Rupert Thomson, (born November 5, 1955) is an English writer. He is the author of thirteen critically acclaimed novels and an award-winning memoir. He has lived in many cities around the world, including Athens, Berlin, New York, Sydney, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Rome. In 2010, after several years in Barcelona, he moved back to London. He has contributed to the Financial Times, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Granta, and the Independent.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
1987 – Dreams of Leaving
1991 – The Five Gates of Hell
1993 – Air and Fire
1996 – The Insult
1998 – Soft
1999 – The Book of Revelation
2005 – Divided Kingdom
2007 – Death of a Murderer
2013 – Secrecy
2015 – Katherine Carlyle
2018 – Never Anyone but You
2020 – NVK (as Temple Drake)
2021 – Barcelona Dreaming
2024 – How to Make a Bomb
Memoir
2010 – This Party’s Got to Stop
Short Stories
1988 – Look, The Monkey’s Laughing
1989 – Other Things
2014 – To William Burroughs, from his Wife
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