Sam Thompson was born in London in 1978.
His first book Communion Town, which is about a kaleidoscopic city, was published in 2012 and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His second book Jott is about friendship, madness, and modernism. It came out in 2018.
He’s written for the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and other periodicals, and has taught English lit and creative writing at Oxford University, Oxford Brookes and Queen’s University Belfast.
He lives in Belfast.
Books in order of publication:
Communion Town – 2012
Jott – 2018
Best British Short Stories 2019
Wolfstongue – 2021
Whirlwind Romance – 2022
The Fox’s Tower – 2023
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