Tom Connolly is a film maker and writer. He was raised in rural Kent and has lived in Whitstable, London, Dungeness and now in a remote corner of the Rother Valley, in East Sussex.
His apprenticeship was in film production, working as a runner and camera assistant, before directing award winning short films for the cinema and for Channel 4 and the BBC.
His first novel, The Spider Truces (Financial Times Books of the Year) has been shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award and for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2011. His second novel, Men Like Air, will be finished before England next win the World Cup.
If you'd be interested in asking Tom to visit your book group, please contact Vicky Blunden.
'He watched two cherubic kids swagger down the street, clutching their T-shirts, their bony torsos glaring in the sun...'
Read Tom Connolly's short story On Marsden Street, featured in Esquire magazine.
'There is a particular adventure in feeling that we have reached the edge of land, in the illusion that we have discovered uncharted territory, even when we do so close to home....'
Read Tom Connolly in The Independent on the Kent landscape that inspires his writing.
