Welcome to the website of Scottish novelist and poet Tom McCulloch. Here you can find information on Tom’s novels, short stories and poetry, as well as latest news.
Sandstone Press published Tom’s latest novel in March 2018. The Accidental Recluse is a tale about brothers, lovers and all that’s lost in the longing to get what you want.
The Stillman, Tom’s 2014 debut novel, received excellent reviews. It earned Tom the accolade of Amazon Rising Star. Tom followed this up with A Private Haunting in 2016, garnering him acclaim as a ‘blistering new talent on the literary scene.’
Latest Posts
The promise of return
I am standing at the front door, clapping the NHS workers.
Last September, before such things became impossible, we took a journey, my dad and I. Up West. That directional point back to childhood. A b...
Little Pork Pie Man
I see him again. In the supermarket. Little pork pie man. Always that two-tone hat. But it’s not The Selecter or The Specials leaching out the phones. I hear rawwwk. Whitesnake, I’m sure. First time I...
Take a Knee for the Super Bowl
American football. I love the game. This seems to trouble some people, as if I’m indulging something with almost deviant undertones, like dressage, say.
The complexity and the finesse, the occul...