Tom McCarthy was born in 1969 and grew up in London. His creation, in 1999, of the International Necronautical Society (INS), a 'semi-fictitious organisation' that combines literature, art and philosophy, has led to publications, installations and exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world, from Tate Britain and the ICA in London to Moderna Museet in Stockholm and The Drawing Center in New York. Tom regularly writes on literature and art for publications including The New York Times, The London Review of Books and Artforum.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER <br>A Financial Times Best Book<br>Shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards - Waterstone's UK Author of the Year <br> Gorgeous and fearsome. . . . Fascinating, uncanny, sometimes hilarious, pageantry. <br> --The Globe and Mail <br> Captivating [and] . . . deftly developed. . . . Absolutely extraordinary. . . . It leaves us reeling . . and armed with better questions than we came in with. <br> --National Post<br> <br> A narrative of energy, invention and intelligence... A novel for our times: refreshingly different, intellectually acute and strikingly enjoyable. <br>-- Telegraph <br> The delights of C arise from its imaginative energy and bursts of mesmerising lyrical prose. <br>-- New Statesman <br> Unquestionably brilliant... a genuinely exciting and spookily beautiful book, a new kind of joy. <br>--Neel Mukherjee, The Times <br> C is clever, confident, coy - and cryptic. <br>-- The Wall Street Journal <br> Tom McCarthy has w