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BIOGRAPHY

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Tom above Brombil Reservoir, 2022

Tom East's latest full-length publication, in January, 2025 is to be TOMMY'S WAR: JULY 1914. This is nothing less than an account of an attempt to shorten WW1 in that summer month.

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Other books still available include the controversial novel THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO St JUDAS, the unsparing non-fiction of LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE, about recovery from two brain haemorrhages, and the three volumes in the Eldritch Collections

Earlier, Tom was the writer of many works of fiction, commercial features, essays, reviews, 'other prose' and poetry. He was the author of six (print) books. 

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He was born in London, although of a Welsh family and has lived in Wales for many years.

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Books available from January, 2025 as paperback and eBook are:

THE ANSWER IS AN EGG SANDWICH

THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT VERSE BRIGADE

THE EVE OF ST ELIGIUS

A FIFTIES’ CHILDHOOD

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST JUDAS

THE GREENLAND PARTY

THE KA OF STEPHEN CHARLES

LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE

THE LOWELL LETTERS

LYRICS, POLEMICS AND POETICS

SCENES FROM SEASONS

TOMMY’S WAR: JULY 1914

WHY WRITE HAIKU?

WISH MAN’S WOOD

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The four BENYBOOKS are for the moment available free or at a reduced price in eBook form only,

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