Health New Year Festival : An Afternoon with Adam Farrer.

When it comes to the challenge of being a man, Adam Farrer always seems to find a way to fall short...

Broken Biscuits vividly recounts Adam’s struggles to live up to masculine expectations, real or imagined. From the calamity of his first serious relationship to an obsession with Prince that sees everyone questioning his sexuality, and from the repercussions of his adult circumcision to his doubts about his ability to survive the apocalypse, this candid and personal collection of essays is astonishingly far-reaching and riotously funny.

Adam Farrer is an award-winning writer, mentor and editor and currently works at the University of Salford, where he is the Writer in Residence for Peel Park. He has taught creative nonfiction and life writing at the University of Lancaster and extensively at retreats, literary festivals and prisons.

His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The Guardian, Metro, Hinterland and Test Signal (Bloomsbury/Dead Ink, 2021). Specialising in personal essays that use humour to tackle challenging subject matter, his writing has been praised by The TLS, The Mail on Sunday and Publishers Weekly. He is the author of two personal essay collections, Cold Fish Soup (Saraband, 2022), winner of the Northbound Book Award, and Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures (HarperNorth, 2025) and edits the creative nonfiction journal The Real Story.