Books by Adam Thorpe

ADAM THORPE was born in Paris in 1956 and brought up in India, Cameroon and southern England. His first collection of poetry, Mornings in the Baltic, was published in 1988 and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award. His first novel, Ulverton, a panoramic view of rural English history, was published to great critical acclaim in 1992 and is now considered a modern classic. He has since published nine novels, five collections of poetry and two books of short stories. He lives in France with his family and teaches at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts de Nimes and at the University of Nimes.