Anthony Ferner
Anthony is an author who has recently published his second book 'Inside the Bone Box' with Fairlight books. He has been writing fiction since the 1990s and published his first book Winegarden in 2015 with Holland Park Press.
Anthony's story
Anthony studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford before gaining his Masters and DPhil in Sociology and Social work from Sussex.
He was a professor in international business and published numerous research articles and monographs until he made the transition from academia to writing upon his retirement in 2014.
, published by Fairlight Books in July 2018.
What attracted you to studying at Sussex?
After finishing my undergraduate degree and working for a while in Paris, I was casting round for what to do next. Eventually I decided on a postgraduate course in Sociology as that was the part of my degree I’d got most out of. I chose Sussex because they had an interesting-looking Sociology Masters, including Cultural Sociology and the Sociology of Development. I stayed on to do my doctorate (on economic development in Peru) with a supervisor from the Institute of Development Studies.