People like Tom McCarthy

Tom McCarthy (born 1969) is an English writer and artist. His debut novel, Remainder, was published in 2005 by Metronome. McCarthy has twice been nominated for the Man Booker, and was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prize by Yale University in 2013. He won a Believer Book Award for Remainder in 2008.

He has also written a critical study of Tintin called Tintin and the Secret of Literature, and published an essay collection, Typewriters, Bombs, and Jellyfish, in 2017. His most recent novel, The Making of Incarnation, was published in 2021.

Tom McCarthy was born in London in 1969 and lives in Berlin. He grew up in Greenwich, and was educated at Dulwich College (from 1978 to 1986) and later New College, Oxford, where he studied English literature. He lived in Prague, where he worked as a nude model and in an American bar; Berlin, where he worked in an Irish pub; and Amsterdam, where he worked in a restaurant kitchen and reviewed books for the local edition of Time Out magazine in the early 90s, before moving back to London. McCarthy's time in Prague forms the basis for his novel Men in Space. McCarthy has also worked as a television script editor, and co-edited Mute magazine. Prior to his success he lived and wrote in a tower block flat on the Golden Lane Estate beside the Barbican.