About the Author

Tom Hanks has been an actor, screenwriter, director and through Playtone, a producer. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. This is his first collection of fiction.

Reviews

Affectionate and endlessly entertaining. Hanks writes with such tenderness about human connection and the magic of the movies
*Richard Osman*

With a unique insight and a rare eye for detail, Tom Hanks delivers a stunning, emotionally satisfying tale about the art of storytelling. I never wanted the lights to come up. I could not put it down
*Graham Norton*

THE MAKING OF ANOTHER MAJOR MOTION PICTURE MASTERPIECE is its own universe, complete with a sun, a cast of circling planets, and a limitless number of stars. Its gravity pulls you in and its far reaching, multi-layered, rollicking exuberance holds you in place. I would have been happy to live inside this book forever
*Ann Patchett*

A proper literary belter
*The Times*

An extravagant, buoyant, joyfully sprawling book, bursting with affection for its characters, for the intricate lore of the movie business, and for the many ways in which human beings are one another's greatest opportunity
*Tana French*

This is a wild, ambitious and exceptionally enjoyable novel. A story about how stories happen, with a swirling kaleidoscope of characters across the best part of a century, and a real beating emotional heart. It has a lot of astute and fascinating things to say about comic books, movies, show business, America and human beings. I loved every page
*Matt Haig*

Vibrant, jazzy, witty, snazzily written, with a great sense of time and place, this novel-cum-comic book is one of those rare, unique, pieces of fiction. Loved it
*Kate Mosse*

Do you want to go on an adventure? Who doesn't? This was a joy to read in that certain kind of way that only happens when it was a joy to write. Tom Hanks is such a natural storyteller that everything feels like he's telling this story just for you, at a dinner table, and you don't want the night to end
*Fredrik Backman*

A heartfelt tribute to movies and the people who make them . . . Lovingly crafted, a wildly entertaining story beautifully told . . . You'll love this book
*Booklist*

An impressive debut
*Daily Express*

Tom Hanks' novel is smart and sharp
*The Telegraph*

A thoroughly likeable gem of a novel with hidden depths - rightly securing Hanks's place in the literary world
*Press Association*

At once a love letter to the movies and an affectionate portrait of small-town America, told with insider insight and considerable charm
*Mail on Sunday*

An impressive debut
*Daily Mirror*