Tom Shone was both deputy literary editor and film critic of the Sunday Times, before becoming a writer at Talk magazine. He is the author of Blockbuster- How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer (Simon & Schuster). In the Rooms is his first novel. He lives in New York.
...entirely readable, amusing in parts and well written * Daily Mail * It is rare for an author to exhibit such bravery * The Independent on Sunday * [a] cutting comic debut novel * Sunday Times * Laugh-out-loud funny -- Toby Young