his one-stage play, Couch Grass and Ribbon, written almost entirely in Berkshire dialect, was performed at the Watermill Theatre, Berkshire, in 1996. Using period language, he has translated two great nineteenth-century French novels for Vintage Classics: Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Zola's Thérèse Raquin. His first work of non-fiction, On Silbury Hill, described by Paul Farley in the Guardian as "a rich and evocative book of place", was Book of the Week on Radio 4 in August 2014. Works Poetry Mornings in the Baltic (Secker and Warburg, 1988) Meeting Montaigne (Secker, 1990) From the Neanderthal (Cape, 1999) Nine Lessons from the Dark (Cape, 2003) Birds with a Broken Wing (Cape, 2007) Voluntary (Cape, 2012) Words from the Wall (Cape, 2019) Novels Ulverton (Secker, 1992; Vintage Classics, 2010) Still (Secker, 1995) Pieces of Light (Cape, 1998) Nineteen Twenty-One (Cape, 2001) No Telling (Cape, 2003) The Rules of Perspective (Cape, 2005) Between Each Breath (Cape, 2007) The Standing Pool (Cape, 2008) Hodd (Cape, 2009) Flight (Cape, 2012) Missing Fay (Cape, 2017) Short story collections Shifts (Cape, 2000) Is This the Way You Said? (Cape, 2006) Non-fiction On Silbury Hill (Little Toller, 2014) Notes from the Cévennes (Bloomsbury, 2018) Translation Madame Bovary (Vintage Classics, 2011) Thérèse Raquin (Vintage Classics, 2013) Radio dramas The Fen Story (1991) Offa's Daughter (1993) Couch Grass and Ribbon (1996) An Envied Place (2002) Nought Happens Twice Thus (2003) Himmler's Boy (2004) Prizes and awards 1985 Eric Gregory Award, for poetry 1988 Whitbread Award, for poetry, shortlist, Mornings in the Baltic 1992 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, for best work of regional literature, Ulverton 2007 Forward Poetry Prize, for Best Poetry Collection of the Year, shortlist, Birds with a Broken Wing 2010 Walter Scott Prize, for historical fiction, shortlist, Hodd Notes and references External links Overview in the Boston Review by James Hynes (2003). Chapter 1 of Pieces of Light by Adam Thorpe, reprinted in The New York Times. Watch a video interview with Adam Thorpe on The Interview Online. Hodd by Adam Thorpe: review Review of Hodd in the Daily Telegraph. Adam Thorpe Interview with Bertram Reinecke | poetenladen (poet-shop) Interview with Bertram Reinecke. Adam Thorpe: 'One can hardly say I've been unambitious' "One can hardly say that I've been unambitious." Interview in the Guardian, 2012. Adam Thorpe | British Council Literature An overview on the British Council website. 20th-century English novelists 21st-century English novelists English dramatists and playwrights English