Sam Thompson (writer)

This article is about British novelist. For Irish playwright, see Sam Thompson (playwright).

Sam Thompson (born 1978) is a British novelist.

His novel Communion Town was longlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize as one of top 12 novels chosen,^[1][2][3][4] but was not shortlisted.^[5] He published a second book, Jott, in 2018.^[6][7][8]

Thompson has also written several children's novels, including Wolfstongue (2021),^[9][10][11] The Fox's Tower (2022),^[12] and The Forest Yet to Come (2025).^[13][14]