Journalist // tom dot lamont dot freelance at theguardian dot com // novel GOING HOME coming from @SceptreBooks // literary agent Jane Finigan @LandRAgency
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David has been an influence and a lodestar ever since I read those first intoxicating lines of Frobisher in chap 3 of Cloud Atlas. He enlarged my understanding of what's possible and permitted in fiction, ie anything, as long as it's careful, unboring, FELT. Bowled over by this
Just finished @tomlamont's fine & spirit-lifting debut novel of friendship, fatherhood, growth and forgiveness. A bluff song of praise to North London, peopled by engaging, fallible characters, and rich in glinting turns of phrase. @SceptreBooks.
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Delighted to announce the @AuthorsClub Best First Novel Award longlist 2025: authorsclub.co.uk/longlist-f… Congrats @ColinBarrett82 @Mark_A_Bowles @kaliane_bradley @EmilyHthinks @tomlamont #FerdiaLennon #PhoebeMcIntosh #TomNewlands @Scott__Preston #Varaidzo @L_Vardiashvili #LaiWen
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
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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.
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GOING HOME is also one of the @NewYorker's favorite books of the week!
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I wrote a new longreAARRGGGHH!
All about rollercoaAARRGGGHH!
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With thanks to the ride creators and obsessives who contributed, also @ClareLongrigg for the idea and the edit
Ten years since @gdnlongread launched—! Proud to have been a part of @jonathanshainin + @ClareLongrigg + @davidedgarwolf ’s amazing run. Excited to have a new one out tomorrow (about rollercoasters? Clare’s idea)
Tomorrow we're publishing a new piece by @tomlamont. Here are a few of our favourite of his pieces from our archive:
1. The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground theguardian.com/news/2020/ma…
Elmhirst + competitive hedge trimming. Finally.
If you've ever wondered about topiary, or if someone has ever made a tableau of Moby-Dick out of their hedge, or if there is a competition for topiarists run by a high-end ladder company, then this is the piece for you! For @NewYorker newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…
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
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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.
@tomlamont explores how Salter’s life gave his fiction its special savour.
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I wrote about the life and work of one of my favourite authors, James Salter, for @Lit_Review. Didn’t make the cut: Salter, on a late press tour, asking my 8mo pregnant wife if she was “planning to nurse”
Wonderful piece by novelist-reporter-critic @tomlamont on the life and work of James Salter
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An event not to be missed at @WaterstonesEnf! 🧡
Award-winning journalist @tomlamont 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
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"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 @tomlamont
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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.
Just finished @tomlamont's fine & spirit-lifting debut novel of friendship, fatherhood, growth and forgiveness. A bluff song of praise to North London, peopled by engaging, fallible characters, and rich in glinting turns of phrase. @SceptreBooks.
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
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Local journalist now debut author @tomlamont will be talking to Bella Mackie about his new novel Going Home at the Owl. With a Kentish Town vibe Going Home is a funny, achingly sad, sneakily wise story of family and fatherhood…
Tickets
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Tom Lamont and Kaliane Bradley are heading to #LondonLiteratureFestival at the @southbankcentre 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
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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/b035d93a-fd51…
"Finally, it was cocaine bananas time"
Spent a few days with some of the last dedicated court reporters in the country, @CourtNewsUK at the Old Bailey, watching cases of cocaine smuggled in bananas and gang murders and wondering why so much of this stuff is never known. For @gdnlongread theguardian.com/news/article…