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Adam Foulds

February 2019

  • Adam Foulds for Saturday Review.

    Dream Sequence by Adam Foulds – review

    Adam Foulds skewers the world of acting in an entertaining novel that fizzes with wit

January 2019

  • Cormorant underwater<br>A cormorant dives into shallow and clear water.

    Dream Sequence by Adam Foulds review – precision of observation

    This story of an ambitious actor and his obsessed fan is brilliantly written, but lacks contemporary resonance

November 2018

  • “Alias Grace” Day 6365 Photo: Jan Thijs 2016<br>Alias Grace - Netflix press publicity

    Top 10s
    Top 10 modern Victorian novels

    Narrative tricks minted in the 19th century are still working in contemporary fiction by authors from Margaret Atwood to Sarah Waters

January 2016

  • Benedict Cumberbatch (Victor Frankenstein) and Jonny Lee Miller (The Creature) in Frankenstein by Nick Dear @ Olivier Theatre. National Theatre. Directed by Danny Boyle. (Opening 22-02-11) Tristram Kenton 02/11 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Books blog
    Ahhhh! What are your scariest reading experiences?

    To mark the birth of Frankenstein’s monster 200 years ago, the Royal Society of Literature has been asking writers for their most alarming moments as a reader – join them, if you dare

November 2015

  • Authors Clockwise: Adam Foulds, Sarah Waters, Helen Simpson and Ross Raisin

    Top tips for young writers – from past winners of the young writer award

    How do you get started on a writing career? As the Sunday Times / PFD Young writer of the year award returns, we ask past winners including Sarah Waters, Ross Raisin and Helen Simpson for their top tips for young authors

September 2014

  • Hip-hop poet … Kate Tempest

    Literary prodigies - make a start on our quiz

  • Next Generation Poets 2014

    ‘Next Generation’ of 20 hotly-tipped poets announced by Poetry Book Society

August 2014

  • Desert camouflage

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Adam Foulds and Gerard Woodward on the second world war - Edinburgh books podcast

    The two novelists talk about how the Allied invasion of Sicily and wartime camouflage inform their new books

June 2014

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    Top 10s
    The top 10 hospital stories

    From George Eliot to Ken Kesey, novelist Sarah Moss finds the best novels featuring these fascinating, sometimes frightening institutions

February 2014

  • in the wolfs mouth foulds

    In the Wolf's Mouth by Adam Foulds – review

    Adam Foulds's second world war novel charts four interweaving lives in poetic prose, writes Frances Perraudin

  • allied invasion sicily

    In the Wolf's Mouth by Adam Foulds – review

    Foulds' compassion for the singularity of each individual's suffering saves his characters from becoming caricatures, writes Alberto Manguel
  • Jeremy Irons as Franz Kafka

    Top 10s
    The best fiction featuring real writers

    From Colm Tóibín to Italo Calvino, novelist Rachel Cantor describes her favourite encounters with authors who appear in other people's books

January 2014

  • Adam Foulds

    A life in ...
    Adam Foulds: 'As a kid my nightmares weren't about generic monsters, but real violence and hatred'

    The books interview: The poet and novelist on his latest book, a war story set in Africa and Sicily, and how poetry increasingly informs his prose. By Nicholas Wroe

March 2013

  • g.mcgregor

    Alex Clark's best young British novelists

    Ahead of Granta's 2013 list, former Granta editor and veteran of the 2003 judging panel Alex Clark picks her 20 favourites

May 2012

  • leonie hampton

    Granta 119: Britain – review

    William Skidelsky enjoys Granta's latest collection, which takes a walk on the wilder side of British life

October 2011

  • An illustration by Jirayu Koo

    Books season
    How to write fiction: Adam Foulds on description with meaning

    You need to immerse yourself in the world in order to describe it truthfully, says Adam Foulds. Choose your words precisely and they will propel your plot forward

December 2010

  • mural by Eric Ravilious

    Author, author
    Adam Foulds salutes Romantic Moderns, winner of the Guardian first book award

    Alexandra Harris's Romantic Moderns 'helps us to recognise the contribution that English art has made to a culture'

November 2010

  • dan brown

    Language is no barrier as Impac Dublin prize longlist takes on the world

    The 162 novels up for this year's librarian-nominated award come from 43 countries, with 42 novels in translation

July 2010

  • Oliver Knussen conducting

    My hero
    My hero Oliver Knussen by Adam Foulds

    Adam Foulds: My hero, Oliver Knussen

October 2009

  • Booker Prize For Fiction 2009

    Digested read
    Catch up with the Booker prize shortlist

    The winner is announced tonight, so have you read all six contenders? John Crace has digested them all

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