Presents a collection of stories that expose the characters' deepest desires, their catastrophic fears, and their perilous frailty in the face of the responsibilities they carry.
Presents a collection of stories that expose the characters' deepest desires, their catastrophic fears, and their perilous frailty in the face of the ...
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...
Jack Middleton, once 'England's most promising young composer' now lives comfortably in Hampstead with his wife Milly, an heiress. Jack is no longer y...
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...
An idyllic, old farmhouse in France is the background to a gripping story suffused with tension. Two Oxford historians, Johnny and Sarah Thomson, ...
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.
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 hist...
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...
An exhilarating new novel following Bob Windrush: a divorced, middle-aged commercial pilot, running from his past after turning down a suspicious job ...
The reissue in Vintage Classics marks the 20th anniversary of first publication. At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwell's soldiers staggers home to find his wife remarried and promptly disappears, an eighteenth century farmer carries on an affair with a maid under his wife's nose, a mother writes letters to her imprisoned son, a 1980s real estate company discover a soldier's skeleton, dated to the time of Cromwell. Told through...
The reissue in Vintage Classics marks the 20th anniversary of first publication. At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulver...
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.
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 trace...
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.
Silbury Hill, the largest pre-historic mound in Europe, like Stonehenge, has inspired and perplexed people for generations. Adam Thorpe, author of ...
Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cevennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a Cevenol river, he wrote the novel that would become the Booker Prize-nominated Ulverton, now a Vintage Classic. In more recent writing Thorpe has explored the Cevennes, drawing on the legends, history and above all the people of this part of France for his inspiration. In his charming journal, Notes from the Cevennes, Thorpe takes up these themes, writing about his surroundings, the village and his house at...
Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cevennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an anc...
