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Adam Farrer

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Adam Farrer is an essayist, the Editor of the creative nonfiction journal The Real Story and the Writer in Residence for Peel Park, Salford.

His first book, Cold Fish Soup, a memoir in essays, won the NorthBound Book Award at the 2021 Northern Writers’ Awards. The follow up, Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures, was published by Harper North in 2025. His writing can be found in numerous publications, including the Guardian, Metro, Test Signal (Dead Ink Books/Bloomsbury, 2021), Hinterland journal (2022), North Country (Saraband, 2022) and Lunate (2023).

He has been a photo lab technician, a kitchen porter, the voice of an automated phone system, an illustrator, a ceramicist, a musician, a music journalist and currently teaches creative no
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Cold Fish Soup

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Broken Biscuits by Adam Farrer
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Bertrand Russell
“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work.”
Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

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