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Author · Storyteller
James Thomas
@jamesthomas
Literary Fiction writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
James Thomas writes across literary fiction and contemporary, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
A story only works when somebody has something to lose.
Books and story worlds
Stories by James Thomas
On the writing desk
Currently creating
Early draft
The Quiet Catalogue
After a long-closed municipal library in Bristol is earmarked for conversion into luxury flats, a meticulous cataloguer is hired to help clear its remaining archive and discovers a hidden set of correspondence tucked inside discarded bookplates. As she traces the letters back through the building’s former staff and borrowers, the library becomes less a place to save than a record of the compromises that emptied it in the first place.
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Draft progress
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