Eleanor Thom - Biography Writer Eleanor Thom was born in London in 1979. She grew up amongst extended Scottish family in the Greek roads of NW6 – Achilles, Ajax, Ulysses and Agamemnon. Ellie mostly writes short stories and novels. Her debut, The Tin-Kin, will be published by Duckworth in Spring 2009. The Tin-Kin is a novel based on photos, artefacts and memories of her mother’s Travelling family. An early chapter won the £5000 New Writing Ventures Award for fiction in 2006. Ellie has always been obsessed with wordplay. Every day in school she would scrawl French and Italian verbs all over her left hand. Later she worked as a policy planner, a research assistant and a nanny. She took in a stray colour-point cat, two boggle-eye fishes, and an injured pigeon, and studied modern languages, creative writing, and the science of language. Ellie’s linguistics research, The Gaelic Gasp and it’s North Atlantic Cousins, was the first of its kind conducted in Britain. Click here to download it free from archive.org In the past ten years Ellie has lived in London, Paris and Turin. She now shares a second-floor flat in Glasgow with Chris and Gus the colour-point cat. She works part-time for a multi-cultural arts organisation and plays the fiddle in her spare time. Back to Site