adam thorpe dear with all the good will i have for your inquiry for recommendations among adam thorpe's ouevre i'm afraid i must disappoint you as i have virtually nothing to offer the loss is mine as well a trudge to the local library revealed its collection to hold precisely zero titles of his i've only recently discovered this author the one volume of his i read shifts was brought home from and subsequently returned to what we call the pass around box outside the library door filled with individuals' discards that don't pass the librarians' muster for inclusion on the limited space english language shelves resource restrictions prevent me from acquiring books by choice happily i'm largely content to make do with what comes my way i was impressed with this collection of short stories a favorite genre of mine and likewise noted the author's recognition as a poet and dramatist imagine my indignation then to discover he had no page in the english language wikipedia as with other authors i consider worthy of promotion i took the time and made the effort to create a page with what i could find on the web and was gratified to subsequently it expanded by fellow editors now thanks to you i've added ulverton to my want to read list if you're an aficionado of short fiction i can recommend some authors you might enjoy do let me know if you're interested best