated Directory Southwater Books 2005
    • The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Aztec and Maya Lorenz Books 2004
    • The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Tartan Lorenz Books 2004 (contributor)
    • Millennium Year by Year, America’s Century, Twentieth Century Year by Year, Britain’s Century, 2000 updates DK
    • How Was It Done? Reader’s Digest 1995 (contributor)
    • Chronicle of Britain Chronicle Communications 1992 (contributor)
    • Chronicle of the Royal Family Chronicle Communications 1991 (contributor)
    • Chronicle of the Year 1990 & 1991 Chronicle Communications 1990 & 1991 (contributor)

    Mythology and ancient history
    • Ancient Civilizations, Duncan Baird Publishers 2005 (contributor)
    • Time-Life Myth and Mankind series, Duncan Baird Publishers 1997•2000 (contributor)
    The Eternal Cycle (Indian myth), Voices of the Ancestors (African myth),
    Spirits of the Snow (Arctic myth), Realm of the Rising Sun (Japanese myth),
    Forests of the Vampire (Slavic myth), Wise Lord of the Sky (Persian myth),
    Land of the Dragon (Chinese myth), Legends of Chivalry (medieval myth),
    Lost Realms of Gold (South American myth), Great Themes (global myth).

    General reference
    • AA Book of Britain’s Coastal Walks AA Publishing 2010 (contributor)
    • Aerial Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland BCA 2005 (contributor)
    • Can They Do That? Reader’s Digest 2004 (contributor)
    • Dictionary of Modern Britain Cassell 1995 (contributor)
    • Keesing’s UK Record and Keesing’s Record of World Events CIRCA Reference 1988•1998 (contributor)
    • The Guinness Book of Football Guinness Publishing 1998 (contributor)
    • The Guinness Book of the 20th Century Guinness Publishing 1997, 1999 (contributor)
    Religion
    • The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Catholicism Lorenz Books 2009 (contributor)
    • The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Islam Lorenz Books 2009 (contributor)

    Children’s
    • The Muslim World, US high-school encyclopaedia packaged by Brown Reference 2009 (contributor)
    • National Geographic Countries of the World: Sweden National Geographic Society 2008; Japan National Geographic Society 2007
    • My Picture Encyclopaedia Make Believe Ideas 2007
    • Fiesta! Brazil, Fiesta! Peru, Fiesta! England and Fiesta! France Franklin-Watts and Grolier 1997•8
    • The 20th Century Year by Year Marshall Editions 1997-8 (contributor)

    Cinema
    • Cinema Year by Year 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 and 2001 updates DK
    • The Guinness Book of Film Guinness Publishing 1998 (contributor)

    Editing
    Guidebooks AA Book of Britain’s Walks, AA Publishing 2010; Istanbul (Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide), Lisbon (Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide), both DK 2007; Illustrated Guide to Britain’s Coast, Reader’s Digest 1996; Gallimard travel guides to Vienna and Morocco, Everyman 1994
    Health copy-editor for medical website sixpartswater.org 2009•10; Reader’s Digest Family Health Handbook, Reader’s Digest/Pfizer for Harrogate NHS Trust 2005; Complete A-Z of Medicine & Health, Reader’s Digest 2003
    Ancient & modern history Decoding Hieroglyphs, Duncan Baird Publishers 2001; The Story of Bankside, London Borough of Southwark 2001; Norris McWhirter’s Book of Historical Records, Virgin Publishing 2000; Egypt’s Sun King Amenhotep III, Duncan Baird Publishers 1999; The Story of Peckham and Nunhead, London Borough of Southwark 1999; Norris McWhirter’s Book of Millennium Records, Virgin Publishing 1998; Diana: An Extraordinary Life (partwork), De Agostini 1997
    Cinema & arts The Movies, Anness Publishing 2003; The Illustrated Dictionary of Antiques and Collectables, Marshall Editions 2001; icollector.com, website antiques project, Marshall Editions 2000; Ideas That Shaped Our World, Marshall Editions 1997
    Mind/body/spirit Learn to Pray, Duncan Baird Publishers 2001
    Sports The Chequered Flag, Orion 1993
    Cookery One Dish Meals, Reader’s Digest 1994
    Puzzles & games Word Master, Book in a Box Ltd 2005; Reader’s Digest Compendium of Puzzles and Brain Teasers, Reader’s Digest 2000
    Popular science Guinness Encyclopaedia of Science, Guinness Publishing 1994
    Law/consumer Know Your Rights, Reader’s Digest 1997
    Personnel & business Many titles for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development 1998•2004
    Children’s Several titles for makebelieveideas 2005-2010, including The Doppleganger Chronicles, Amazing Academy Survival, Beach and seashore and various Underground Ernie sticker books
    Job Title: Author and editor
    Company: DRC Phillips
    From:01/Jan/1996 To:01/Jan/2011

    Education Summary: 1985•88 MA Film & TV Studies: Polytechnic of Central London
    1981•84 BA English: Pembroke College, Oxford University
    1980 3 GCE A Levels English, History, French
    Member of the Society of Authors.

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