Scarlett Thomas

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Scarlett Thomas is an English author, born in 1972. She went to a variety of schools, including a state junior school in Barking and a boarding school for eighteen months. During her teenage years she was involved in demonstrations against the Poll Tax, nuclear weapons and the first Gulf War. She studied for her A levels at Chelmsford College and achieved a First in a degree in Cultural Studies at the University of East London .

Thomas was one of the authors to feature in the New Puritans anthology of 2002.

She also writes for the Literary Review and the Independent on Sunday.

Her first three novels feature Lily Pascale, an English literature lecturer who solves murder mysteries. Each of the succeeding novels is independent of the others.

She is this year (2008) joining the Edinburgh International Film Festival jury, along with Director Iain Softley and presided over by actor Danny Huston[1]

[edit] Novels

• Dead Clever (1998)
• In Your Face (1999)
• Seaside (1999)
• Bright Young Things (2001)
• Going Out (2002)
• PopCo (2004)
• The End of Mr. Y (2006).

[edit] Short Stories

• Brother and Sister and Foot - Curly Tales series, on Radio 4, August 2005
• Interlude - Product Magazine, Winter 04-05
• The Whole Country - Zembla Magazine, Summer 2004
• Why My Grandmother Learned to Play the Flute - Curly Tales series, on Radio 4, November 2003
• The Old School Museum - Big Night Out, HarperCollins, 2002
• Debbie’s Dreams - The Stealth Corporation magazine, 2002
• Goldfish - Butterfly Magazine, Issue 5, 2000
• Mind Control - All Hail the New Puritans 4th Estate, 2000

[edit] External links

• Official site currently broken
• 2005 interview in 3am magazine
• 2007 Audio Interview in The Bat Segundo Show #117
• Book Review of The End of Mr. Y in The Independent
• Book Review of The End of Mr. Y in the Dawn Newspaper
• Book Reviews of PopCo
• The Author and The Text, a lecture given by Scarlett Thomas at the University of Kent