Rupert Thomson
Barcelona Dreaming by Rupert Thomson review – a magical homage to Catalonia
These taut interconnected novellas, set on the eve of the financial crash, evoke the drama and charm of one of Europe’s most attractive cities
Rob Doyle
21, Jun, 2021 @8:00 AM
Barcelona Dreaming by Rupert Thomson review – heartbreak and hope in the city
Three linked novellas offer an unearthly, multilayered view of Barcelona, with its beaches and bars, beauty and dark shadows
Nicholas Wroe
10, Jun, 2021 @8:00 AM
Top 10 books about Florence
Seducing writers from Boccaccio to EM Forster, this city has given us gossipy and rich histories, and a shadowy backdrop to crime
Christobel Kent
26, Aug, 2020 @9:48 AM
Rupert Thomson: ‘I'm drawn to Flannery O'Connor's quiet savagery’
The novelist on Mary Norton, Thomas Hardy, finding a long-lost brother through his own memoir and publishers’ hype
Rupert Thomson
26, Jan, 2019 @11:00 AM
Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson review – life transformed by art
Reinventing themselves and resisting Nazi occupation: the French surrealists Claude Cahun and her lover Marcel Moore inspire a taut, magnificently controlled novel
Elizabeth Lowry
15, Jun, 2018 @6:29 AM
Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson review – arrestingly accomplished
Two real-life artistic pioneers challenge gender boundaries and the Nazis in Thomson’s elegant and menacing 10th novel
Miranda Seymour
27, May, 2018 @6:00 AM
How my novel ended up on David Bowie's must-read list
To find the novel I’d written was one of my hero’s favourites – and may now be chosen for his new book group – is an honour like no other, writes Rupert Thomson
Rupert Thomson
04, Jan, 2018 @12:23 PM
Julian Barnes, Sebastian Faulks, Leïla Slimani … the best fiction for 2018
Books by Rupert Thomson, Aminatta Forna and a clutch of brilliant debuts are among the novels to look out for this year
Alex Preston
31, Dec, 2017 @8:00 AM
Top 10 Arctic novels
The stark extremes of this forbidding territory have provided a brilliant setting for writers from Mary Shelley to Alistair MacLean, writes novelist Ian McGuire
Ian McGuire
17, Feb, 2016 @12:46 PM
Costa short story prize reveals identities of anonymised finalists
The six-strong shortlist, which the public have been voting for ‘blind’, includes work by Rupert Thomson, Peggy Riley and Annalisa Crawford
Richard Lea
18, Jan, 2016 @4:25 PM
Katherine Carlyle by Rupert Thomson review – resists easy categories
A young woman walks out on her life and begins a quest for meaning in Rupert Thomson’s latest bold and compelling novel
Stephanie Merritt
15, Nov, 2015 @10:00 AM
Katherine Carlyle by Rupert Thomson review – swift, shocking and satisfying
How can you be ‘born twice’? A young woman’s existential road trip takes her from Rome to Russia and beyond
M John Harrison
06, Nov, 2015 @9:00 AM
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