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Author · Storyteller
Adam James
@adamjames
Writer interested in historical fiction, storytelling and all the strange practical decisions involved in turning drafts into books.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Adam James writes across historical fiction and drama, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
Readers notice more than writers sometimes give them credit for.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Adam James
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Last Bell in Kelham
Set in Sheffield during the final years of the First World War, the novel follows a foundry clerk who is asked to keep a ledger that should not exist. As the work shifts from steel orders to secrets, he is drawn into a dispute that touches soldiers’ families, union men and the quiet machinery of wartime survival.
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Draft progress
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