OPEN UP

Six years in the making, I’m delighted that my new suites of stories, Open Up, is now out in the world. What’s it about? Interviews about the book here. And here’s my recording of ‘Wales’, the opening story, for BBC Radio 4.

If you’d like to buy Open Up, here are some ordering options.

Meanwhile, here is:

—a list of some 50 Books that opened doors for me in the years I was writing the stories

—a Spotify playlist for Open Up

If you don’t use Spotify, here’s the playlist on YouTube.

‘This brilliant, funny, unsettling book is a work of deep psychological realism and a philosophical inquiry at the same time. Thomas Morris is a master of the contemporary short story, and the stories in this collection are his best yet.’ 

—Sally Rooney

‘The stories in Open Up are funny, sad, complex, unexpected, and worthy of multiple readings. They’re also bloody brilliant.’ 

—Jon McGregor

‘Such a fierce and tender suite of stories – young boys & lost young men, the psychic effects of poverty and deprived childhoods, and the struggle to love well. Plus a standout story about seahorses. Welsh wizardry from Thomas Morris.’

—Lucy Caldwell

‘With precision, wry humour and a generous heart, Morris visits life's agonies and ecstasies. This diverse and surprising collection is bound together by a strangely prelapsarian hopefulness from which, at any moment, we might fall.’ 

—Nathan Filer

‘Thomas Morris is incredibly gifted... Open Up not only confirms his unique skill and sensitivity as a writer, these stories positively redefine masculism, taking apart identity constructions, exploring conflicted territories, and offering up nuanced, progressive perspectives. It’s so heartening to read his work.’

—Sarah Hall

‘The stories in Thomas Morris’s Open Up are capable of both astounding imaginative flourishes and evoking the quietest moments of everyday intimacy with heartbreaking attentiveness. These stories are always pleasurably off-kilter, as gently acerbic and sadly wise about the world as the work of George Saunders, Wendy Erskine and Etgar Keret, but written with an assuredness and poignancy that is all Morris’s own.’

— Colin Barrett