TOM VOWLER

About me

Gender Male
Location United Kingdom
Introduction An award-winning writer living in south-west England, his short story collection, The Method, won the inaugural Scott Prize in 2010 and, in 2011, the Edge Hill Readers' Prize. Debut novel, What Lies Within, published by Headline. That Dark Remembered Day due in 2014. Lectures in Creative Writing and represented by Ed Victor. More here.
Interests Scraping away life's debris and detritus - seeing what's beneath.
Favorite Movies Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Lives of Others, Requiem for a Dream, No Country for Old Men, Fargo, Sideways, Leon, Magnolia, Memento, Cinema Paradiso, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 21 Grams, Disco Pigs, Withnail & I, Motorcycle Diaries, The Fountain, Dead Man, Oldboy, The Squid and the Whale, Dead Man's Shoes, Biutiful
Favorite Music Tindersticks, The Raconteurs, Jeff/Tim Buckley, Hothouse Flowers, Tom Waits, Levellers, The Pogues, Damien Rice, Radiohead, Van Morrison, Arcade Fire, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Gomez, Decemberists, Joni Mitchell, Pink Floyd, Kasabian, Leonard Cohen, Magic Numbers, Led Zep, Starsailor, Demon Barbers, early Manics, Turin Brakes, Neutral Milk Hotel, Black Friday
Favorite Books Ones that move/stir/shock/inspire me. Ones that don't waste my time.