Joe Thomas

Joe Thomas was born in Hackney in 1977. He is the author of the critically acclaimed São Paulo quartet — Paradise City, Gringa, Playboy, and Brazilian Psycho — and Bent, which was a Guardian Best Book of 2020 and an Irish Times pick of the best crime fiction of 2020. His novel, White Riot, the start of a trilogy set in Hackney in the 1970s and 1980s, was published by Arcadia in 2023, its sequel Red Menace appeared in 2024 and True Blue will follow. 

Joe lives in London with his partner and son, and teaches at City, University of London.