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Couple of lovely local pieces on the book , etc
https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/news-ge/the-guernsey-based-novelist-on-how-singing-led-him-on-the-path-to-fiction/...
May 8, 20251 min read


'It was only when I got near to the end that I appreciated what a good book this is, and indeed one that deserves to be read again.'
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/reviews/allegory-of-our-age/5123154.article
May 8, 20251 min read


Profile by Catherine Baksi in The Times
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/tom-gaisford-writing-novel-was-alternative-form-of-advocacy-sks96wxws
May 8, 20251 min read


Southwark News' piece on Sanctuary
https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/peckham/legal-thriller-set-in-peckham-to-hit-bookshelves-this-month/
Apr 23, 20251 min read


The Unlucky Ones: a nuanced take on Go Back To Where You Came From
https://open.substack.com/pub/tomgaisford/p/the-unlucky-ones-a-nuanced-take-on?r=4e6hpk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnSha...
Feb 26, 20251 min read


'This intelligent and compelling debut thriller has a corkscrewing plot that spins between a London Solicitors dealing with immigration appeals and a removal centre holding asylum seekers.'
https://www.lovereading.co.uk/book/9781917447027/isbn/Sanctuary-by-Tom-Gaisford.html
Feb 14, 20251 min read


Greatly looking fwd to attending and speaking at the Guernsey Lit Fest!
https://guernseyliteraryfestival.com/news/exciting-range-of-speakers-for-2025-literary-festival
Feb 11, 20251 min read


Cinto Press interview Part II
https://www.cintopress.co.uk/news--insights/follow-your-heart-and-write-the-book-you-want-to-write-an-interview-with-tom-gaisford-continued
Jan 22, 20251 min read


Little interview I did with Cinto Press
https://www.cintopress.co.uk/news--insights/ive-always-felt-a-pull-towards-storytelling-an-interview-with-tom-gaisford
Jan 16, 20251 min read


Secret's out!
Link to full press release: https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/cinto-press-signs-riveting-debut-novel-from-tom-gaisford
Nov 6, 20241 min read


For Dad
Eulogy for Robert Edmund Gaisford 4.12.1946-24.11.2023 Pass the Pigs is a game in which, instead of dice, you throw miniature rubber pigs; how they fall determines the score you get. It is not clear what possessed my father to take Pass the Pigs to the Himalayas. Nor do we know what possessed the locals to take my father seriously. Still, every evening, as the sun set over Fishtail Mountain, people gathered in their numbers to try their hand at this dark art. ‘Give it a
Dec 19, 20238 min read


Legacy
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...
Nov 25, 20231 min read
Eating gas
You 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...
Oct 23, 20221 min read
Links to some of my freelance writing:
https://www.independent.co.uk/author/tom-gaisford https://www.jotdown.es/2026/07/the-life-that-freedom-of-movement-gave-us/ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/tom-gaisford/ https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/eurocrisispress/2016/07/04/on-brexit-control/
Mar 10, 20211 min read
My review of Brown Baby, by Nikesh Shukla
Brown Baby NIKESH SHUKLA (BLUEBIRD, 256 PP, £16.99) Tablet bookshop price £15.29 • tel 020 7799 4064 Not so long ago, the writer Nikesh Shukla found himself appealing to the emptiness of the night, “Mum, how do I raise a brown baby?” This book is a tribute to his late mother, written for his daughter, whom he tenderly calls his Ganga – the name of the Hindu goddess represented by the Ganges River where worshippers wash away their sins and free themselves from the cycle of li
Mar 9, 20213 min read
The 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.
Dec 30, 20201 min read
Gingerella
Who? OK, doesn't matter. She danced, then went to bed. That night her bedroom ceiling opened up, revealing a tall, knotted jungle...
Dec 19, 20201 min read
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