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Biography

Following the sudden death of his mother, Rupert Thomson was educated as a boarder at Christ's Hospital School. At seventeen, he was awarded a scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he studied Medieval History and Political Thought. He worked for four years as a copywriter in London, before abandoning his job to write full-time. Once described as "one of the strangest and most refreshingly un-English voices in contemporary fiction", and compared to writers as various as Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...

, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel García Márquez

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, Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English writer, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R...

and JG Ballard, he is the author of eight widely-acclaimed novels, the most recent of which, Death of a Murderer, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year. His sixth novel, The Book of Revelation
The Book of Revelation (novel)
The Book of Revelation is a novel by UK author Rupert Thomson. The book was published in 2000 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc and has 264 pages. The novel was unique for its detailed descriptions of a non statutory female on male rape....

, was made into a feature film by the Australian writer/director, Ana Kokkinos

Ana Kokkinos

Ana Kokkinos is an Australian film director. Kokkinos was born in Melbourne and prior to her career in film, she worked as an industrial lawyer...

. With his 2010 memoir, "This Party's Got to Stop", he has ventured into non-fiction for the first time, and explores events surrounding his father's death, and his complex relationship with his brothers and extended family. He has lived in many cities throughout the world, including Berlin and Barcelona. He currently resides in South London.

Novels

Dreams of Leaving, 1987
The Five Gates of Hell, 1991
Air & Fire, 1993
The Insult
The Insult
The Insult is a novel by Rupert Thomson. The novel describes the life of Martin Blom, who is shot while walking to his car and consequently goes blind. While being treated in a clinic, he seemingly regains his vision, but only at night...

, 1996
Soft!
Soft!
Soft! is a novel by British writer Rupert Thomson, written in 1998 London.Apparently acting as participants in a sleep experiment, the protagonists of this novel find themselves the unwitting word-of-mouth advertisers of 'Kwench!', a new soft drink....

, 1998
The Book of Revelation
The Book of Revelation (novel)
The Book of Revelation is a novel by UK author Rupert Thomson. The book was published in 2000 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc and has 264 pages. The novel was unique for its detailed descriptions of a non statutory female on male rape....

, 1999
Divided Kingdom
Divided Kingdom
Divided Kingdom is a novel by British author Rupert Thomson. It was first published in Britain by Bloomsbury in April 2005 and then in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in June 2005.-Introduction:...

, 2005
Death of a Murderer, 2007

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