Tom Lamont is an award-winning journalist and one of the founding writers for the Guardian’s Long Reads.
He is the interviewer of choice for Adele and Harry Styles, having written in depth about both of these musicians since they first emerged to fame in the 2010s.
Lamont's debut novel is Going Home: A Novel of Boys, Mistakes, and Second Chances.
At Lit Hub the writer tagged five titles featuring unconventional families. One title on the list:
Hilary Mantel, Wolf HallRead about another entry on the list.
One of the great pleasures in Hilary Mantel’s endlessly rereadable saga about the 16th-century Tudor court is the ragtag family of quasi-relations and strays thatthe central character, Thomas Cromwell, assembles about himself over the trilogy’s three novels. True, Gregory Cromwell, a beloved figure in the ensemble, is his son and heir; and at the trilogy’s start Cromwell has other children, a wife….
Before too long his family is more or less made up of aides, from right-hand-man Rafe to knife-fighting bodyguard Christophe to the loyal, cantankerous cook, Thurston.
Wolf Hall made the Amazon Book Review editors' list of twelve of their favorite long books, Mark Skinner's top ten list of books featuring English and British monarchs, Emily Mitchell's list of five of the best historical novels to remind you how strange the past really was, Jody Hadlock's list of nine historical novels featuring real people as main characters, Benjamin Myers's top ten list of mentors in fiction, Jessie Burton's list of eleven of the best books about/with cats, Pete Buttigieg’s ten favorite books list, Ruby Bentall's six best books list, Rula Lenska's six favorite books list, Deborah Cadbury's top ten list of books about royal families, Peter Stanford's top ten list of Protestants in fiction, Melissa Harrsion's ten top depictions of British rain, the Telegraph's list of the 21 greatest television adaptations of novels, BBC Culture's list of the 21st century’s twelve greatest novels, Ester Bloom's ten list of books for fans of the television series House of Cards, Rachel Cantor's list of the ten worst jobs in books, Kathryn Williams's reading list on pride, the Barnes & Noble Review's list of books on baby-watching in Great Britain, Julie Buntin's top ten list of literary kids with deadbeat and/or absent dads, Hermione Norris's 6 best books list, John Mullan's list of ten of the best cardinals in literature, the Barnes & Noble Review's list of five books on dangerous minds and Lev Grossman's list of the top ten fiction books of 2009, and is one of Geraldine Brooks's favorite works of historical fiction; Matt Beynon Rees called it "[s]imply the best historical novel for many, many years."
--Marshal Zeringue
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