Adrian Hornsby (UK, 1977) is a writer who sees stories as music and time in landscapes. His work is characterised by an intensely melodic use of language, and vivid scenes blown across vast interior spaces. Moods range from the subversively funny to the malevolently beautiful.
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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