# Rupert Thomson: How to Make a Bomb

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Podcast: [John Sandoe Books](https://stenobird.com/podcast/john-sandoe-books-94113)
Published: 2024-08-23T10:32:32+00:00
Episode link: https://johnsandoe.podbean.com/e/rupert-thomson-on-how-to-make-a-bomb-a-novel/
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Rupert Thomson has attracted the kind of critical acclaim which would flatter any rockstar, let alone writer. He's been compared to Dickens, Kafka and Grace Jones; The Insult was chosen by David Bowie as one of his 100 favourite novels of all time; and his first novel, Dreams of Leaving - one of the earliest books to be published by Bloomsbury soon after it was established in 1986 - found fans in everyone from the drummer of Souxsie and the Banshees to the New Statesman, who said, “When someone writes as well as Thomson does, it's a wonder other people bother”. His latest book is called How to Make a Bomb (or Dartmouth Park in its American edition). It's a heady, swirling novel about a writer's psychic collapse which begins in Norway and takes him to Cadiz and Crete. There are shades of John Fowles's The Magus to it: acute, sensitive, eerie but compulsively readable. Interviewed and edited by Magnus Rena

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