Adam Foulds

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 - that seems almost Homeric, gives the narrative all the febrile energy of classical drama, re-charged and re-imagined. Tom has returned to his family''s farm in Kenya for the summer vacation between school and university when he is swept up by the events of the Mau Mau uprising. Beginning with sporadic, brutal attacks by dispossessed Kikuyu on the British now occupying their land - attacks often executed with nothing more than traditional panga knives - the conflict escalates as the terrified British stop at nothing to re-impose order, eventually driving most of the Kikuyu population into the prison camps of what has become known as ''Britain''s Gulag''.As Tom is propelled into violence and horror the poem mutates into a meditation on the inheritance of conflict, the destruction of innocence and the impossibility of afterwards saying what one has seen. Written with rigour, intelligence, and a fierce, unsparing clarity, this is profound, lyrical work with that rare confidence and thrilling originality that announce the arrival of a significant new voice.

The second novel from Adam Foulds who recently won the "Costa Award" for his poetry volume "The Broken Word". Based on real events, this is the story of nature poet John Clare, his first incarceration in the High Beach Private Asylum and his relations ...

« Adam Foulds est lun des meilleurs auteurs anglais de cette dernière décennie. » Julian BarnesWill, jeune Anglais naïf et inexpérimenté, s’imagine déjà en nouveau Lawrence d’Arabie lorsqu’il est aff

Adam Foulds, the award-winning author of The Quickening Maze, pens a stunning and terrifying vision of the damage done between a fan and a celebrity in Dream Sequenceawhere the borders between inner and outer life have been made porous in a world full of flickering screens large and small.Henry became famous starring in The Grange, a television drama beloved by mothers and wives, and whose fans speak about the characters as though they were real people . . . yet Henry dreams of escaping the small screen. An audition for a movie directed by a highly respected Spanish auteur holds the promise of a way forward. Whether holed up in his apartment eating monkish meals of rice and steamed vegetables or snorting cocaine at desert parties in Doha, Henryas awareness of his own image, of his relative place in the world, is acute and constant. But Henry has alsoaunwittinglyabecome an important part of the life of recently divorced Kristin. He appears repeatedly on the television in her beautiful, empty Philadelphia house, and her social media feeds bring news of his London home, his family. What Kristin wants is simply to get as close to him in real life as she has in her fandom.

« Adam Foulds est lun des meilleurs auteurs anglais de cette dernière décennie. » Julian BarnesWill, jeune Anglais naïf et inexpérimenté, s’imagine déjà en nouveau Lawrence d’Arabie lorsqu’il est aff

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 entangled in the life of the asylum. This historically accurate, intensely lyrical novel, describes the asylum''s closed world and Nature''s paradise outside the walls: Clare''s dream of home, of redemption, of escape.

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,

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,

From the author of the Man Booker shortlisted The Quickening Maze, a brilliant, touching and funny story about an extraordinary friendship. A novel bursting with incident, humour, humanity and literary promiseSunday Times Saul Dawson-Smith is ten years old. He can memorise the sequence of a shuffled deck of cards in under a minute and is in training for the World Memory Championships. Howard McNamee is twenty-eight: lonely, overweight, poorly educated, and on the run from his memories of a murky Glaswegian childhood. As Howard navigates a bewildering new life in London - including accidentally acquiring a Russian fiancee - he is taken under the wing of Sauls parents, and forms an unlikely friendship with the solitary boy. But as pressure mounts before the Championship, Howard realises he must act to save his small friend from a life of unbearable expectation. And so, he and Saul head out on the strangest road trip of all time - one that will turn both their lives upside down.

Basado en hechos reales ocurridos en Epping Forest, en las afueras de Londres, alrededor de 1840, El laberinto de los estímulos se centra en la primera encarcelación del gran poeta de la naturaleza John Clare. Despues de años luchando contra el alcohol y la depresion, Clare se encuentra en el manicomio High Beach. Al mismo tiempo, otro poeta, el joven Alfred Tennyson, se enreda en la vida y los esquemas catastroficos del propietario del manicomio, el peculiar y carismatico Dr. Matthew Allen. Para John Clare, un hombre que crecio sumido en las libertades y las exaltaciones de la naturaleza, que penso que ''el borde del mundo quedaba a un dia de camino'', una puerta cerrada es una especie de muerte. Esta novela intensamente lirica describe su caida vertiginosa, a traves de episodios alucinatorios de locura y disolucion de la identidad, hacia su locura final. Historicamente preciso, pero brillantemente imaginado, el mundo cerrado de High Beach y sus varios reclusos, el medico, su hija solitaria enamorada de Tennyson, el personal brutal y el propio John Clare, cobran vida vividamente. Fuera de las paredes estan la naturaleza y el paraiso de Clare: los pajaros y los animales, los gitanos que viven en el bosque; su sueño de hogar, de redencion, de escape. Extasiado pero preciso, exquisitamente escrito, rico en caracter y detalles, este es un libro notable y profundamente conmovedor: una novela visionaria que contiene todo un mundo.Basado en hechos reales ocurridos en Epping Forest, en las afueras de Londres, alrededor de 1840, El laberinto de los estímulos se centra en la primera encarcelación del gran poeta de la naturaleza John Clare. Despues de años luchando contra el alcohol y la depresion, Clare se encuentra en el manicomio High Beach. Al mismo tiempo, otro poeta, el joven Alfred Tennyson, se enreda en la vida y los esquemas catastroficos del propietario del manicomio, el peculiar y carismatico Dr. Matthew Allen. Para John Clare, un hombre que crecio sumido en las libertades y las exaltaciones de la naturaleza, que penso que ''el borde del mundo quedaba a un dia de camino'', una puerta cerrada es una especie de muerte. Esta novela intensamente lirica describe su caida vertiginosa, a traves de episodios alucinatorios de locura y disolucion de la identidad, hacia su locura final. Historicamente preciso, pero brillantemente imaginado, el mundo cerrado de High Beach y sus varios reclusos, el medico, su hija solitaria enamorada de Tennyson, el personal brutal y el propio John Clare, cobran vida vividamente. Fuera de las paredes estan la naturaleza y el paraiso de Clare: los pajaros y los animales, los gitanos que viven en el bosque; su sueño de hogar, de redencion, de escape. Extasiado pero preciso, exquisitamente escrito, rico en caracter y detalles, este es un libro notable y profundamente conmovedor: una novela visionaria que contiene todo un mundo.

En la boca del lobo es una novela sobre la guerra y la mafia, la inocencia y la corrupción, y la historia como acumulación de lo irremediable. Ambientada principalmente en Sicilia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, relata el intento de reconstruccion de un pais despues de una violenta contienda a traves de la mirada de varios personajes. Will Walker, oficial ingles de Seguridad sobre el Terreno, lleva a cabo una tentativa de dominio del gran juego de la inteligencia y la intervencion militares. Ray Marfione, soldado de infanteria italoamericano, experimenta el devastador trauma psicologico de la batalla hasta que poco a poco, desde su escondite y con la ayuda de una princesa siciliana, emprende el largo camino de retorno a la vida. Ciro Albanese es un mafioso que ha disfrutado de un prolongado y fructifero exilio en Nueva York durante los años del fascismo italiano. Regresa para recuperar su vida anterior, incluida la esposa que desde hace mucho lo da por muerto. Junto a algunos amigos liberados de prision y con la ayuda inconsciente de los aliados, trabaja por el restablecimiento del control de la mafia en Sicilia. Escrita en capitulos cortos de una intensidad lirica extraordinaria, En la boca del lobo confronta los pequeños detalles brillantes de la experiencia individual con unas fuerzas historicas de contundente enormidad. Es testigo de los esfuerzos de los personajes por encontrar algun significado en todo ello, por contarse a si mismos historias que tengan sentido. Los numerosos relatos se entrelazan y se separan a lo largo de una novela que registra, con toda la brutalidad posible, los acontecimientos de dichas vidas sin juzgar su significado o su valor.En la boca del lobo es una novela sobre la guerra y la mafia, la inocencia y la corrupción, y la historia como acumulación de lo irremediable. Ambientada principalmente en Sicilia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, relata el intento de reconstruccion de un pais despues de una violenta contienda a traves de la mirada de varios personajes. Will Walker, oficial ingles de Seguridad sobre el Terreno, lleva a cabo una tentativa de dominio del gran juego de la inteligencia y la intervencion militares. Ray Marfione, soldado de infanteria italoamericano, experimenta el devastador trauma psicologico de la batalla hasta que poco a poco, desde su escondite y con la ayuda de una princesa siciliana, emprende el largo camino de retorno a la vida. Ciro Albanese es un mafioso que ha disfrutado de un prolongado y fructifero exilio en Nueva York durante los años del fascismo italiano. Regresa para recuperar su vida anterior, incluida la esposa que desde hace mucho lo da por muerto. Junto a algunos amigos liberados de prision y con la ayuda inconsciente de los aliados, trabaja por el restablecimiento del control de la mafia en Sicilia. Escrita en capitulos cortos de una intensidad lirica extraordinaria, En la boca del lobo confronta los pequeños detalles brillantes de la experiencia individual con unas fuerzas historicas de contundente enormidad. Es testigo de los esfuerzos de los personajes por encontrar algun significado en todo ello, por contarse a si mismos historias que tengan sentido. Los numerosos relatos se entrelazan y se separan a lo largo de una novela que registra, con toda la brutalidad posible, los acontecimientos de dichas vidas sin juzgar su significado o su valor.

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 - that seems almost Homeric, gives the narrative all the febrile energy of classical drama, re-charged and re-imagined. Tom has returned to his familys farm in Kenya for the summer vacation between school and university when he is swept up by the events of the Mau Mau uprising. Beginning with sporadic, brutal attacks by dispossessed Kikuyu on the British now occupying their land - attacks often executed with nothing more than traditional panga knives - the conflict escalates as the terrified British stop at nothing to re-impose order, eventually driving most of the Kikuyu population into the prison camps of what has become known as Britains Gulag. As Tom is propelled into violence and horror the poem mutates into a meditation on the inheritance of conflict, the destruction of innocence and the impossibility of afterwards saying what one has seen.Written with rigour, intelligence, and a fierce, unsparing clarity, this is profound, lyrical work with that rare confidence and thrilling originality that announce the arrival of a significant new voice.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeAfter a lifetimes struggle with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, in 1840 the nature poet John Clare is incarcerated. The asylum, in Londons Epping Forest, is run on the reformist principles of occupational therapy. At the same time, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and became entangled in the life of the asylum. This historically accurate, intensely lyrical novel, describes the asylums closed world and Natures paradise outside the walls: Clares dream of home, of redemption, of escape.

A novel about the brutality of fame and what happens when fandom turns to obsession, from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Quickening MazeHenry Banks, a brilliant, anxiously ambitious young actor prepared to go to any length for a role, is finally on the brink of achieving serious celebrity. However, Henry has unwittingly become an important part of the life of recently-divorced Kristin. Sitting in her beautiful, empty Philadelphia home, Kristins obsession with Henry grows and she becomes convinced they are destined to be together. Flying to London she resolves to bring their relationship to fruition no matter what the costThis mordantly clever story about fame, fantasy and narcissism is deliciously funny Foulds is a very fine writer Observer

From the author of the Man Booker shortlisted The Quickening MazeIn the Wolfs 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 and Ray Marfione, a wide-eyed Italian-American infantryman who dreams of home and the movies. Meanwhile in Sicily, Angilu, a young shepherd caught up in corruption and Ciro Albanese, a sinister Mafioso, are fighting their own battles with devastating consequences.