Deborah Philips has published on the narratives of television, carnival and post-war women's fiction and has a particular research interest in the conventions and structures of the stories employed in popular culture and in everyday life. She has a background in journalism and publishing, as a writer and as an editor ofWomen's Review. Her publications includeBrave New Causes (with Ian Haywood) ;Writing Romance: Women's Fiction 1945-2005andTheme Park Stories: An Archaeology of the Narratives of the Pleasure Garden.