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Eight short stories, each from a different contributor, inspired by English myths and legends. Features Sarah Hall, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Adam Thorpe, Edward Carey, Sarah Moss, Alison Macleod, Paul Kingsnorth and Fiona Mozley.

The history, landscape and personalities encountered throughout rural France are reported on following the author's quarter century as an English transplant to the Cévennes, addressed directly here having long inspired Thorpe's literary output.

Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992 and he has published two books of stories and ten further novels, most recently Missing Fay (2017). Words from the Wall is his seventh poetry collection.

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A cast of brilliant eccentrics are bound together by the search for a missing girl, with multiple voices orchestrated expertly by the critically acclaimed "Ulverton" author.

The history, landscape and personalities encountered throughout rural France are reported on following the author's quarter century as an English transplant to the Cévennes, addressed directly here having long inspired Thorpe's literary output.

Whether walking an abandoned road or considering a friend's suicide, his poems remind us of our abdications, of our collapsed relationships with nature, with history, with ourselves. There are, however, all the vestiges of connective tissue - memories and mementoes, sudden, miraculous leaps of beauty.

Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992, and he has published two books of stories, six poetry collections, and nine further novels, most recently Flight (2012). www.adamthorpe.net

Adam Thorpe's fourth collection continues his engagement with history: the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past, nourishing and illuminating our present. Here are traces left of presence: Indian scratchings on rock, the nail-marks of destroyed frescoes, spoken fragments of war memories - petroglyphs that function as both memorials and re-awakenings, traceable with the finger of the imagination. And here, too, are im...

In his first collection of short stories, poet and novelist Thorpe explores the lives of his characters through the work that they do. The first-person confessionals include a Ghanaian immigrant with an identity crisis, a bin-man uncovering spooky filth, and a death caused by Verlaine's cigar butt.

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.

With the attentive care of an archaeologist he uncovers and examines fragments - from a personal history or the historic past - and rebuilds the narrative: a fossil in Hitler's stadium, a wedding photograph, marks on the wall where an eighteenth-century priest was shot.

Drawing on the mystery thriller traditions of Buchan and Wilkie Collins, this novel is steeped in a past where rural England and colonial Africa collide. It centres on the character of Hugh Arkwright, who had a remote childhood in the Central African bush.

Paperback edition of the latest novel from the author and poet, which follows the life of a middle-aged commercial pilot who turns down a suspicious job in the Middle East. 'Adam Thorpe is brilliant.' "Daily Telegraph

Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992, and he has published two books of stories, six poetry collections, and nine further novels, most recently Flight (2012). www.adamthorpe.net

Acclaimed poet and novelist Adam Thorpe revisits the landscape of his classic book Ulverton to explore the enduring mystery of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, which has inspired and perplexed people for generations. Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 (August 2014) Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2015

Two Cambridge academics, the historians Nick and Sarah Mallinson, take a sabbatical with their three small and lively girls in a remote Languedoc farmhouse. But the farmhouse contains its own histories, far darker and murkier than the Mallinsons are used to dealing with.

From an abandoned rowing boat in Estonia full of wild flowers to a swimming pool in the Congo full of drowned insects, Adam Thorpe's new collection takes us on a wide-ranging journey through states of gain and loss, alienation and belonging. In the title poem, the poet disturbs a flock of geese by his mere presence, and one goose takes the wrong direction, away from the flock, as a 'voluntary exile'. A bid for freedom, or a mistake? These poem...

Twenty years after the publication of his classic novel, "Ulverton", the acclaimed poet revisits the landscape which inspired him. It is a memoir told in fragments and family snapshots, built layer on layer from Britain's ancient and modern past.

In a language deeply soaked in the time and by means of a beguiling story which gradually haunts its own process, Nineteen Twenty-One vividly recreates the year in which The Waste Land was written, as well as offering a bright mirror to the inner and outer complexities of our own troubled times.