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Between Each Breath by Adam Thorpe
Category: Fiction
Once 'England's most promising young composer' - now living comfortably in Hampstead with his wife Milly, an heiress - Jack Middleton is in mid-life decline, his career in free-fall. When he visits Estonia for a three-week search for inspiration, he falls for a young waitress called Kaja, deeply bound u ...Show more
Between Each Breath by Adam Thorpe
Category: Fiction
Once 'England's most promising young composer' - now living comfortably in Hampstead with his wife Milly, an heiress - Jack Middleton is in mid-life decline, his career in free-fall. When he visits Estonia for a three-week search for inspiration, he falls for a young waitress called Kaja, deeply bound u ...Show more
Flight by Adam Thorpe
Category: Fiction
Bob Winrush was a freight dog, flying consignments of goods and sometimes people to all the corners of the world. Until, one day, he walked away from a deal that didn't smell right - something a 'freight dog' should never do. Now working as a private pilot for an Emirate prince in Dubai, he finds that m ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; Adam Thorpe (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction
Madame BovaryBy Gustave FlaubertEmma, the main heroine of the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, is bored with the emptiness and ordinariness of the provincial life, so she engages in the extramarital affair hoping to change the circumstances. After the book had been published, the author and two ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Adam (TRN) Gustave; Thorpe Flaubert
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics
Emma, a passionate dreamer raised in the French countryside, is ready for her life to take off when she marries the decent, dull Dr. Charles Bovary. Marriage, however, fails to live up to her expectations, which are fueled by sentimental novels, and she turns disastrously to love affairs. The story of E ...Show more
Missing Fay by Adam Thorpe
Category: Fiction
'An intricately crafted novel, sharp-eared, current and full of heart' Guardian, Books of the Year A spirited fourteen-year-old, Fay, goes missing from a Lincoln council estate. Is she a runaway, or a victim - another face on a poster gradually fading with time? The story of her last few days before sh ...Show more
Nineteen Twenty-One by Adam Thorpe
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage War
It is the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921; dust storms in London, parched and cracking earth, autumn tints in July. Holed up in a cottage in the Chilterns, a young writer strives to write the first great novel of the War, impelled by his own suffering. Outward events and inner crises deflect him ...Show more
No Telling by Adam Thorpe
Category: Fiction
No Telling, Adam Thorpe's fifth novel, is set in 1968 in the Parisian suburbs and narrated by twelve-year-old Gilles as he approaches his First Communion, puberty, and some sense of the chaos around him. His home is deeply dysfunctional: a dithering mother, a hard-drinking, womanising uncle who beco ...Show more
Notes from the Cévennes - Half a Lifetime in Provincial France by Adam Thorpe
Category: Travel
A charming memoir exploring the history, landscape and people of rural France, told through the eyes of a Parisian-born Englishman, writer and poet. Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cévennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient ...Show more
Notes from the Cévennes: Half a Lifetime in Provincial France by Adam Thorpe
Category: Travel
Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the C vennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a C venol river, he wrote the novel that would become the Booker Prize-nominated Ulverton, now a Vintage Classic. In more r ...Show more