Since 1974, following publication of his second novel, Shardik, he has been a full-time author. He was a senior civil servant who worked as an Assistant Secretary for the Department of Agriculture, later part of the Department of the Environment, from 1948 to 1974.
He took the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1948 and of Master of Arts in 1953. He received a class B discharge enabling him to return to Worcester to continue his studies for a further two years (1946-48). In 1940 Adams joined the British Army, in which he served until 1946. On 3 September 1939 Neville Chamberlain announced that the United Kingdom was at war with Germany.
In 1938 he went up to Worcester College, Oxford to read Modern History. From 1933 until 1938 he was educated at Bradfield College.
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