Aged around 10 years old, Tom is the younger of the two children of Frank and Rita Gates, and the younger brother of Delia.

On 24th October, Sky will air a Halloween special of "The Brilliant World of Tom Gates" from TG Entertainment. Keen fans who want to ensure they have the full T om Gates book collection may also want to know that a 96-page World Book Day special was released in 2013.The Wrinklies are keen on giving presents AND they're planning a family outing which is going to be EPIC!

Dreams of rock stardom take the edge off embarrassing family activities in Tom’s fourth “homework diary” crammed with doodles and stories. This book is VERY important because it contains BISCUITS, BANDS and all my (doodled) plans (top secret of course) to make us global superstars and DogZombies the BEST band in the world.The top-of-the-class, extra special 20th book from multi-million copy selling author and illustrator Liz Pic. Tom remembers other fun times he’s had, like metal detecting with Uncle Kevin and the cousins or inventing a new secret language with Derek. I just assume it’s always going to end, and so every book, I’m really trying hard to put new things in it. It does not help that his dad is training for the parents’ race on that day — and plans to wear bizarre cycling shorts!