Alice Thompson
Alice Thompson (born in Edinburgh is a Scottish novelist.[1][2]
Thompson was educated at St George's School, Edinburgh[3] then read English at Oxford and wrote her Ph.D. thesis on Henry James. In the 1980s she played keyboard with rock band The Woodentops.[3] She now has a young son and lives in Edinburgh. Her novel Justine was the joint winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Novels
- Killing Time (1990) - novella
- Justine (1996)
- Pandora's Box (1998)
- Pharos: A Ghost Story (2002)
- The Falconer (2008)
- The Existential Detective (2010)
- Burnt Island (2013)
- The Book Collector (2015)
References
- ↑ "Alice Thompson: The Scottish Review of Books Interview", Scottish Review of Books. Accessed 16 December 2010.
- ↑ Holcombe, Garan. "Alice Thompson", British Council. Accessed 24 September 2011.
- 1 2 Alice Thompson discovers island life | Herald Scotland Retrieved 7 Jan 2014.
External links
- The Act of Writing, article by Alice Thompson
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