Books by Iain S. Thomas
Poetry, prose and a few experiments, written as pleasefindthis and as Iain S. Thomas.
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The Souls Trilogy
The Truth of You
Poetry About Love, Life, Joy, and Sadness
Over 200 poems and prose pieces about love, loss, joy and sadness. In paperback, ebook and audiobook.
The Secret of You
Poetry About Shadows and Light
Over 200 poems and prose pieces on love, loss, identity and shame, with ink illustrations. About private feelings, and letting go in order to heal.
The Heart of You
Poetry About Hope and Persistence
Over 200 poems on hope after despair, fear, courage and intimacy. The audiobook is read by the author.
I Wrote This For You
I Wrote This For You
The international bestseller: prose, poetry and photography in four chapters, written 2007–2011. Also available in Portuguese and Spanish.
I Wrote This For You: Just The Words
Around 400 pieces, roughly twice as many as the original, without the photography.
I Wrote This For You and Only You
The follow-up, collecting the writing and photography from 2011 to 2015.
I Wrote This For You: 2007–2017
The ten-year collector's edition, gathering most of the first decade of pleasefindthis.
Every Word You Cannot Say
Every Word You Cannot Say
Written after depression stopped me writing in 2013. For the moments when words fail and you need to feel understood.
More books
Intentional Dissonance
Ten years after the world ended, in the last city on Earth, a man tries to hold on to what is real.
How To Be Happy
Not A Self-Help Book. Seriously.
Poetry, prose and short stories about an attempt to be happy.
300 Things I Hope
A list of 300 things I hope for you, without ever having met you.
Who You Were Before You Were You
A short illustrated book about hope, and what you knew before you were born.
Where Did Everybody Go?
A book about staying at home
Written in the first weeks of lockdown, to help parents explain staying inside, how children can help, and why it would end.
What We Should Do When This Is Over
An old man and a young boy play a nightly game, imagining what they'll do when normal life returns.
I Am Incomplete Without You
Poetry prompts and questions for writing your own way through.
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[Dis]Connected
Poems & Stories
Prose, drawings and short stories about connection and disconnection, written with other poets.
Also featured in
First Encounters with AI: Writers on Writing, edited by Nina Beguš (University of Michigan Press, 2026), with an essay by Iain S. Thomas.
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