Tom Kane is an English author, independent publisher, and founder of Brittle Media, a growing digital imprint focused on immersive fiction across historical thrillers, noir/crime, speculative science fiction, horror, and dark psychological suspense.
Best known for The Brittle Saga and the ongoing WWII espionage epic The Midnight Series, Tom writes stories where ordinary people are forced into extraordinary circumstances, often against the backdrop of real historical events. His fiction combines cinematic pacing, emotionally grounded characters, and meticulous research with the tension and atmosphere of classic thrillers.
Through The Midnight Series, readers follow British operative Jessie Fordham across the chaos of the Second World War, navigating espionage, betrayal, and the moral cost of survival. In The Brittle Saga, Tom reimagines the Titanic disaster as the catalyst for a sweeping story of loss, vengeance, and redemption that spans continents and generations.
Alongside his historical fiction, Tom explores darker and more speculative territory through noir mysteries, paranormal investigations, and time-bending science fiction, always with a focus on consequence, atmosphere, and human resilience.
As both author and publisher, Tom represents a new generation of independent creators who combine professional publishing standards with the flexibility and innovation of digital media. Under the Brittle Media banner, he is building an interconnected catalogue of fiction designed for discoverability, accessibility, and long-term readership growth across multiple genres and series.
His work has attracted a growing international readership, with readers across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Europe discovering his books through digital platforms and promotional campaigns.
When not writing or publishing, Tom shares insights into storytelling, publishing, history, and the creative process through his websites and social media presence.
If you enjoy atmospheric fiction filled with intrigue, moral complexity, historical depth, and characters tested by impossible choices, Tom Kane’s worlds are waiting to be explored.
Tom Kane is an English author, independent publisher, and founder of Brittle Media, a growing digital imprint focused on immersive fiction across historical thrillers, noir/crime, speculative science fiction, horror, and dark psychological suspense.
Best known for The Brittle Saga and the ongoing WWII espionage epic The Midnight Series, Tom writes stories where ordinary people are forced into extraordinary circumstances, often against the...
His wife is dying. His mistress is dying. And he can only save one.
What should be an impossible decision quickly becomes something far more disturbing. Subtle pressures. Timed conversations. Coincidences that don’t feel like coincidences at...
Once, Harve Parker was the greatest ventriloquist in the world.
Now he performs for children with his old and battered dummy, Mr. Quist. To everyone around him, it is painfully clear Harve’s career is long past its prime.
But when a friend gifts Harve a new and revamped Mr. Quist, he sees one final chance to create a new act. The perfect act.
The Brittle Saga Trilogy is a genre-crossing blend of historical fiction, romance, and psychological drama, delivered with cinematic pacing and emotional punch.
All three titles are on Amazon Kindle & Kindle Unlimited.
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What happens when a machine is asked to write about love?
Echoes from the Void is not a traditional poetry collection. It is a literary experiment at the edge of consciousness.
This is a FREE eBook of poems where author Tom Kane began a conversation with an artificial intelligence language model and asked it to explore longing, hope, absence and...
Before the Brittle Sea is a historical prequel set in the years before disaster reshaped the modern world.
In the shipyards of New York, Liverpool, and Belfast, a young man learns how power hides in ledgers, signatures, and silence. William Harker believes survival means knowing when to look away, when to comply, and when to take what is offered,...
Before the war began, danger had already found her.
Europe stands on the edge of war. Jessie Fordham, recently graduated from Cambridge and carrying more questions than certainty, travels into a continent already shifting beneath her feet. The newspapers speak of diplomacy and hope, yet on the streets and people's front parlours a different mood...
Walking Away from Midnight
I really enjoyed this book. You get to know the characters as well as what it was like for civilians. I highly recommend this book, and I have already started book 2.
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Nancy
Midnight's Secret
I somehow have ended up reading them in the wrong order but nevertheless this is a very well researched book. The level of detail of the British war effort in WWII is phenomenal and adds to the enjoyment and veracity of the story as Jesse tries to find the mole in the British SIS - she is tasked by Churchill himself. The twists and turns of the hunt for the mole then the twisting of plot as Jesse is forced to run as she is being accused of treason…………. the past story of her family life and why she is staunch British patriot and yet can pass a French young lady are fascinating too.
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LindaIR
Midnight's Child
The first book in the series, Walking Away From Midnight was impossible to put down, and set the scene for this book. In France 1940, with the Germans advancing, Jessie Fordham led her siblings and various adults to the beach at Dunkirk. After a massive shock, that changed her whole previous world, her courageous, valiant feat is recognised by Winston Churchill and she finds herself training for the newly formed SOE - Special Operations Executive. Her extremely dangerous activities in France are not "same old, same old" - I couldn't stop turning the pages until I'd finished. The 3rd instalment is out now - and I'm ready for it!
There are moments in life when a man must stand and defend his home.
The Battle of Britain.
Rorke's Drift.
The Alamo.
And now, apparently, my house in Cyprus.
The enemy?
Centipedes.
Not one or two centipedes, you understand. Not the occasional wandering specimen looking for directions to the bathroom.
Oh no. I appear to be under siege.
Every morning I wake up and make my coffee and discover another dozen of them clinging to the stone walls inside my house like tiny alien invaders preparing for an...
Every so often someone declares that independent authors are disrupting the publishing industry.
It makes for a good headline.
The only problem is that it isn’t true.
Independent authors are not new. In fact, the idea that writers should control their own publishing is older than the modern publishing industry itself. What we are witnessing today is less a revolution and more a return to tradition.
Long before global publishing conglomerates existed, authors were often deeply involved in how...
There was a time when subtlety was thrown out the window and outrageous clothing was the in thing. The 1970s was my decade, the years in which I came alive.
The 1970s didn't whisper. They shimmered.
Platform boots. Glitter. Hair that required structural engineering. Vinyl records stacked like sacred texts. And music that did not so much play as announce itself.
Artists likeDavid Bowie, T. Rex, Sweet, and the deliciously theatrical Alice Cooper understood something important.
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