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This is the website of Thomas Taylor – author, illustrator, and creator of children’s books

Here you can find out about my award-winning and best-selling (I’m obliged to say these things) Eerie-on-Sea Mysteries, about my illustration work (especially for a book called Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone), and also get in touch with questions, or enquiries about school visits and events.

If Erwin, the bookshop cat of Eerie-on-Sea, told you “a book is like a mirror – we always see ourselves inside,” and your reaction was “hey, cats can’t talk!”, then this website probably isn’t for you. To everybody else I say “Welcome!”

Read the Whole Eerie-on-Series

Cover art by George Ermos

NEW BOOK:
The Lantern and the Labyrinth

When Tom follows an eerie lantern down an impossible alleyway, he finds himself lost in the Labyrinth – a bewildering maze that protects our everyday world from the sinister dreamlands of ‘Faerie’, where imaginary creatures become real.

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Thomas Taylor The Lantern & the Labyrinth
Thomas Taylor - cover artist for Harry Potter and Philosopher’s Stone

Me and Harry Potter

Find out how I came to provide the cover art for one of the most famous books in the world, when I was only a few months out of art school.

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