Tommy Kennedy IV writes, promotes, and lives for chaos and creativity. His life runs on resilience, risk, and the refusal to stay down.
Born in Warrington, raised through institutions, he broke out and hit London head-on. He swapped concrete estates for city streets, and that choice lit the fuse for everything that followed.
He grafted twelve years on building sites, laying bricks on the British Library. Years later, his own books landed on its shelves. He built it. Now he fills it.
Tommy ran bars in Thailand, threw raves that shook the walls, and ran a promotions company in Notting Hill that kept bands alive for two decades. He also lost it all—bankruptcy, homelessness, prison time abroad. But he never stopped writing. He never stopped chasing the music.
Ten books later, his stories bleed with lived truth. Nightmare in Jamaica takes you inside Thai and Jamaican prisons, where he played reggae in a jailhouse band. His Ossie Clark biography shows the eye of a researcher who digs deep. His new novel The Devil Went Down to Doah keeps his fire burning, second in the El Peculiar series.
Tommy lived the Northern Soul nights at Wigan Casino, sweated through punk basements, and raved till sunrise. He crossed paths with Howard Marks, mystics, hustlers, and outcasts who bent his journey in wild directions. In the 2000s, he clawed redemption back on Portobello Road—music, community, creativity keeping him upright.
Now he sharpens his craft at Birkbeck Uni and Chelsea Theatre. Mandasue Heller calls his work “gripping.” Chris Salewicz calls it “a life lived on the dub side.” His kids, Sophie and Tommy Jr., keep him grounded while his words keep flying.
Tommy Kennedy IV doesn’t just write stories. He lives them, bleeds them, and throws them on the page raw.
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Why bother? No weight – one device, hundreds of books.
Easy eyes – make the text huge, bright, whatever you want.
Bed-ready – read in the dark, no lamp.
No queues – download in seconds.
No bookmarks – it remembers your page.
How to start Use what you’ve already got—phone, tablet, laptop, Kindle.
Grab a free app—Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play, Kobo.
Pick a book—buy, borrow, or download free.
Tap. Swipe. Read.
Keep your paperbacks if you love them. Just try one eBook. See how quick it hooks you.
Blog: Crime. Drugs. Broken People. No Way Out. Every Friday, a new story lands. Fast. Dirty. Under 1,000 words.
No polished heroes. No clean escapes. Just sharp cuts of fiction that taste like real life.
If you’ve read Nightmare in Jamaica or Notting Hill Ponces, you know the deal: the streets chew you up, the system spits you out, and not everyone makes it back.
One story. Every Friday.
52 in a year.
Always free.
The first one’s up—raw, jagged, no mercy.
👉 Hit the Blog. Read it. Share it if it bangs. Once you’re inside, don’t expect a way out.
Tommy Kennedy IV writes, promotes, and lives for chaos and creativity. His life runs on resilience, risk, and the refusal to stay down.
Born in Warrington, raised through institutions, he broke out and hit London head-on. He swapped concrete estates for city streets, and that choice lit the fuse for everything that followed.
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