Blog posts for the novel: A Game For The Young – all posts written by David P. Philip.
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Frequently Asked Questions – A Game For The Young
What inspired you to write a novel? About five years ago I sat down and wrote a bucket list. The list included things like learning to play piano, learning to speak french, become a father, run a marathon and a load of other cliché experiences, but the one that immediately stuck out to me was…
Chapter One – Excerpt From ‘A Game For The Young’
Hawking It was late January and the seasonal weather had brought with it a cold and bitter winter. By 3.00AM the soft wind had become a freezing chill and the windows of the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford were showing the first signs of frost. This was one of the bases of operations for the…
Book Launch Photos – A Game For The Young
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The Locations In Oxford Used In ‘A Game For The Young’
Oxford Botantic Gardens Visit inspiring herbaceous borders, glasshouses that take you around the World or simply relax in the oldest Botanic Garden in Britain. The Botanic Garden is the most compact, yet diverse collection of plants in the World right in the heart of the city centre and is open throughout the year for you…
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Chapter Four – Excerpt From ‘A Game For The Young’
An Oxford Morning SEVEN MONTHS LATER I was fifteen when I read an article in a newspaper headlined ‘Student Life: An Education For The Modern Stone Age’. It was full of the sort of shit you’d expect, but the message it sent was pretty clear: If you don’t know what to do with your life…
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Chapter Four (Opening) – Excerpt From ‘A Game For The Young’
Page 22. An Oxford Morning ‘I was fifteen when I read an article in a newspaper headlined ‘Student Life: An Education For The Modern Stone Age’. It was full of the sort of shit you’d expect, but the message it sent was pretty clear: If you don’t know what to do with your life then…
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Chapter Three – Excerpt From ‘A Game For The Young’
Leap Of Faith ‘Inconclusive.’ The professor repeated what he’d told Ellie earlier that day. It was nearing midnight and a young team of scientists had assembled on the ground floor of a Computing Laboratory – one of their agreed meeting points in the Department of Engineering Science. They kept the room dark. Desk lamps glowed…
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Chapter Six – Excerpt From ‘A Game For The Young’
Page 36-37. “It started as a myth, a whisper around campus. Conor first heard the rumours over a pint with Samuel and then again during a Digital Systems workshop a week later. Some were saying that it began in Cambridge, but no one truly knew. It was never first hand, always a friend of a…
Chapter Two – Excerpt From ‘A Game For The Young’
Message In A Bottle It had been over a week since Ellie had submitted her research. More than two years of intensive study and theoretical science, packaged into a collection of documents, flow diagrams and chemical formulas that equated to one of the biggest discoveries in human history. Finally the weight had been lifted. At…
A Game For The Young – Afterword
Knowledge, at least for me, has a very fluid and debatable definition. Like many things, the initial thought process of a question such as ‘What is knowledge?’ is simple, pigeon holed quite neatly in our brains. The dictionary’s definition states that knowledge is the ‘acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or…
Chapter Five – Excerpt From ‘A Game For The Young’
Page 26. “Conor and his new friend Samuel Milton took in the view as they sat comfortably in the warmth of the Eagle & Child. They watched as the rain lightly tapped against the windows, as the puddles slowly formed on the street corners. Passers-by were pulling out their umbrellas and frantically running to shelter.…
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Images From ‘A Game For The Young’
Radcliffe Camera The Famous Oxford Reading Room. Oxford The Oxford Skyline. David P. Philip Poem Of Betterment. What would you be? Professor William H. Daniels. David P. Philip Having Breakfast In Oxford. David P. Philip Portrait image holding my novel: A Game For The Young A Game For The Young by David P. Philip If…
Chapter Nineteen – Excerpt from ‘A Game For The Young’
Page 122-123. As she said it Conor suddenly leaned forward, breathing heavy and erratic. Ellie could see his expression change, noting it with a smile. ‘Let it grow in your mind. Believe you know.’ He gripped the bench and flinched, briefly closing his eyes only to open them wide. Staring intensely at the ground, he…
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Prologue – Excerpt From ‘A Game For The Young’
‘You know this can’t go on,’ the detective warned, offering a lukewarm cup of tea from across the table. A gesture of kindness under the guise of friendship. But they weren’t friends. To Ellie’s left, a mirror she presumed to be two-way spread over one third of the wall. To her right, a door securely…
Publication Day – Thank you!
So today’s the day. ‘A Game For The Young’ is finally available to purchase and read from a multitude of online retailers including Amazon, Waterstones, Tesco and WHSmith. What a feeling! With four years of research, writing and editing behind me; I’m feeling confident that the novel is in good shape and am looking forward…
The ‘Unofficial’ Soundtrack to A Game For The Young
The ‘Unofficial’ Soundtrack Like many I’m sure, I’m often listening to music whilst I read/write. Not long ago I was looking for the perfect compilation of background music and it got me thinking about the songs I was listening to whilst writing ‘A Game For The Young’. Judging by the number of plays, these are…
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A Game For The Young – Press Release
David P. Philip releases debut novel, which promises to be a thriller like no other. Exploring obsession, addiction and the abuse of power, Philip’s debut novel, A Game for the Young, expertly toys with the idea of knowledge being a drug. After being accepted into Oxford University, Conor Martin finds himself thrust into an interviewing process…
A Game For The Young Ebook Retailers
A Game For The Young is set to be distributed as an Ebook to international retailers covering Europe, N. America & Canada, S. America, Africa, Asia and Australia. Some of the major online retailers in these regions include: ACCO Advantage Media Group (Australia) Akademibokhandeln Bokus AB All Romance eBooks / Omni Lit Amazon France Amazon…
First Review of ‘A Game for the Young’
Readers of David P. Philip’s latest novel, A Game for the Young, are in for a treat. It is a multidimensional text; considering scientific discovery and the issue of ethics in experimentation, as well as delving into the personal lives of its characters and exploring their darkest secrets. Set with the idyllic backdrop of Oxford…
Chapter Thirty – Excerpt From ‘A Game For The Young’
An Interesting Choice Of Words Dr Arthur Zimmerman had been a fully qualified psychiatrist for gone thirty years, graduating with honours from Oxford’s prestigious Keble College back in the days when students were gentlemen and study was the product of paper, ink and a library card. Strolling around his office with notable pride and…
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A Game For The Young – One Year Later
Time flies it would seem, and though I still can’t believe I’m writing this, it was ONE YEAR AGO today that my first novel ‘A Game For The Young’ was published! Firstly a huge thank you if you’ve been able to take the time to read it. Looking back over the year has given me…
Chapter Five – Excerpt From ‘A Game For The Young’
The Odds Game Conor and his new friend Samuel Milton took in the view as they sat comfortably in the warmth of the Eagle & Child. They watched as the rain lightly tapped against the windows, as the puddles slowly formed on the street corners. Passers-by were pulling out their umbrellas and frantically running to…
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Chapter Six – Excerpt From ‘A Game For The Young’
The Beginning Of Something Pure Over a month had now passed and for Conor the day-to-day life of an Oxford student was starting to take shape. The first core module of his degree was well underway and his week-by-week schedule was all but memorised. Outside of his lectures and seminars, Samuel and Conor had already…
Chapter Seven – Excerpt From ‘A Game For The Young’
A Friend In Need Samuel Milton strolled across the shingled courtyard outside Tennyson House, kicking the odd pebble as he walked. The temperature was starting to drop during the evenings and he could see his breath appear in front of him as if he were smoking. In his right hand he held a new top-of-the-range…
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Chapter Eight – Excerpt From ‘A Game For The Young’
Everything Has Meaning The new day had started with a focus that disconnected Conor from the caffeine headache bidding for his attention. He woke wide-eyed and alert long before his alarm clock needed to help. He had spent most of the morning marvelling at his achievement, or at least he believed it was his to…
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