The novel is in rude good health. Millions of people all over the world buy novels, read them, discuss them, take them out of libraries, pounce on them in charity shops, borrow them from friends and discover them on Kindles. Money is being made by lots of publishers and even a few writers. There are […]
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‘just sit back and be compulsively enthralled…’
Author Adèle Geras has published over 100 books for readers of all ages, and writes under the pseudonym Hope Adams.
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I hope everyone who visits will enjoy looking round it and finding out about me and my books. Links on this page take you to Books for Adults, Young Adult Books and Books for Children.
There are links also to News and Events and if I write a book review I’ll post it under What I’m Reading.
I will be writing under a pseudonym with my new publisher Michael Joseph as Hope Adams and her books will have a separate page coming soon.
There are links also to News and Events and if I write a book review I’ll post it under What I’m Reading.
I will be writing under a pseudonym with my new publisher Michael Joseph as Hope Adams and her books will have a separate page coming soon.
Latest books
Book Reviews
- Geras has an amazing creativity. She invents and executes the most original plots which she fleshes out with characters so convincing that one feels that one knows them.
Jane Baker
- There are many pleasures in this wonderfully warm and entertaining novel - the subtle, deep exploration of character, a story superlatively well told, and the rich, fun details.
Sophie Masson
- The reader will sink into Adele Geras’s sensuous descriptions. As ever, the well-observed characters live warmly on the pages, which I couldn’t help but keep turning.
P. Dolan
My Blog
Tara Westover's Educated - reviewed by Adele Geras
The cover of Tara Westover's Educated is striking. The passage quoted on the back of the book tells you something of what this memoir is about: the author's journey from Idaho to a PhD from Cambridge, a path strewn with astonishing descriptions of life in her extraordinary family. It also demonstrates some of the power […]
Tombland by C J Sansom, reviewed by Adele Geras
A rich, complicated and fascinating novel ... I was swept up in it. When this enormous novel was published in early November this year, it went straight to the very top of the Nielsen Bookscan charts, selling about 45,000 copies. A few weeks before it appeared, there was a piece in the Sunday Times by […]