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Email: jadadams@btinternet.com
Phone: 0793 9635014
Decadent Women is about the women who contributed to the leading 1890s journal. It has been 20 years in the making (not continuously). I have been publishing research leading to this book in academic journals.
'Superb storytelling....this is a book that reflects impressive scholarship and research, but wears its scholarship lightly...I couldn't put it down.' - Prof Margaret Stetz
Coverage in the London Review of Books, Literary Review, The Tablet. 'More than just a group biography, Decadent Women is an engaging cultural history of of the 1890s...While grounded in diligent scholarship, Adams' book liberates the women writers and artists of the "Yellow Nineties" from academic obscurity and makes the reader want to know them better.' - Dr Jenny McAuley
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My new novel, set on a Greek island, sees four young people looking for sun, sea and romance. They find these, but they also find that the island has a hidden side as crime and corrupt politics reveal that nothing is what it seems.
Into this cultural complexity steps a naive refugee from the East whose involvement undermines the uneasy balance of north and south Europe.
The Banyan and Her Roots
I have been a friend of the liberal Indian publishing company Palimpsest for some time and I was pleased when they asked me to edit a collection of stories from writers in different parts of the Indian diaspora.
'The book, unlike any other in the recent past, captures authentically the malaise and aspirations of South Asian societies.
Writer Jad Adams, who has chosen the stories and edited them, says these are tales of anxious women and confused men, of relationships which start in the glow of love but end in a baffling clash of contradictory cultures; oppressive family relationships with overwhelming obligations; travellers feeling out of place in a new culture, but also being liberated in a new environment.
Of the 23 writers in the volume, 13 are women. Seven Pakistani writers have also made it to the book. There is a commonality of tone in the work of women writers from across the borders. They all stand up to patriarchy and reject war as a way for the neighbours to dominate each other. They are more concerned about the war going on for hundreds of years inside their homes. …'
- Hindustan Times