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Remember Dementia
Adam’s long career as writer, journalist and lecturer drew to a close with his diagnosis of vascular dementia in 2021. As he began to experience the shifting ground and flickering shadows of his condition, he turned to his first love, writing poetry.
He managed to complete the two poems which begin this book. The rest is his own selection of poems he wrote at intervals throughout his life.
“… powerful, moving, raging… I can’t recall any writer tackling the subject in poetry before now… It is a brave important piece of writing.”
Gillian Clarke
Poet, Broadcaster, Lecturer

About Adam
Following a degree at Cambridge, Adam began his journalism career on the pre-Murdoch Sunday Times in London before freelancing for thirty years for a wide variety of newspapers, magazines and broadcasting outlets.
Adam and his wife, Gabrielle Macphedran (broadcaster and journalist), made western Spain their home for many years. Together they led cultural and historical walking tours through selected areas of Spain and Portugal.
His books of place – and history/art history – include works on Crete, Spain, Holland, the Moorlands of England and his last, Camino, a companion to the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela.

Books
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REMEMBER DEMENTIA:
Poems from a Life Remembered and Forgotten
BookLabs, 2023
“… powerful, moving, raging… I can’t recall any writer tacking the subject in poetry before now… It is a brave important piece of writing… Adam, you were ever a magician with words about place, and the place you find yourself now needs you to describe it.”
Gillian Clarke
Poet, broadcaster, lecturer
‘Still doing what he does so well: telling us about places that we haven’t been to, but that some of us may yet visit.’
Pablo Gervás
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

The Moorlands of England
(text accompanying pictures by Dudley Witney)
Key Porter Books, Toronto, 1995
“To those, who like me, feel a tingle at the mystery and wonder of the evidence of the distant past hidden away among these remote moors of England and my own Yorkshire moors in particular, this book is a constant joy.”
James Herriot
‘A highly recommendable book for those who know the moorlands of England – and for those who would like to. Splendid pictures and an engaging text.’
Graham Winston

SPANISH JOURNEYS: A Portrait of Spain
Viking 1992, Penguin, 1993
“A staggering feat of scholarship. Hopkins gives a detailed account of Spanish history from the Moorish invasion of 711 up to the death of Franco… Journeys across the old territories of Aragón and Castile are enlivened by a rich amalgam of anecdote, impressions and reflections on the literary and artistic life of Spain”
Ian Thomson, Independent on Sunday
“Although researched a couple of decades ago, this is still an enjoyable and highly stimulating exploration of Spanish history and culture, weaving its considerable scholarship in an accessible and unforced travelogue form, and full of illuminating anecdotes.”
Rough Guide to Spain
“Adam Hopkins’s great merit is that he illuminates Spanish history through geography and vice versa…..good on art….concludes with a vivid sketch of Spain today, including everything from terrorism to flamenco, from bull-fighting to Benidorm.”
Piers Brendon, Mail on Sunday

Holland
Faber and Faber, 1988
“Holland brings into focus one of the most surprising of all European nations……an informed discussion of Holland and its art…..from the epic contest against the Spanish empire…modern Europe’s first republic….after the Second World War a society willing to take social experiment to unusual lengths……Starting with the Flemish primitives and continuing the story from Rembrandt to Mondrian, Hopkins throws a clear light on the triumphs of Dutch art.”
CRETE: Its Past, Present and People
Faber and Faber, 1977
“… love and knowledge shared… I doubt whether many among even the most enthusiastic Philhellenes are familiar with the valleys, the villages and the remote hamlets of which Mr Hopkins, tracing the classical and the Byzantine inheritance of Crete, writes with such knowledge and such authority.”
Dilys Powell, The Sunday Times
Includes a chapter on World War II and the resistance.
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