I am a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction and I live in Edinburgh. The focus of much of my writing is migration, social history and remembrance.
My second novel, Connective Tissue, which is based on the life of my grandmother, a Holocaust refugee from Berlin, is out now from Taproot Press. For press features and reviews click here.
My first novel The Tin-Kin (Duckworth, 2009) was a fictionalised family story about three generations of Scottish Travellers, who move off the road and chaotically adapt to life in the town. An early chapter won the 2007 New Writing Ventures Award for Fiction, and the book went on to win the Saltire First Book of the Year Award in 2010. I was also featured on BBC TV’S The Culture Show as one of the year’s best new novelists. Click here for The Tin-Kin reviews. Click here for The Tin-Kin podcast.
‘It conjures landscape by strength of voice, and its take on history is as bracing and cleansing as the local weather.’ Ali Smith on The Tin-Kin in The Guardian, Saturday 13 June 2009
For five years I have been the Community Writer in Residence for The Edinburgh International Book Festival’s Citizen Project working with local people and organisations to record and present the stories of people who live and work here.
In 2023/2024 I am one of the Genesis Jewish Book Week’s Emerging Writers for non-fiction.
My writing life has gradually adapted to fit around a busy family. I have two children, the youngest a keen para-swimmer, which for me means lots of poolside reading!
Writer Eleanor Thom 
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