Adam Foulds
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 Sequence where 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...
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on real events, The Quickening Maze won over UK critics and readers alike with its rapturous prose and vivid exploration of poetry and madness. In 1837, after years of struggling with alcoholism and depression, the great nature poet John Clare finds himself in High Beach-a mental institution located in Epping Forest on the outskirts of London. It is not long before another famed writer, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and grows entwined...
3) The broken word: an epic poem of the British Empire in Kenya, and the Mau Mau uprising against it
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Offers a lyrical poem about Tom, a young man who gets caught up in the violent 1950s Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya protesting the British colonial control of that country.