Welcome to my website. Here you can find out more about me and my writing.  I don’t write novels to line my loft,  I think about my audience as I write and I would love to know what you think after reading my latest novel. Let me know!

vanishingCover_lrgA Kind of Vanishing
ISBN: 9780954930950
Published: 21st June 2007

A child disappears. A woman grows up harbouring a terrible secret. Her daughter wants to know the truth.

It is the summer of 1968, the day Senator Robert Kennedy is shot. Two nine-year-old girls are playing hide and seek in the ruins of a deserted village. Alice has discovered a secret…

Lesley supports The Parkinson’s Disease Society. If you are able, please do make a donation towards improving the lives of people living with this disease.

Lesley on BBC One’s IMAGINE

December 20th, 2009

Crime writer Lesley Thomson on Imagine (BBC)

Crime Writercurated by Anish Kapoor. (Click on link to screenshot)

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The People’s Book Prize

December 16th, 2009

A Kind of Vanishing has been selected for the December Short List of The People’s Book Prize given by libraries across the UK. Vote now! Click on this link and register. Then you can vote.

http://www.peoplesbookprize.com/book.php?id=249

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Lesley on Radio Reverb’s In the Mex

December 16th, 2009
Lisa Holloway and Lesley Thomson - In the Mex

Lisa Holloway and Lesley Thomson - In the Mex

Broadcast on Radio Reverb’s In The Mex, Lisa Holloway, Chair of Creative Brighton asks me and my dog about writing, my favourite  music and gets some tips about how to write.

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