Thom Braun has been – in roughly alphabetical order – an academic (he has two PhDs from the University of London); an Anglican priest; a creative strategist for a global media group; a director of an innovation & ideas business; a marketing vice president for a large multinational company – and a writer of novels, non-fiction books, plays and speeches.

Books published to date include, in non-fiction:

Disraeli the Novelist (1980, George Allen & Unwin; republished by Routledge in 2016)

The Philosophy of Branding (2004, Kogan Page – and since published in ten languages)

And in fiction:

Hungerford Stairs: An Untold Tale of Charles Dickens (2023, Matador)

Holy Orders (1996, HarperCollins)

Free Spirits (1997, HarperCollins)

kingdom.com (2004, The Canterbury Press)

Thom has also edited two Classic Novels for the Penguin English Library (Disraeli’s Coningsby and Sybil), and written two plays on eighteenth-century themes (a one-man show about Jean-Jacques Rousseau, performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2008, and a humorous play for young people about King George III, performed at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds in 2010).