Adam Thorpe

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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    Ulverton (December 1992)
  • Latest Book:
    Missing Fay (June 2018)
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Books in Order: 13 titles

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  • Missing Fay

    A spirited, restless fourteen-year-old, Fay, goes missing from a Lincoln council estate. Is she a runaway, or a victim â€" another face on a poster gradually fading with time? The story of her last few days before she vanishes is interwoven with the ...

  • Flight

    After flying passengers, Bob Winrush then worked as a 'freight dog', flying consignments of goods, sometimes people, all over the world - including bush-strips in war zones. But he walked away from a deal that didn't smell right - something a freight...

  • Still

    '...outwardly the unfilmable script of a would-be English cineste, one Richard Arthur Thornby currently lecturing in Texas on the cinema. He airs a hypothetical movie of both his own American present and his middle-class English families past... ' Jo...

  • Is This The Way You Said?

  • Hodd

    Who was Robin Hood? Romantic legend casts him as outlaw, archer, and hero of the people, living in Sherwood Forest with Friar Tuck, Little John and Maid Marian, stealing from the rich to give to the poor - but there is no historical proof to back thi...

  • Direct Hit

  • Between Each Breath

    Jack Middleton, once 'England's most promising young composer' now lives comfortably in Hampstead with his wife Milly, an heiress. Jack is no longer young nor has he ever quite fulfilled his remarkable promise. And then he visits Estonia, in search o...

  • The Standing Pool

    Two Cambridge academics, the historians Nick and Sarah Mallinson, take a sabbatical with their three small and lively girls in a remote Languedoc farmhouse. But the farmhouse contains its own histories, far darker and murkier than the Mallinsons are ...

  • The Rules of Perspective

    On April 3, 1945, the advancing American army shells the historic town of Lohenfelde, and the Kaiser-Wilhelm museum. Within the museum's vaults, Heinrich Hoffer is hiding from the bombardment, and trying to keep a priceless Van Gogh from falling into...



  • No Telling

    Set in 1968 in the Parisian suburbs, No Telling is narrated by twelve-year-old Gilles as he approaches his Solemn Communion, puberty, and some sense of the chaos around him. His home is deeply dysfunctional: a dithering mother, a hard-drinking, wom...

  • Nineteen Twenty-One

  • Pieces of Light

    Seven when he is sent from Africa back to England to live with his eccentric uncle, Hugh Arkwright is long troubled by his mother's disappearance, and returns to his childhood home as an adult to try to find clues to the past...

  • Ulverton

    A dozen accounts, narrated by a dozen different voices, tell the story of Ulverton, a fictional village on the Wessex Downs, through its generations. Based on a bedrock of folktales, myth and oral tradition, the author builds layers of new narrative,...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Adam Thorpe has published 13 books.

Adam Thorpe does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Missing Fay, was published in June 2018.

The first book by Adam Thorpe, Ulverton, was published in December 1992.

No. Adam Thorpe does not write books in series.
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