Rupert Thomson

Rupert Thomson (b 1955, UK) is the author of 11 highly acclaimed novels and an award-winning memoir, including The Insult, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and chosen by David Bowie as one of his 100 Must-Read Books of All Time, The Book of Revelation, which was made into a feature film by Australian director Ana Kokkinos, and Death of a Murderer, which was shortlisted for the Costa Prize.

In 2010, he published a memoir, This Party’s Got to Stop, which won the Writers' Guild Non-Fiction Book of the Year award. His most recent novel is Never Anyone But You (2018). Thomson has contributed to Granta, the Financial Times, the Independent, and the Guardian.