Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Prague | 2002 | Buy |
| The Egyptologist | 2004 | Buy |
| Angelica | 2007 | Buy |
| The Song Is You | 2009 | Buy |
| The Tragedy of Arthur | 2011 | Buy |
| The King at the Edge of the World | 2020 | Buy |
Arthur Phillips writes literary fiction that treats narrative form as subject matter. Prague, his debut, is set entirely in Budapest — the title refers to the city its characters believe would have been the better destination. The Egyptologist alternates between two unreliable narrators separated by decades, each trying to make history serve their purposes.
The Tragedy of Arthur may be his most ambitious work — a novel structured as a memoir about discovering a lost Shakespeare play, with the full text of the fake play included. The King at the Edge of the World, his most recent, is a historical novel about Elizabethan espionage. Six novels over eighteen years show a writer interested in the ways people construct stories about themselves and their pasts.