Jack Middleton, once 'England's most promising young composer' now lives comfortably in Hampstead with his wife Milly, an heiress. Jack is no longer young nor has he ever quite fulfilled his remarkable promise. And then he visits Estonia, in search of inspiration, and falls for a young waitress, Kaja. Six childless years on and Jack and Milly's marriage shows the strain, but they battle on better than most - until the past returns with a vengeance...

An idyllic, old farmhouse in France is the background to a gripping story suffused with tension.
Two Oxford historians, Johnny and Sarah Thomson, take a sabbatical with their three small and lively girls in a remote and beautiful old farmhouse in the hills of Languedoc. But the farmhouse has its own histories, rather more fraught and alive than those the Thomsons are used to dealing with on the page.
As the illusion of Eden retreats, the Thomsons start to feel the vulnerability of being aliens in this unpredictable wildness. While Sarah frets about the danger of the swimming pool and...

Adam Thorpe's ninth novel is both a thrilling re-examination of myth and a moving reminder of how human innocence and frailty fix and harden into history.

An exhilarating new novel following Bob Windrush: a divorced, middle-aged commercial pilot, running from his past after turning down a suspicious job in the Middle East.
Bob Windrush used to fly passengers, then worked for years as a 'freight dog', flying consignments of goods and sometimes people to all the corners of the world -- including bush-strips in war zones: 'real flying, ' as he called it. Until, one day, he walked away from a deal that didn't smell right -- something a freight dog should never do.
Now working as a private pilot for an Emirate prince in Dubai, he finds...

A collection of poems that takes us on a journey through states of gain and loss, alienation and belonging. It explores our chances, records our traces - in the marks on skin, home movies, stone walls, the pressure of our blood, or the clearing of a dying father's study: foraging backwards until something is revealed, however tentative.

Silbury Hill, the largest pre-historic mound in Europe, like Stonehenge, has inspired and perplexed people for generations. Adam Thorpe, author of the highly influential book Ulverton, reflects on what Silbury Hill has meant to him throughout his life.