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Tom Rob Smith
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Tom Rob Smith

Tom Rob Smith was born in l979 to a Swedish mother and an English father and was brought up in London where he still lives. He graduated from Cambridge in 2001 and spent a year in Italy on a creative writing scholarship. Tom has worked as a screenwriter for the past five years, including a six-month stint in Phnom Penh storylining Cambodia's first ever soap. His first novel, CHILD 44, was longlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the inaugural Desmond Elliott Prize, and won the Crime Writers' Association's Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best adventure/thriller novel of 2008, and the American edition won Best... Read full bio

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    2. Hear Tom Rob Smith's chilling research for CHILD 44
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    3. Tom Rob Smith: The Secret Speech
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    4. Tom Rob Smith: CHILD 44
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    5. Tom Rob Smith: Tips for new writers
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    6. Tom Rob Smith: The writers who influenced CHILD 44
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    10. Tom Rob Smith: The Influences behind CHILD 44
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    11. Meet Tom Rob Smith
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News of the World, March 5, 2010
...of the Krillitanes (BBC BOOKS) Ricky Tomlinson - Reading My Arse (Sphere) Patricia Cornwell - Scarpetta (Little, Brown) Tom Rob Smith - The Secret Speech (Pocket) Eric Von Lustblader - Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Deception (Orion) James Patterson - The...
Braintree Forum, February 15, 2010
...King, narrated by John Slatter; 'Elmer Gantry” by Sinclair Lewis, narrated by Anthony Heald; and 'Child 44” by Tom Rob Smith, narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris. To see a list of more winners and nominated titles for 2009, visit our reference department....
Livemint.com, January 29, 2010
...a clever plot and plenty of blood and gore. I couldn’t wait to devour Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith, described by a The Times of London blurb as a “stylish, intelligent and gripping Cold War thriller” shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. Seventeen...
Times Online, January 15, 2010
...are women and 7 attended UEA The 17 include Tash Aw, Diana Evans, Tahmima Anam, Nikita Lalwani and Tom Rob Smith all contenders in the Costa First Novel Award since 2005. Tash Aw went on to win the category with The Harmony Silk Factory Adam Foulds,...
Times Online, January 15, 2010
...are women and 7 attended UEA The 17 include Tash Aw, Diana Evans, Tahmima Anam, Nikita Lalwani and Tom Rob Smith all contenders in the Costa First Novel Award since 2005. Tash Aw went on to win the category with The Harmony Silk Factory Adam Foulds,...
Suite101.com, December 26, 2009
...Child 44, a debut novel by Tom Rob Smith, has become an international bestseller, gathering acclaims from both Europe and the US. Readers immerse themselves into the world of the Soviet Union, from the Ukrainian peasant famine...
Guardian.co.uk, November 2, 2009
...Jaspreet Singh   Chef Curtis Sittenfeld   American Wife Paul Leslie Smith   Rainforest Tears ; a Borneo Story Tom Rob Smith   Child 44 Sasa Stanisic   How the Soldier Repairs the Gramaphone translated by Anthea Bell Garth Stein   The Art of...
Telegraph, November 2, 2009
...own past and realises that it is his soul that most needs awakening. Book – Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith Set in the Soviet Union in 1953, Leo Demidov is an officer of the Ministry of State Security who tries not to look too closely at the brutal...
Times Online, September 26, 2009
...War mission, Operation Chastise, was to destroy Ruhr dams. The Murder Exchange by Simon Kernick Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith: Stalin?s Government won?t admit that crime exists in communist Russia. Exiled war hero Leo Demidov becomes an enemy of the...
Shreveport Times, September 24, 2009
...The Stalin Epigram' by Robert Littell.'Cemetery Dance' by Douglas Prestion & Lincoln Child.'The Secret Speech' by Tom Rob Smith.'West of the Law' by Joseph A. West.'Boneman's Daughters' by Ted Dekker. CD, nonfiction'Always Looking Up' by Michael J....
Femail, September 19, 2009
... Last year Tom Rob Smith burst onto the literary scene with Child 44, the claustrophobic thriller set in Stalinist Russia, where a child killer is on the loose and one of the most...
Pride Source, August 29, 2009
...R. Zamora Linmark's sequel to 'Rolling the R's,' about young life, gay and otherwise, in Hawaii... TOM ROB SMITH'S Stalin-era Russian thriller, 'Child 44,' a novel with a substantial queer subplot, won Best First Novel earlier this year from the...
Tonight South Africa, August 20, 2009
...The Secret Speech By Tom Rob Smith Simon & Schuster R199,95 An unlikely hero, Leo Stepanovich Demidov is a Soviet cop in the late 1950s after Stalin's death. The 'secret speech' of the...
Gay.com, August 6, 2009
...There?s a sci-fi geek inside Tom Rob Smith -- the author known for his hair-raising novels, 2008?s Child 44 and its sequel, The Secret Speech -- and he?s unleashing it for a film adaptation...
Times Online, July 29, 2009
...journey from exclusively highbrow fiction to something more representative of what people actually wanted to read. Last year Tom Rob Smith?s Child 44 became the first thriller to be nominated. ?Now I think Me Cheeta proves that it?s absolutely...
Times Online, July 29, 2009
...journey from exclusively highbrow fiction to something more representative of what people actually wanted to read. Last year Tom Rob Smith?s Child 44 became the first thriller to be nominated. ?Now I think Me Cheeta proves that it?s absolutely...
Times Online, July 28, 2009
...journey from exclusively highbrow fiction to something more representative of what people actually wanted to read. Last year Tom Rob Smith?s Child 44 became the first thriller to be nominated. ?Now I think Me Cheeta proves that it?s absolutely...
411mania.com, June 27, 2009
...According to , award-winning British novelist Tom Rob Smith has been hired to write the script for Robotech, the big screen version of the popular anime/manga franchise. Smith released Child 44 in 2008, a novel about a...
Comic Book Resources, June 26, 2009
...ROBOTECH A report from Comics2Film claims that the anime/manga property has snagged award-winning novelist and UKÂ TV writer Tom Rob Smith to work on the screenplay. No release date announced. SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD Wardrobe and a grim glare,...
FilmForce, June 26, 2009
...fans have necessarily heard of before. The report comes from Comics2Film, whose sources say that award-winning British novelist Tom Rob Smith has been hired on to the project. Smith's 2008 debut novel Child 44 is about a series of child murders in Russia...
Vfxworld, June 25, 2009
... Mania.com reports that Tom Rob Smith has been hired to take another stab the live-action ROBOTECH feature. The film has been in development since 2007 with previous writers including Lawrence Kasdan and Alfred Gough...
Mania, June 23, 2009
...Award-winning Tom Rob Smith to pen live-action Robotech movie Source: Mania Comics2Film: Robotech © Mania The live-action film version of the popular anime/manga/game franchise 'Robotech' has a new writer, according to sources...
Guardian Unlimited, June 18, 2009
...as a trusted friend.' The shortlist for the adult independent booksellers' book of the year: Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks The Secret Scripture by Sebastian...
PETRONA, February 9, 2010
...Bruen) Another: The Sins of the Children  (James Brownley) The Children of Men (P D James) Child 44 (Tom Rob Smith) Brother & Sister (Joanna Trollope) The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (Alexander McCall Smith) The Water Widow (Ella Griffiths) And:...
IT'S A CRIME! (OR A MYSTERY...), February 7, 2010
...Following the success of Tom Rob Smith’s Child 44 , it’s not surprising that 2010 brings a batch of novels that appear a tad copycat.  With the cover of Eye of the Red...
The Fifty Book Challenge, February 7, 2010
...No Name – Anonymous The White Queen – Philipa Gregory The Cairo Diary – Maxim Chattam Child44 – Tom Rob Smith The Seventh Daughter – Ronnie Seagren Secret Speech – Tom Rob Smith The Da Vinci code – Dan Brown...
A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way, January 28, 2010
...Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith. Excellent tale of a Stalin-era security officer in Moscow trying to unravel a series of murders while his own loyalty to the state is under question. He comes...
PETRONA, January 22, 2010
...In February, we can look forward to Fever of the Bone by Val McDermid , The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith (guiltily, I still have Child 44 unread on my shelf), Skin and Bones by Tom Bale (a very good, exciting thriller), and The Missing by Jane Casey...
Coffeespoons, January 4, 2010
...Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson I usually base my favorites of the year not on the rating I gave them but on the memory...
Skullcrusher Mountain, January 2, 2010
...by Sandra Cisneros Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel The River Of Doubt by Candice Millard Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Nuremberg Diary by G.M. Gilbert Amateur Barbarians by Robert Cohen An Honorable German by Charles...
Too many books, January 1, 2010
...24. The Most Wanted- Jacqueline Mitchard 25. The No Spin Zone- Bill O'Reilly July 26. Child 44- Tom Rob Smith 27. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince- J. K. Rowling (reread) August 28. The Civil War in Fairfax County- Charles Mauro 29. Free-Range...
literatehousewife.com, December 22, 2009
...last minute Christmas stuff, I spent some time catching up on my reviews. * The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith I don’t know about you, but every so often I’m in the mood for a thriller.  I don’t read  them often, but there comes a...
Ask MetaFilter, December 6, 2009
...MeFites, help! Need more books to read. /book-recommendation-filterI'm currently about halfway through my to-read list, and want some book recommendations. Help me out here, MeFites!Books that I've enjoyed thoroughly:- The Historian, by Elizabeth...
PETRONA, November 19, 2009
...enjoyed but am about three behind. Moving to the "major sellers" category, we have The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith (Pocket, £7.99), his follow-up to the amazingly successful Child 44; and The Given Day by Dennis Lehane (Black Swan, £7.99), not...
Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind, October 17, 2009
...Opening Ceremonies. THE BARRY AWARD Best Novel: DRAINING LAKE by Arnaldur Indridason Best First Novel: CHILD 44 by Tom Rob Smith Best Thriller: THE DECEIVED by Brent Battles Best British Novel: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson ...
Mystery Fanfare, October 16, 2009
...the Barry Awards Best Novel: The Draining Lake , by Arnaldur Indridason (Minotaur) Best First Novel: Child 44 , by Tom Rob Smith (Grand Central) Best British Novel: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , by Stieg Larsson (MacLehose/Quercus) Best Paperback...
The Scrapping Librarian, October 5, 2009
...biggest package to arrive at my house recently was a box from Hatchett books: The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith Kill for Me by Karen Rose The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer Any Minute by Joyce Meyer Julie and Julia by Julie Powell A Summer Affair by...
Kesher Talk, September 13, 2009
...Song List for an Imaginary iPod | Home September 13, 2009 Pick to Click: "The Secret Speech" by Tom Rob Smith On Friday I finished reading "The Secret Speech" by Tom Rob Smith, his smashing sequel to the justly praised "Child 44," about a serial killer...
J. Kaye's Book Blog, August 29, 2009
...and Canada residents only •First person to post on Twitter : @J_Kaye – Send THE SECRET SPEECH by Tom Rob Smith wins! You can click the Twitter button below and it will automatically send the message. QUICKIE TWITTER AUDIO BOOK GIVEAWAY of THE...
Off the Page, August 26, 2009
...me if I play catch up here...but attention must be paid to the winners. Richard Price and Tom Rob Smith took The Strand Magazine’s Critics Awards for Best Novel and Best First Novel. The judges were book reviewers from several of the nation's top daily...
Literary Kicks, August 4, 2009
...to worrying about murdering her mother. Later, Jeffery Deaver, John Lescroat, Lisa Gardner, Jennifer McMahon, Joe Hartlaub, and Tom Rob Smith guided by session leader Carla Neggers discuss notching up the thrills with reversals and plot twists. In one...