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Nov 29, 2021 · The Falling Thread by Adam O’Riordan review – stately family saga. This poised, Jamesian debut novel about a Manchester family in the lead up to the first world war is a masterclass in detail...
Los Angeles Review of Books. ‘O’Riordan’s delicate, attentive music is especially suited to capturing the intimacies and harms of our loves’ Guardian. Adam O’Riordan is one of our most exciting young British poets; his collection In the Flesh was published by Chatto in July 2010.
Dec 1, 2022 · The award-winning poet and short-story writer on writing in a former coal cellar, channelling a character from Howards End and being inspired by his mother. Adam O’Riordan (Photo: George...
Adam O’Riordan is one of our most exciting young British poets; his collection In the Flesh was published by Chatto in July 2010
About the Author. After receiving his degree from Oxford University, Adam O’Riordan became the youngest poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust. His poetry collection In the Flesh won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2011, awarded to the best writer under the age of thirty-five. He lives in Manchester, England, where he is the academic ...
Adam O’Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982. He read English at Oxford and in 2008 became Poet-in-Residence at The Wordsworth Trust, the Centre for British Romanticism. His first collection of poems In the Flesh won a Somerset Maugham Award, his second A Herring Famine was followed by a critically acclaimed collection of short stories The ...
Nov 11, 2021 · Adam O’Riordan’s debut novel, The Falling Thread, is a delicious portrait of three siblings of the Wright family from 1890 to 1913 as they negotiate a world of privilege and power in Manchester. Born into a world rich in cash, culture and patriotism, the eldest sibling Charles is on holiday from his studies at Cambridge.
