The stunning debut from "one of the best British writers to emerge in the past decade." (Julian Barnes) With a voice that is at once fierce and lyrical, Adam Foulds tells the story of the Mau Mau uprising against British colonial rule in 1950s Kenya. T ...
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En 1840, John Clare, poète autrefois encensé mais désormais oublié, choisit de se faire interner dans un établissement psychiatrique pour lutter contre une forme sévère de dépression. Au même moment, Alfred Tennyson, jeune écrivain déjà célèbre, s'installe dans le village voisin et devient proche du...
« Adam Foulds est l'un des meilleurs auteurs anglais de cette dernière décennie. » Julian Barnes Will, jeune Anglais naïf et inexpérimenté, s'imagine déjà en nouveau Lawrence d'Arabie lorsqu'il est affecté en Afrique du Nord après le débarquement des Alliés en 1942. Ray, prolétaire new-yorkais d'or...
After a lifetime's struggle with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, in 1840 the nature poet John Clare is incarcerated. The asylum, in London's Epping Forest, is run on the reformist principles of occupational therapy. At the same time, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and became entan...
Set in the 1950s, The Broken Word is an extraordinary poetic sequence that animates and illuminates a dark, terrifying period in British colonial history.The combination here of language and imagery that feel utterly contemporary, and subject matter - tribal violence and subsequent retribution - tha...
From the author of the Man Booker shortlisted The Quickening Maze In the Wolf's Mouth follows the lives of four very different men, all of them navigating the chaos and horror brought about by the Second World War. Fighting for the Allies are Will Walker, an ambitious English Field Security Officer ...
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