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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), Lunate (2023) and (Writing the Real (Dead Ink Books, 2026).

He has been a photo lab technician, a kitchen porter, the voice of an automated phone system, an illustrator, a ceramicist, a musician and a music
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Average rating: 4.29 · 384 ratings · 109 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
Cold Fish Soup

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Test Signal

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Hinterland, Issue 11 2022

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A Place Both Wonderful and Strange by Scott Meslow
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"Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous. Love the North Sea and love local writing and love the way that this was written. Very melancholy, funny and heartfelt."
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The Party to End All Parties by Lucy Roth
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Broken Biscuits by Adam Farrer
"In all honesty my feelings about this book were a bit of a rollercoaster. Struggled to read it at points, then tore through it at others.
Only as I approached the end did I get a sense of enjoying the journey it took me on."
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Rat Race by Callum McSorley
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I discovered McSorley after attending his event at the Helensburgh Book Festival last year and have been a fan ever since. I barreled through Squeaky Clean and Paperboy, and Rat Race matched the very high standard set by the first two books of the tr ...more
Broken Biscuits by Adam Farrer
"Perhaps if I had never read Cold Fish Soup (and that's genuinely an awful thought) I would have been 'amazed' and given this book 5 stars. Anyway, I loved it, it fills in blanks from Cold Fish Soup, and it is a book I'd like my sons to read.

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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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