'She wanted to die, and she wanted to live in Paris.'This is the story of Emma, trapped in a disa...

Madame Bovary is one of the greatest, most beguiling novels ever written.Emma Bovary is an avid r...

From the legends of King Arthur embedded in the rocky splendour of Tintagel to the folklore and m...

Eight short stories, each from a different contributor, inspired by English myths and legends. Fe...

Twenty years after the publication of his classic novel, 'Ulverton', the acclaimed poet revisits ...

Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cévennes, a wild range of m...

Celebrated as a novelist of breathtaking historical range and depth, Adam Thorpe is also an accom...

Adam Thorpe's fifth collection finds purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. Juxtapo...

Set in 1968 in the Parisian suburbs, No Telling is narrated by twelve-year-old Gilles as he appro...

Two Cambridge academics, the historians Nick and Sarah Mallinson, take a sabbatical with their th...

Mysterious disappearances, domestic cases, noiseless, bloodless snuffings-out... the law can look...

A new translation by Adam Thorpe

This powerful, fourth poetry collection from the author of Ulverton continues the poet's engageme...

From an abandoned rowing boat in Estonia full of wild flowers to a swimming pool in the Congo ful...

Immerse yourself in the stories of Ulverton, as heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime 'Sometimes y...

A NEW TRANSLATION BY ADAM THORPE'A great novel that is also an inexhaustible pleasure to read' Gu...

'An intricately crafted novel, sharp-eared, current and full of heart' Guardian, Books of the Yea...

It is the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921; dust storms in London, parched and cracking ear...