TOM CREWE was born in Middlesbrough in 1989. He has a PhD in nineteenth century British history from the University of Cambridge. Since 2015, he has been an editor at the London Review of Books, to which he contributes essays on politics, art, history and fiction. 

The New Life, his first novel, will be published by Chatto & Windus and Scribner in January 2023. It will also be published in French, German, Spanish and Dutch.