tgaisfordNov 61 min readSecret's out!Link to full press release: https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/cinto-press-signs-riveting-debut-novel-from-tom-gaisford
tgaisfordDec 19, 20238 min readFor DadEulogy for Robert Edmund Gaisford 4.12.1946-23.11.2023 Pass the Pigs is a game in which, instead of dice, you throw miniature rubber...
tgaisfordNov 25, 20231 min readLegacy I’ll see you in the sea, and under that fig tree in Zahara, in the faces of the people who - it’s hard to imagine - love you as much as I...
tgaisfordOct 23, 20221 min readEating gasYou could eat the lava, it was all over the floor. And gas! It tasted like porridge. We lived in a tower, when Lulu was still in mummy's...
tgaisfordMay 12, 20220 min readOur little Yasmin (aka 'Minnie'), painted by my sister, Moll: https://www.mollygaisford.com/portraits-1
tgaisfordMar 10, 20211 min readLinks to some of my freelance writing: https://www.independent.co.uk/author/tom-gaisford https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/tom-gaisford/ https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/eurocri...
tgaisfordMar 9, 20213 min readMy review of Brown Baby, by Nikesh ShuklaBrown Baby NIKESH SHUKLA (BLUEBIRD, 256 PP, £16.99) Tablet bookshop price £15.29 • tel 020 7799 4064 Not so long ago, the writer Nikesh...
tgaisfordDec 30, 20201 min readThe Naughty Towel It took mummy up, high into the air, and landed her in a tree. The fireman came and chased it away. The end.
tgaisfordDec 19, 20201 min readGingerellaWho? OK, doesn't matter. She danced, then went to bed. That night her bedroom ceiling opened up, revealing a tall, knotted jungle...