Adam Foulds with Ludovic Assémat

Adam Foulds is often described in interviews as an intense individual. If intense seems something of a cliched adjective for the artist, it perhaps goes some way to explaining the kind of concentrated burst of activity that produced three highly acclaimed, and hugely different literary works between 2007 and 2009, catapulting the author from the literary wilderness into the Booker spotlight.

Intensity also helps illuminate certain qualities in Foulds’ fiction, which is characteristically based on painstaking research and the careful reconstruction of historical events and figures. (Dr James Procter).