Jad Adams

Welcome. I have been working on a new venture, Meles Meles Marks, a small publisher which will bring out less commercial works of mine and publish the back catalogue of myself and Julie Peakman. The first book, out in January 2023, is Cafe Europa, my novel about four young people who go to work on a Greek island over summer 2015. It covers romance, deception, corruption and the refugee crisis in a book which, though it is not explicitly political, is an oblique reference to what has been lost by Brexit. The year 2023 also sees the launch of Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives, published by Reaktion, which is a group biography of some of the women who worked for the leading decadent journal the Yellow Book in the 1890s. It is my first major book since Women and the Vote: A World History which was the culmination of 25 years of work on radical and nationalist figures. I was able to add to knowledge I already had and do extensive new work to create a world picture of the relationship of nationalism to radicalism seen through the prism of votes for women. I was very pleased at the attention my Gandhi: Naked Ambition received. It is published in America by Pegasus under the title Gandhi: The True Man Behind Modern India. There has been a deal of interest in foreign language editions, and a Portuguese version has been published. I updated my biography of Tony Benn which originally came out in 1992. I have written new chapters to take in the last twenty years of Tony Benn's very active life, and revised previous chapters. The new book is published by Biteback. My work has concentrated on radicals and nationalists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, hence my interest in Benn, the Nehrus, Gandhi and Pankhurst. I have also worked on characters from the 'English Decadence' of the 1890s, and am planning to produce an updated version of my biography Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson. Thank you for your interest in my work. For personal details, news etc, please refer to my website: www.jadadams.co.uk.