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Tom Benn



Tom Benn was born in 1987, and grew up in Stockport. He is a graduate of the UEA Creative Writing MA and was the recipient of the 2009 Malcolm Bradbury bursary.

His first novel, The Doll Princess, was shortlisted for the 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize and the Portico Prize, and longlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's John Creasey Dagger. Chamber Music was published in 2013
 

Awards: Sunday Times (2022)  see all

Genres: Mystery, Literary Fiction
 
Series
Bane
   1. The Doll Princess (2012)
   2. Chamber Music (2013)
   3. Trouble Man (2014)
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Novels
   Oxblood (2022)
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Sanderson's Isle (2023)
James Clarke
"What a narrator. How Speake speaks. How he bends your ear, and your heart. Sanderson's Isle sometimes reads like a lost John Braine or David Storey novel. There's even a touch of Ted Lewis in its elemental fatalism. It's that good."

Awards
2022 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award : Oxblood

Award nominations
2012 John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger (longlist) : The Doll Princess


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