Books written by Adam Foulds

This Is Not A Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

Her non-fiction work The Follow was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award and the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize. Who Named the Knife is an intimate portrait of her relationship as a juror with the defendant in a murder ...
This Is Not A Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

But what happens if a blue ID marries a green ID? The green can't live in Jerusalem, and the blue could lose their right to live in Jerusalem if they move to the West Bank. What happens if the blue has a business and an old and sick ...
In the Wolf's Mouth: A Novel

The piled leather had an acid tang. His pa sat there bent over the work. His hands were strong and skilful. They had to be to drive the thread through the tough skins.The spectacles on his nose caught the light in two half-moons.
Dream Sequence: A Novel

A tang in the air of singed electrical metal and dirt. A few people, also with cases, were already waiting on the platform. The train banged out of the tunnel and rushed to a stop in front of her. The doors opened.
The Quickening Maze: A Novel

Historically accurate yet brilliantly imagined, this is the debut publication of this elegant and riveting novel in the United States.
The Broken Word: An Epic Poem of the British Empire in Kenya, and the Mau Mau Uprising Against It

The stunning debut from "one of the best British writers to emerge in the past decade." (Julian Barnes) With a voice that is at once fierce and lyrical, Adam Foulds tells the story of the Mau Mau uprising against British colonial rule in ...
The Quickening Maze

Rapturous yet precise, exquisitely written, rich in character and detail, this is a remarkable and deeply affecting book: a visionary novel which contains a world.
In the Wolf's Mouth

It observes the characters' attempts to find meaning in all of this, to tell stories to themselves that make sense.