Welcome to my website.
Here you can find out more about my writing.
I would love to know what you think after reading my latest novel: A Kind of Vanishing. Oirginally classed as a crime novel it has been reissued in general fiction. Do you read crime-fiction. Do you call a book with a crime in it, crime fiction?
If you belong to a book group and have read A Kind of Vanishing: do invite me along to discuss it with me and to tell me your thoughts. I am inspired by readers’ own experience of the story.
First Edition of A Kind of Vanishing
ISBN: 9780954930950
Published: 21st June 2007
A child disappears. A woman grows up harbouring a terrible secret. Her daughter wants to know the truth.
It is the summer of 1968, the day Senator Robert Kennedy is shot. Two nine-year-old girls are playing hide and seek in the ruins of a deserted village. Alice has discovered a secret…
2nd edition of A Kind of Vanishing
“Lesley Thomson is a class above and A Kind of Vanishing is a novel to treasure.” Ian Rankin
Winner of People’s Book Prize for Fiction 2010
Second Edition with Afterword by author published March 2011 TO ORDER
Lesley supports The Parkinson’s Disease Society. If you are able, please do make a donation towards improving the lives of people living with this disease.
March 7th, 2012
Lesley joins the panel of reviewers for the Chamber of Commerce Book Club in Brighton on Wednesday 7th March. The event if chaired by creative industries consultant: Lisa Holloway. The book reviewed is Outliers: the Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell.
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January 26th, 2012
First Fictions Festival at Sussex University (Myriad Editions in partnership).
Ian Rankin talked to Lesley about his first unpublished novel Summer Rites. Reading from the manuscript (found a year ago in his garage) Ian talked about how he gave up his doctorate on Muriel Spark to write this novel – a black comedy. Summer Rites, Ian assured the audience, will never be published. So this truly was a one off event.
Ian Rankin holds up original typescript of Summer Rites
Ian Rankin and Lesley Thomson
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November 24th, 2011
Friday 2oth January 2012 8pm
Lesley will be talking to crimewriter, Ian Rankin at Sussex University as part of the First Fictions Festival . For the first time, Ian will read from his first unpublished novel Summer Rites.
See the FIRST FICTIONS website where you can download a programme and buy tickets.
Note: Ian will be talking about this with Mark Lawson on Radio Four’s Front Row on Wednesday 18th January 2012
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