"Finally, it was cocaine bananas time"

Tom Lamont and Kaliane Bradley are heading to #LondonLiteratureFestival at the Southbank Centre in October to talk about their brilliant debut novels! Tickets are available now for this exciting event and can be purchased via the following link - brnw.ch/21wLg0i

Tom Lamont's debut Going Home is an impressive piece of British realism. It's also a love story, but one in which reluctant guardians fall for the child tragedy has placed in their care. My review in tomorrow's FT Life & Arts. ft.com/content/b035d9…

Come see me gab about writing fic and nonfic… the overlaps and crosspollinations… with Bella Mackie, tomorrow (Thurs 18th) at Owl Bookshop in K-Town… 6.30pm… local pub after dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/to…

Just finished this excellent novel. Having a daughter the same age as Joel - and a dad in a similar position to Vic - it brought a tear to my eye more than once. Moving without being overly sentimental. Characters were so well drawn. Loved it.

"Thoroughly & brutally, end-of-school exams have returned the supreme judgment on a young person’s education for at least a century. Exams are our attempt to sum up whole teenagehoods in manageable labels – AAA, ACE, AAC" From our archive by Tom Lamont theguardian.com/education/2021…

An event not to be missed at @WaterstonesEnf! 🧡 Award-winning journalist Tom Lamont talks about his debut novel #GoingHome, hosted by writer and journalist Yasmina Floyer. Happening on Tuesday 10 September at 7pm. Get your tickets here: brnw.ch/21wMcGk

James Salter’s backstory as an all-American hero did not translate into easy success as a writer. Yet several of his novels are now highly regarded. Tom Lamont explores how Salter’s life gave his fiction its special savour. literaryreview.co.uk/author-aviator

I wrote about the life and work of one of my favourite authors, James Salter, for Literary Review. Didn’t make the cut: Salter, on a late press tour, asking my 8mo pregnant wife if she was “planning to nurse”

The opening paragraph of this brilliant Eva Wiseman story (free-to-read today) reminds me in all the best ways of the funniest ever par #1, in Elmore Leonard’s Pronto the-fence.com/the-knife/

Elmhirst + competitive hedge trimming. Finally.

Ten years since The Guardian Long Read launched—! Proud to have been a part of Jonathan Shainin + Clare Longrigg + David Wolf ’s amazing run. Excited to have a new one out tomorrow (about rollercoasters? Clare’s idea)

I wrote a new longreAARRGGGHH! All about rollercoaAARRGGGHH! theguardian.com/travel/2024/oc… With thanks to the ride creators and obsessives who contributed, also Clare Longrigg for the idea and the edit

These books are too good to keep to ourselves. Our editors selected three incredible debuts this month from promising authors. Read more from the authors on the inspiration behind each of these exceptional novels. apple.co/JanDebuts

GOING HOME by Tom Lamont is People's book of the week! 🥳

Tom Lamont People GOING HOME is also one of the The New Yorker's favorite books of the week! newyorker.com/best-books-2025

Paperback -3wks… pre-order GOING HOME through Waterstones dot com this weekend and get 25% off with code PREORDER25… then wait for it arrive from on your doorstep, hot and orange, on March 13th. Tx waterstones.com/book/going-hom…

Delighted to announce the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award longlist 2025: authorsclub.co.uk/longlist-for-a… Congrats Colin Barrett Mark Bowles Kaliane Bradley @EmilyHthinks Tom Lamont #FerdiaLennon #PhoebeMcIntosh #TomNewlands Scott Preston #Varaidzo Leo Vardiashvili #LaiWen