Philip Paris

Philip Paris is a Scottish novelist whose historical and contemporary fiction is often set in Scotland and explores the country's people, landscapes, and history. He lives and works in Scotland. Effie's War is a novel set during the Second World War in the Scottish Highlands, following Effie who must navigate the upheavals of wartime in a close-knit Highland community. The novel explores how war transforms even the most remote communities and the quiet courage of those who kept the home fires burning. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers atmospheric Scottish fiction that brings the Highlands to vivid life — stories rooted in landscape, community, and resilience.