Tom Crewe
@TomCrewe1
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Winner of Orwell Prize, South Bank Award, the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger, Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, and Betty Trask Prize. Editor at the @LRB .
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Thrilled to have won the
@Soc_of_Authors
Betty Trask Prize, and very grateful to the judges, Michael Donkor, Anjali Joseph and Alex Preston. Grateful also, and always, to everyone who has bought the book and to booksellers for putting it in people’s hands.
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Today is official UK publication day for THE NEW LIFE. I still have the Word doc from 2013, when I got out of bed to write down my ideas for this novel because they were crowding in so quickly. It’s been a long journey, and I’m so excited for it to be read. Here’s to a new life.
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An honour, and a joyful surprise, to win the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction last night, among so many great writers. Thank you to the judges, to everyone who has bought a copy so far, and to booksellers everywhere.
The winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2023 is THE NEW LIFE by Tom Crewe (
@TomCrewe1
), published by
@ChattoBooks
, which explores sexual identities in 1890s London with great compassion, lucidity and poise.
Congratulations Tom, and all involved with the book!
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Bloody thrilled to win the South Bank Award for Literature, and to be able to celebrate with my brother and the family, and my Grayson Perry statuette of Melvyn Bragg as a cat.
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Magnificently happy to have won the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award. So grateful to the judges for this vote of confidence in my work. And grateful, also, to have met my brilliant fellow nominees,
@NoreenMasud
,
@michaelmagee__
and Momtaza Mehri.
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Here, again, is my attempt in the
@LRB
to outline the nature and scale of the damage inflicted on the UK by the Conservative Party over its 14 years in power. Don’t ever forget it.
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I hope what I've written here does some small justice to a gigantic subject. And I hope it makes you as sad, as angry, and as determined to remember as it made me. On AIDS:
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It’s an honour to be on the
@GrantaMag
2023 Best of Young British Novelists list. Nice to be able to tell the secret at last — and discover my fellow authors. I’m grateful to
@_alicezoo
for immortalising my room on a particularly chaotic day.
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Since 2010, I have been furious with the Conservative Party. Here I have attempted to itemise — very far from exhaustively — the enormous damage they have inflicted. Forget Sunak’s haplessness. Remember the 14 years of needless but deliberate social harm.
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I was so infuriated by the news that George Osborne and Ed Balls were doing a podcast together, and by this picture, that I wrote a piece for the
@LRB
about it. I threw in Rory Stewart, Alastair Campbell and Keir Starmer for good measure.
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I’m absolutely staggered by this phenomenal review of THE NEW LIFE by Johanna Thomas-Corr, published at the weekend in
@ST_Culture
. It’s already made my Mum cry.
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On the theory that every little helps, here's my
@LRB
essay on 14 years of Tory government, which gives some of the thousands of reasons why they deserve to lose every seat going.
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NOVEL OF THE YEAR in the Sunday Times. Wonderful to see it in print. And in such great company. I’m very grateful.
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It’s paperback publication day for THE NEW LIFE. Thank you to the amazing team at Chatto and Vintage, to everyone who has read it and said kind things, to everyone who has come to hear me talk about it, and to booksellers and bookshops. This has been the experience of my life.
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I got lots of responses to this piece from people who’d lived through the AIDS crisis; but many more from people who weren’t fully aware of its scale and horror. We need to remember. And be better.
#WorldAIDS
Day.
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In the new
@LRB
, I have a piece about Turgenev, a great writer. I hope it conveys some of the pleasure I’ve got from reading him.
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My
@LRB
piece on the crisis engulfing local government is out from behind the paywall. I hope it makes you angry:
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Here’s a clip from my speech on Sunday, after winning the South Bank Sky Arts Literature Award. My brother, Paddy, was also on the shortlist and my parents were in the room. It might make you laugh AND cry.
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Here's an argument – sweeping and I hope a bit provocative – about the place of gay men in the history of the novel, from Mansfield Park to Heartstopper. Includes an amazing story about Zola and two gay fans. And happens it's my 40th piece for the
@LRB
.
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Very honoured to have been asked to give the Prospect Cottage Lecture, which aims to uphold the spirit and values of the great Derek Jarman. I’ll be talking about ‘Some Gay Men I’ve Met in the Victorian Novel’ in Folkestone on 19 November, 6pm:
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Still treading air after winning the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award on Tuesday, and wonderful to see my interview with Johanna Thomas-Corr in the paper today. Blimey.
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When I was writing my book, I used to dream of it one day being in Gay’s The Word. Truly a great British institution. Lovely to chat with Jim and Uli.
What a pleasure to meet
@TomCrewe1
when he came in to sign copies of his superb debut novel The New Life. We're going to have fun handselling this book over the next few months. It's tremendous.
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Really thrilled that THE NEW LIFE is a finalist for
@TheOrwellPrize
for Political Fiction.
'We Must Live in the Future We Hope to Make'
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Quite the moment, to arrive in Paris, walk into the first bookshop I see, and find this . . .
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THE NEW LIFE is the Sunday Times novel of the year! Amazed, and so grateful to
@JohannaTC
for championing the book since January. What a year it’s been.
The best novels of 2023
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Today THE NEW LIFE is published in the US and Canada by
@ScribnerBooks
. For as long as I can remember I’ve wanted to write a novel, and for ten years this was the novel I was trying to write — thank you to everyone who has made it possible. I can’t wait for people to read it.
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Very chuffed to be on the longlist for the Walter Scott Prize, in such good company.
The
#WalterScottPrize
for Historical Fiction has announced its 2024 longlist, alongside news of a change of management to
@AbbotsfordScott
. Discover the twelve books longlisted for the £25,000 prize:
#histfic
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What joy to be home in the North-East and signing copies of THE NEW LIFE
@Waterstones
in Darlington, Northallerton, Middlesbrough (my birthplace, and where I was informed I have a ‘Boro face’) and Durham. Pictured with my Dad, who did the driving.
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Well this is an amazing moment. Thank you, Nicola Sturgeon.
Haven't had much time to read so far in 2023 - just as well this by Tom Crewe is a book to savour. Beautifully written historical fiction, but with a timely feel too. And shot through with a real sense of hope about the possibility of progress against the odds. Highly recommended
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Aged six, I wrote in my school exercise book that when I grew up I wanted to be an 'Author'. Took a while, but amazed and delighted that THE NEW LIFE will be published by
@ChattoBooks
@ScribnerBooks
and in 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇸🇳🇱
"Tom is an extraordinary novelist, with the ability to seduce his readers utterly – plus he has written possibly the best opening scene of all time",
@ChattoBooks
signs The New Life, a ‘magnificent’ debut from
@LRB
editor
@TomCrewe1
in two-book deal!
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Utterly delighted that THE NEW LIFE is on the Nero Book Awards Debut Fiction Shortlist. Congrats to my fellow nominees. Many thanks to the judges, and, as ever, to my publishers, to booksellers and to readers.
And the wait is finally over... We are thrilled to announce, the first ever Nero Book Awards shortlists 🤩
Find out more at:
Individual category shortlists coming soon... 🧵
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Completely thrilled to find a THE NEW LIFE window display at
@WaterstonesNW3
. Struck a brooding Batman-esque pose in the half light.
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For the FIRST TIME, my brother Paddy and I will be speaking together in public about our novels, at
@WaterstonesCovG
on 11 July. Come along to find out what happened in our childhoods to make us this way, and whether we hate each other now
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Amazingly, I’ve only just discovered that the great Edmund White reviewed THE NEW LIFE a year ago, in the Gay and Lesbian Review. It’s an honour, since every gay writer is in his debt. And as far as opening paragraphs go, this is about as good as it gets . . .
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Astonished to learn that La Vie Nouvelle/The New Life, translated by
@EPLGomez
, has won the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger. Thanks to Jean Mattern,
@AmelieDor
and everyone at
@BourgoisEditeur
. Vive la France!
Hourra!
@TomCrewe1
lauréat du Prix du premier roman étranger.
@EPLGomez
@rcwlitagency
@BourgoisEditeur
#Lavienouvelle
🎉🥳🎉
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Totally delighted to be shortlisted for the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award. Very grateful to the judges. And feeling an unexpected catharsis now I’ve got my feelings about Princess Anne into a national newspaper.
I’m so excited to reveal our shortlist for the 2024 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year award. Four brilliant debut writers: Tom Crewe, Michael Magee, Momtaza Mehri and Noreen Masud.
Read all about them here:
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This is one of the things I'm most proud to have written, and certainly the most-cited. It's nearly 7 years old, but I think the analysis holds up, on the grounds that things have only got worse – and people have noticed. Stay angry. Get out and vote.
‘What we really mean when we say that austerity has slashed the state is that it has wrecked the ability of elected local authorities to provide and administer many of the features and functions of the state as we understand them.’
—
@TomCrewe1
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I don’t think anyone spoke or wrote about the process of writing better, or more sincerely, than Martin Amis. I’m sure I’m not the only novelist who writes with a little Amis on his shoulder, saying ‘Mind that repetition. Avoid the jangle. Try harder.’
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It’s tragic that George Meredith, a writer who delighted Oscar Wilde, R.L. Stevenson and George Gissing, who pioneered techniques in the novel and influenced Joyce, Woolf, Forster and Lawrence, is now so little read. I wrote about one book in the
@LRB
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As it happens, I’ve just read three books by Mrs Oliphant in a row, taking me to twelve so far. I have no hesitation in saying that she was a genius. If you think you’ve read all the great British novelists of the 19th century and haven’t read her, then you’re kidding yourself.
Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897) was born
#OTD
, 4 April – a 🎂 🧵
“surely the most interesting and entertaining example of a woman writing about men in the 19th century”
—
@TomCrewe1
in the
@LRB
on Margaret Oliphant’s 1866 novel MISS MARJORIBANKS
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Very chuffed that
@Waterstones
have chosen THE NEW LIFE as one of their best novels of 2023.
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Delighted, and honoured, to have won an O. Henry Prize for my short story ‘The Room-Service Waiter’, selected by the 2024 editor
@amortowles
, and first published in
@GrantaMag
:
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Just pulling into Bristol, v much looking forward to meeting
@Doug_D_Stuart
and interviewing him in front of a sell-out crowd, all organised by
@StorysmithBooks
.
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Thrilled and moved to receive a finished UK copy of my novel, THE NEW LIFE. It really is a very beautiful object. Endless thanks to the designers, Stephen Parker and Kris Potter. Published on 12 January by
@ChattoBooks
. Can’t wait.
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Enormously pleased and grateful that THE NEW LIFE has made the shortlist for the Walter Scott Prize, among some great writers.
Discover the six novels going forward for the £25,000
#WalterScottPrize
for
#HistoricalFiction
. "The judging criteria - originality, innovation, ambition, durability and quality of writing - are beautifully showcased in our 2024 shortlist," judges said.
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Today is the first time I’ve been able to lay side by side the finished US and UK editions of my novel. I’m very pleased with them both, and with their cousinly relationship. THE NEW LIFE is out on 3 January from
@ScribnerBooks
and on 12 January from
@ChattoBooks
. Merry Xmas!
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Utterly delighted to learn, two days after returning from France, that La Vie Nouvelle/The New Life has been longlisted for both the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger and the Prix Femina Étranger. So grateful to my translator,
@EPLGomez
, and to the top team at
@BourgoisEditeur
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Delighted that THE NEW LIFE is on the longlist for the Polari First Book Prize.
Introducing the 2023 Polari First Book Prize longlist!
Love From The Pink Palace - Jill Nalder (
@HachetteUK
)
A Visible Man -
@Edward_Enninful
(
@penguinrandom
)
The Whale Tattoo - Jon Ransom (
@MuswellPress
)
Whatever Happened to Queer Happiness - Kevin Brazil (
@Influxpress
)
(1/3)
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I have a piece in the new
@LRB
on Chris Bryant’s book about James Pratt and John Smith, the last two men to be executed for sodomy in Britain, and more broadly, about homosexuality and the law between the 18th century and legalisation in 1967.
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Corbyn right to call for municipal socialism today. I wrote here about the decades-long war on local government and the devastating effects of austerity since 2010. Local democracy diminished in favour of the market. Carillion and Capita the result.
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I won’t lie: it feels bloody marvellous. As it does to see booksellers at
@QPBooks
and all over the UK getting behind THE NEW LIFE. And to know that so many people are starting the book or picking up copies this weekend. I am truly grateful.
Imagine writing your first novel and Colm Toibin, Kate Atkinson and Anne Enright all say they love it. Imagine!
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Imagine the PURE JOY I felt to discover this table of my book in
@WaterstonesPicc
. The stuff of dreams.
A joy to welcome
@TomCrewe1
to our shop this week to sign The New Life.
A enthralling story of two marriages, two forbidden affairs, the quest for social & sexual freedom in 19th century London, and how high a price must be paid for a new way of living.
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I’ve finally been able to listen properly to the audiobook of THE NEW LIFE, read by the brilliant Freddie Fox. He conveys perfectly the erotic intensity of the first chapter, and rises to all the drama of the novel’s big moments. Pre-order now, wherever you get your audiobooks.
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I put together a few necessarily arbitrary recommendations for reading in LGBT+ History Month, featuring I hope a few less familiar options (not pictured, my copy of Sarah Waters’s v familiar Fingersmith, which I must have pressed on a friend).
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Nikhil Krishnan has written an extraordinarily engaged and intelligent review of THE NEW LIFE in the
@NewYorker
. He explores the connections between my John Addington and his historical original, and gets to the very heart of what I was trying to do.
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Delighted and grateful that THE NEW LIFE is Blackwell’s Novel of the Month in January. Roll on 2024.
The New Life by
@TomCrewe1
is our Fiction Book of the Month!
The New Life is a beautifully crafted debut novel about forbidden desire set in Victorian England against the backdrop of the Oscar Wilde case.
Order your copy:
@vintagebooks
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I had the idea for my novel more than ten years ago. To get a fantastic review in
@guardianbooks
this morning, and this real humdinger from
@washingtonpost
in the afternoon — it’s a bloody good day, I’ll tell you that.
Happy new year in books! Here's my rave review of
@TomCrewe1
's début, "The New Life," in
@washingtonpost
. Out next Tuesday, 1/3, from
@ScribnerBooks
.
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An amazing thing, to be on the shortlist for the South Bank Sky Arts Literature Prize with the wonderful Charlotte Mendelson and my BROTHER, Paddy Crewe. Winner not yet announced, so here we are, very happy, before any potential family psychodrama begins.
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In the next few weeks and months, I'm speaking about THE NEW LIFE at
@maxminervas
in Bristol,
@Dauntbooks
in Marylebone,
@oxfordlitfest
,
@ToppingsBath
,
@watsalisbury
,
@WaterstonesMCR
,
@StratLitFest
and
@WaterstonesPicc
.
Details at . I'd love to see YOU.
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I have an essay in the new
@LRB
about Charles Lamb. Why he is great; why he is let down by the latest biography; why he was once seen as a Bad Influence; and why he is especially relevant now.
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Very chuffed to wake up to this great mention of THE NEW LIFE in
@thetimes
best books of 2023. Quite enticing, I hope.
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Today, schools and hospitals are crumbling, and Birmingham Council can't balance its budget.
In 2016, I wondered 'how long it will take for a scandal to break that reveals some "efficiencies" as culpable negligence'.
The stupidity of Tory austerity only gets more obvious
‘Britain, but especially England, has in the last six years become a darker, dirtier and more dangerous place.’
@TomCrewe1
on the strange death of municipal England – from 2016 but still unfortunately very relevant.
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I am infinitely grateful to booksellers everywhere who are getting THE NEW LIFE in front of readers. One of the best parts of publication has been getting to visit so many shops and meet so many delightful, passionate people. Much more to come, I hope.
Last week
@TomCrewe1
's brilliant 'The New Life' published and the love for it was unreal ❤️
Here's some more love for it from some wonderful Booksellers. Thank you all so much ☺️
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A thrill to see this delightfully zingy ad in
@GdnSaturday
. THE NEW LIFE is out in its beautiful paperback form and ready for the weekend.
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The Tories are out today, and so is my brother Paddy’s second novel, TRUE LOVE. To celebrate we’ll be talking together in public for the first time, on 11 July. Why not join the family fun.
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I can’t quite believe I’m on the cover of
@KirkusReviews
. Was a pleasure to be interviewed about THE NEW LIFE by
@TomBeerBooks
. US and Canada publication TOMORROW 🔥
Debut author
@TomCrewe1
appears on the cover of the Jan. 1 issue of the magazine, and he spoke to us about his gorgeous novel, THE NEW LIFE, out this week from
@ScribnerBooks
.
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Extremely pleased to be up for the Betty Trask Prize.
✨The Betty Trask Prize shortlist:
Stephen Buoro for The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa
Tom Crewe for The New Life
Rachel Dawson for Neon Roses
Rachel Connolly for Lazy City
C.E. McGill for Our Hideous Progeny
Nathan Munday for Whaling
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Here’s a piece about my youthful obsession with pro wrestling. Not every day you get to write about The Undertaker in the
@LRB
:
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Here’s
@chrismullinexmp
being very good on the ‘Corbyn’s a Commie’ smears and the bleak tradition they belong to.
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Why not spend some of Saturday with my
@LRB
piece about James Pratt and John Smith, the last men executed for sodomy in Britain, which considers where their case fits in the history of homosexuality and the law between c.1780 and legalisation in 1967.
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My story for the
@Granta
Best of Young British Novelists issue is now free to read. It’s called ‘The Room-Service Waiter’ and imagines the subject of this portrait being reunited with it 40 years on. I’m proud of it and I hope you like it.
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I wrote about a bad priest, Jacob Rees-Mogg, and some other imposters:
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Over the next few weeks I'll be speaking about THE NEW LIFE in Brixton, Balham, Faversham, Bristol and Oxford, with lots more to come. If you're interested, you can get more information on all of these events at my website:
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Here is my short story, written for the
@GrantaMag
Best of Young British Novelists issue. It’s called ‘The Room-Service Waiter’ and imagines the subject of this 👇 portrait by Chaïm Soutine being reunited with it forty years on:
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In LGBT+ History Month, here’s a plea in
@GdnSaturday
for seeing beyond the great, grand and tragic figure of Oscar Wilde. It’s interesting what you find.
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Leaving aside the bizarrely inappropriate cover: this is a truly brilliant novel. Why is it not more read? Why is Meredith not more read? He is one of the greatest.
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You have till the end of tomorrow to apply for the
@LRB
editorial internship. It changed my life, and might change yours:
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A total pleasure to appear on
@BacklistedPod
, which I've been listening to for well over half a decade, and to discuss a great and important novel: Esther Waters by George Moore, who is a great and important and hugely under-appreciated writer.
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Last call for the Crewe Brothers, Tom and Paddy, speaking at Waterstones Covent Garden tomorrow, 11 July: . First public appearance since infamous family showdown at the 2023 South Bank Awards, footage below. Whole cast reunited.
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Completely surprised this morning to find that THE NEW LIFE is
@guardian
Book of the Day. The novel’s first newspaper review — and an extremely good one by Lara Feigel. I’m grateful. Available for pre-order now!
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I have a piece in the new
@LRB
about Walter Sickert, a magnificent and magnificently articulate painter whose career lasted from the 1880s to the 1940s. And no, he was not Jack the Ripper. This theory is so stupid I do not mention it in the piece:
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Coming up, I'm talking at
@edbookfest
with Alice Winn, at
@QPBookfest
representing three gens of
@GrantaMag
BOYB Novelists with Andrew O'Hagan and Adam Thirlwell, at the new
@queermindsfest
at
@thervt
, at
@HastingsbookFes
, at
@HenleyLitFest
, and
@clivedenlitfest
. Don't be shy.
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Here is my conversation with Amia Srinivasan, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford and author of THE RIGHT TO SEX, about some of the issues thrown up by my novel, THE NEW LIFE. I loved doing it and I hope it makes for interesting reading.
The two writers come together for a conversation about Crewe’s debut novel The New Life. Set in 1890s London, it tells the story of two men collaborating on a book in defence of “sexual inverts” – or what we now call gay people
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I wrote about the imminent UK PORN BAN no one got told anything about:
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No-one painted London in the sunshine better than Pissarro. I wrote about French artists in Victorian Britain for the new
@LRB
:
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I had a great time at the
@LRBbookshop
last night. And I stand by it: there aren’t enough wet dreams in literature.
"There aren't enough wet dreams in literature."
@TomCrewe1
opens our 2023 events programme with a bang, reading from and discussing THE NEW LIFE with Paul Mendez at the shop tonight
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I spent some time in the Corbyn camp, and wrote about it for the new
@LRB
. May not please everyone.
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So pleased to reveal the UK cover of my novel, THE NEW LIFE. It is about two men in complicated marriages and the book they dare to write in 1890s Britain; about sex and freedom, and the struggle to create a better future in the present.
Pre-order here:
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Very pleased to be nominated for a South Bank Sky Arts Award in the Literature category, alongside Charlotte Mendelson and . . . my brother Paddy. It’s going to be a nail-biter.
We are thrilled to announce that the brilliant
#TheNewLife
by
@TomCrewe1
is nominated for the
@SouthBankAwards
2023!
Congratulations to Tom and all the nominees 💫
@vintagebooks
@rcwlitagency
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Thrilled to be interviewing Douglas Stuart at a big
@StorysmithBooks
event in Bristol on 18 April. Formulating questions AS I TYPE. Please do come along.
🚨NEW EVENT🚨
Shocked, delighted, energised and ecstatic to announce DOUGLAS STUART will be joining us in Bristol in April!
Tickets on sale NOW:
@picadorbooks
@Doug_D_Stuart
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I loved creating this special edition for indie bookshops: there’s a selection of historical sources at the back, which hopefully give a nice insight into the real-life stories behind the fiction. And I got through some great 1980s Desert Island Discs while signing. Go get ’em.
"We must live in the future we hope to make.”
Happy publication week to
@TomCrewe1
and debut novel
#TheNewLife
! We've got a limited number of signed indie bookshop editions on the bookshelves...
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I guess it's time to share this again, again, again. Still true, four years and a pandemic later: 'The creation of the British state was a municipal project, and the state is now being unmade by the collapse of that project.' On Municipal England:
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Excited and very honoured to be speaking about THE NEW LIFE with the mighty Colm Tóibín, Master and magician, on Monday at 6.30pm EST. It’s virtual and FREE, so you’ve no excuse not to sign up. Colm is a brilliant speaker and I’ll do my level best to rise to the occasion.
Join
@greenlightbklyn
virtually on Monday, January 16th for a (free) conversation between
#TheNewLife
() author
@TomCrewe1
and
#ColmT
óibin! Register here:
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Here I am, ahead of my event at
@HenleyLitFest
tomorrow, having a go at poor old Oscar Wilde again, and speaking up for the erections of 1894.
Did Oscar Wilde set back the cause of gay rights? Author Tom Crewe says he is no hero
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I wrote about colourised historical photographs and Facebook and why it’s increasingly difficult to escape the past. I also, for educational purposes, allowed a picture of myself aged 17 to be printed in the
@LRB
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I wasn’t actually recommending books that challenge social norms, though perhaps that happened by accident. Also feat. Trollope, Colette, Muriel Spark, Ivy Compton-Burnett.
Looking for a new book that challenges societal norms? 📚Crack open one of Tom Crewe's recommended novels including works by Margaret Oliphant and Patrick White.
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Not many tickets left for tomorrow night's
@GrantaMag
Best of Young British Novelists event at the
@southbankcentre
. Featuring Isabella Hammad, Derek Owusu and Yours Truly, chaired by
@AlexClark3
. Please come along. It'll be good.
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A reminder that, to celebrate the arrival of his second novel TRUE LOVE, my brother Paddy and I will be talking about fiction and — I guess — family at
@WaterstonesCovG
on 11 July. Pretty much both still looking as below. Details:
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