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Hornsby’s writing covers a remarkable compass of forms and interests — including theatre, opera, film, essays and non-fiction books; and ranging in subject from teenage runaways on stony beaches to hydroponic tomatoes in the Middle East. The Chinese Dream (010 Publishers, 2008), co-authored with Neville Mars, is an award-winning monster-volume anatomising China’s rapid urbanisation and the visions and structures that drive it. The Good Analyst (IFG, forthcoming 2012) reimagines social value, money, and the power of thought; A.M. (premiered 2010) is a love story about sound. He has published extensively on China, global development and the politics of space, and written four internationally produced plays, a mixed-media opera, and a host of short stories. Hornsby’s approach to fiction and non-fiction alike is to combine high-level concepts with acute observation and a mordant wit. He likes to write narratives of ideas that unfold through time, revealing as they go a series of parts pulled from life. Adrian Hornsby lives in London, and is currently working on ...
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