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Tom Gillespie

Goodreads Author

Born

in Glasgow, The United Kingdom

May 05, 1964

Website

http://www.tom-gillespie.com

Twitter

tom_gillespie

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Horror

Influences

Haruki Murakami, Raymond Carver, Alasdair Gray, New Line Cinema, Art, ...more

Member Since

March 2012

URL

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Tom Gillespie is a novel and short fiction writer. His stories have been published worldwide in journals, e-zines and creative anthologies including East of the Web, Linden Literary Review, The Ogilvie. His work also features in The Federation of Writers, Scotland New Voices Anthology.

The Strange Book of Jacob Boyce is the first of a trilogy of novels set in Tom’s hometown of Glasgow, published by Vine Leaves Press, and available now.

Glass Work Humans – A collaborative collection of Short Stories will be published in late 2020.

Tom lives in Bath with his wife, daughter, and hyper-neurotic cat 2 . Alongside his compuslive writing habit, he works as English lecturer at the University.

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Average rating: 3.8 · 230 ratings · 89 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Strange Book of Jacob Boyce 3.56 avg rating — 146 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fear: A Modern Anthology of Horror and Terror (Volume 2) by Sherri Browning Erwin (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Jane Wright (Contributor), Sam Wyld (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.86 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Painting by Numbers 4.33 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Critical Incident Management: A Complete Response Guide by Vincent Faggiano, John McNall, Tom Gillespie (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	SILENT TEARS 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Tom’s Quotes

“It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”
― Raymond Carver

tags: love

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“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: lost-innocence, memories

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“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, lies, truth

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“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.”
― Raymond Carver

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“Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.”
― Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

tags: booze

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