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Tom McCarthy


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Tom McCarthy was born in 1969 and lives in London.

is known for the reports, manifestos and media interventions he has made as General Secretary of the International Necronautical Society (INS), a semi-fictitious avant-garde network.

His nonfiction book Tintin and the Secret of Literature will be published by Granta Books.
 


Genres: Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
October 2026

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The Rhyl Poster
 
Novels
   Remainder (2006)
   Men in Space (2007)
   C (2010)
   Satin Island (2015)
   The Making of Incarnation (2021)
   The Rhyl Poster (2026)
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Award nominations
2015 Goldsmiths Prize (nominee) : Satin Island
2015 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Satin Island
2011 Walter Scott Prize for Best Historical Novel (nominee) : C
2011 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : C
2010 Booker Prize (shortlist) : C


Tom McCarthy recommends
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The Floating World (2026)
Ben Eastham
"Channelling Adolfo Bioy Casares, Eastham carries a vision of art's complicity with power to its endgame. If Art Basel is now globalized, then so is Minneapolis. Looping civilization back to end where it began, in Athens, he proposes that the only counterforce to fascism is love."
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I Was the President's Mistress!! (2022)
Miguel Syjuco
"An urgent book, and a necessary one: a Tyrants Destroyed for the twenty-first century."
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A Touch of Jen (2021)
Beth Morgan
"Touch of Jen is hipster noir, acerbic social parable and slasher gore-fest: as if Patricia Highsmith, Chris Kraus, and Ann Quin all crashed a Hamptons beach party, and John Carpenter dropped in with some weed."

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