Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber Long Time No See
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Faber & Faber The Cherry Orchard
Book SynopsisHear what I have to say about the cherry orchard, because it is mine. I say bring it down, tear it down. Smash it down and tear it down. Watch, watch. Just you watch. I will build holiday villas, as far as the eye can see. I will build a place for everyone to come and enjoy. For the future. And this will be the future. A new life. A new way of life. Here! Come now and play. Play. Play! Get the band to play.Ranyevskaya returns more or less bankrupt after ten years abroad. Luxuriating in her fading moneyed world and regardless of the increasingly hostile forces outside, she and her brother snub the lucrative scheme of Lopakhin, a peasant turned entrepreneur, to save the family estate. In so doing, they put up their lives to auction and seal the fate of the beloved orchard. Set at the very start of the twentieth century, The Cherry Orchard captures a poignant moment in Russia''s history as the country rolls inexorably towards 1917. The Cherry Orchard
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Faber & Faber The Secret Life of Poems
Book SynopsisThe Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase. This brief engagement with forty-seven poems is intended for students and readers of poetry, and seeks to explain how poetry works by bringing into view the hidden order of specific poems.
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Faber & Faber A Rich Full Death
Book SynopsisA Rich Full Death is a novel of poetry, murder and intrigue. Young Bostonian Robert Booth manoeuvres an entree into the residence of Robert Browning and his wife Elizabeth in nineteenth-century Florence. When Mr Browning is called away, Booth follows him - and is brought to the village of his childhood sweetheart, who is now hanging by the neck from a tree in the garden...If you enjoyed A Rich Full Death you may also like The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, also by Michael Dibdin.
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Faber & Faber A Slow Air
Book SynopsisMorna works as a cleaner in Edinburgh. She spends her time drinking, attempting affairs and trying to work out the mind of the twenty-year-old son with whom she shares her flat. Her elder brother, Athol, lives near Glasgow airport with his wife. The owner of a floor-tiling company, with two grown-up children, he''s proud of his hard-won achievements since moving west.Between them, they have differing memories of their upbringing and their parents and definite opinions about each other. But these are left unsaid because Morna and Athol haven''t spoken a word to each other in fourteen years . . . When Morna''s son Joshua travels to see his uncle, he sets off a remarkable and life-changing series of events.A Slow Air by David Harrower premiered at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in April 2011, and transferred to the Traverse Theatre as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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Faber & Faber Shall We Gather at the River
Book SynopsisShall We Gather At The River tells the story of Enoch O''Reilly, the great flood that afflicts his small town, and the rash of mysterious suicides that accompany it. Charlatan, Presleyite and local radiovangelist, O''Reilly is a man haunted by the childhood ghosts of his father''s sinister radio set... a false prophet destined for a terrible consummation with that old, evil river.A suicide mystery and a rich patchwork narrative of legend, myth, occult inheritance, eco-conspiracy, viral obsession, airwaves, water and death, Shall We Gather At The River is a spellbinding piece of work, marked by prose that is by turns haunting, poetic and blackly humourous. With shades of Flannery O''Connor''s Wise Blood, Jeffrey Eugenides'' The Virgin Suicides, of Twin Peaks and Wisconsin Death Trip, Shall We Gather At The River is a novel that will further cement Murphy''s reputation as one of the most original and exciting noveliTrade ReviewAt its best, the book operates almost like a collection of linked short stories, and there are sections that stand alone as absorbing performances in their own right. The prose is both evocative and slippery, characterised by a kind of evasive bombas ... the effect of the book is, quite appropriately, like that of listening to a shortwave radio being flicked up and down the frequencies ... there are enough moments of poignancy and lyrical force to make tuning in a worthwhile endeavour. -- Mark O'Connell Sunday Business Post Murphy's rural Ireland feels thrillingly unpredictable, if not downright malevolent ... Murphy rightly eschews easy answers when it comes to explaining the tragedy and, at its best, his prose is as eerily hypnotic as the river of the book's title. -- Daragh Reddin Metro This tale, full of foreboding, is delivered through chapters of prose, journal entries, news reports, radio broadcasts and interviews. Add a moody mix of Irish folklore, myth, superstition, sensationalism and religious hysteria with a subtle and affecting use of language, and you have a strange and engaging novel that can easily be read in one sitting. We Love This Book Perhaps the thing that stops this from being a dull novel about the horrors of fate is that it isfunny. Ornate, even grotesque, comic episodes are a significant part of its charm ... Murphy moves into and out of various characters' voices with ease and grace ... wonderful portrayals of how we try to re-narrate ourselves and our lives, even if our new stories don't last long enough. -- Aime Williams Spectator The myth and mist-soaked cloth of his work is woven through with a distinctly gothic rhythm and rhyme, a tautness of telling and ear for phrase. Shall We Gather at the River? - the title comes from a Victorian hymn - grabs you with this cocktail on the very first page and doesn't let go until the wild ride is over... a pummeling, relentless prose-track of fire, brimstone, black comedy and rock'n'roll. Caught by the River Peter Murphy can write like an angel. Well, like a bad angel - a clarification he'd probably prefer. His gaze is mischievous, and he delights in words and can nail things and people with incisive descriptions that can be startling or funny but are always lucid. He has a showman's zest for the flamboyant, the baroque, the subverted cliche and lyrical phrase. Echoes of other writers - Pat McCabe, Angela Carter, Flannery O'Connor, Samuel Beckett - reveal his good taste. And he has a gift that is much rarer in writers than it should be: a sense of rhythm, a feel for the way sentences follow each other to carry the reader with them. Murphy is also a musician, and it shows. -- Anne Haverty Irish Times We need more books like this, I thoroughly enjoyed this ... the Irish novel needs more of this type of book ... a triumph -- Declan Burke RTE 'Arena' His two startling novels, John the Revelator, and now the even more terse and unflinchingly all-consuming Shall We Gather at the River - the former suggestive in its title of the Book of Revelation, the second evocative of a stirring Christian anthem - are books of hyperbole, of thunderbolt, neither readily forgotten -- Tom Adair The Scotsman A ripping yarn ... Murphy rattles a genre's pots and pans with passion and poetry. -- Donal O'Donoghue RTE Guide [Murphy] writes well about the voodoo effect of music, and the way that songs and stories can invade our dreams ... his Southern Gothic style - a cross between Flannery O'Connor and Flann O'Brien - is peculiarly well suited to depicting the small-town madness of 1980s Ireland ... an ambitious eco-fantasy by a talented stylist. -- Keith Hopper Times Literary Supplement Beautifully wrought prose ... Murphy has created a haunting fable about death and the sins of the father, that will live on in your memory. -- Stav Sherez Catholic Herald 'Murphy is a writer with a wicked imagination. His highly stylised brand of gothic prose serves up a treat of gruesome, eschatological images that are equally disturbing and amusing simultaneously.' -- JP O'Malley Sunday Independent
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Faber & Faber The Knives
Book SynopsisAs Home Secretary, David Blaylock oversees the police, border control and the struggle against domestic terrorism. Some say the job is impossible; Blaylock insists he is tough enough.Constantly in his mind is the threat of an attack on Britain's streets. But over the course of one autumn, Blaylock finds that the danger is much more personal . . .
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Faber & Faber Marble Season
Book SynopsisIn his first book with Faber, Hernandez tells the untold stories of these American comics legends'' youth, and portrays the reality of life in a large family in suburban 1960s California. Told largely from the point of view of middle child Huey - who stages Captain America plays and treasures his older brother''s comic book collection almost as much as his approval - Marble Season deftly follows these boys as they navigate their cultural and neighborhood norms. Set against the golden age of the American dream and the silver age of comics, and awash with pop-culture references - TV shows, comic books, super-heroes and music -Marble Season subtly details how their innocent, joyfully creative play changes as they grow older and encounter name-calling, abusive bullies, and the value judgments of others. A coming-of-age story both comic and moving, it will have timeless resonance for children and adults alike.Trade ReviewWhat's amazing about the book is the way it reminds you that all childhoods are, to a degree, the same, irrespective of time and place ... Marble Season is a treat: beady, nostalgic and sometimes unexpectedly piercing. -- Rachel Cooke Observer 20130616
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Faber & Faber Dry Bones in the Valley
Book Synopsis''A tough, edgy thriller ... I wish like hell that my name were on the cover.'' Wiley Cash, New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2014 Gold Dagger for This Dark Road to MercyWINNER of the LA Times Book Award - Thriller/MysteryWINNER of the Edgar Best First NovelLonglisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) DaggerWhen an elderly recluse discovers a corpse on his land, Officer Henry Farrell follows the investigation to strange places in the countryside, and into the depths of his own frayed soul.In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, secrets and feuds go back generations. The lone policeman in a small township on the sparse northern border, Henry Farrell expected to spend his mornings hunting and fishing, his evenings playing old-time music. Instead, he has watched the dual encroachment of fracking companies and drug dealers bring money and troubles to the area. As a second body turns up, Henry''s search for the k
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Faber & Faber Berlin Red Inspector Pekkala
Book SynopsisApril, 1945.East of Berlin, the Red Army stands poised to unleash its final assault upon the ruined capital of Hitler''s Thousand Year Reich.To the north, at a lonely outpost near the Baltic sea, German scientists perfect a guidance system for the mighty V2 rocket, which has already caused massive damage to the cities of London and Antwerp. This device, known only by the codename Diamondstream, will allow the rocket to arrive at its target with pin-point accuracy. So devastating is the potential of this newly-mastered technology that Hitler''s promise to the German people of a ''miracle weapon'' that will turn the tide of the war might actually come true.When a radio message sent to Hitler''s Headquarters, heralding the success of Diamondstream, is intercepted by an English listening station, British Intelligence orders one of its last agents operating in Berlin to acquire the plans for the device, Desperate to evacuate their agent from the doomed city before the
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Faber & Faber The Absence of War
Book SynopsisThe Absence of War offers a meditation on the classic problems of leadership, and is the third part of a critically acclaimed trilogy of plays (Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges) about British institutions.Its unsparing portrait of a Labour Party torn between past principles and future prosperity, and of a deeply sympathetic leader doomed to failure, made the play hugely controversial and prophetic when it was first presented at the National Theatre, London, in 1993.The Absence of War is much more than a piece of skilled reporting. It is actually cast as a classic tragedy.'' Guardian
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Faber & Faber Cuttin It Faber Drama
Book SynopsisWe''re opposites, even though we came from the same, she''s nuttin like me, an that shames me. Teenagers Muna and Iqra catch the same school bus. They were both born in Somalia but their backgrounds are very different. What they share is a painful secret. Tracking the urgent issue of FGM in Britain, this devastating play reveals the price some girls pay to become women. Cuttin'' It premiered at the Young Vic, London, in May 2016. Charlene James is the winner of the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright and the Alfred Fagon Award for Best New Play.
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Faber & Faber Blizzard
Book SynopsisWinner of the Southern Arts Prize and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.The poems in Matthew Francis''s first collection range from the light-hearted to the unsettling, from lyrical and witty evocations of landscape and domestic life to narratives of apocalypse and surreal fantasy. Night and winter provide the dominant metaphors, but, from this material, Francis, whose technical adroitness and flair for storytelling are equally remarkable, conjures up a substantial imaginative world in which it is possible to live with a renewed sense of freedom.Dark, dangerous and exhilarating, Blizzard reveals a fully mature and compelling talent.
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Faber & Faber Every Day Above Ground
Book SynopsisFormer Army Ranger Van Shaw is out of money, and struggling to keep on the straight and narrow. When an old contact shows up on his doorstep, fresh out of prison and claiming to know the whereabouts of a hidden stash of gold, Van feels the powerful pull of his past. The trouble is, some things are too good to be true . . .
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Faber & Faber Cold Desert Sky
Book SynopsisNo one wanted to say it to me, that the girls were dead. But I knew . . . Late 1946 and Charlie Yates and his wife Lizzie have returned to Los Angeles, trying to stay anonymous in the City of Angels. But when Yates, back in his old job at the Pacific Journal, becomes obsessed by the disappearance of two aspiring Hollywood starlets, he finds it leads him right back to his worst fear: legendary mob boss Benjamin Bugsy' Siegel, a man he once crossed, and whose shadow he can't shake. As Yates's search for the truth draws him to the desert and the burgeoning city of Las Vegas, he finds himself caught between the FBI and the mob. Can he possibly see who is playing who, and find out what really happened to the girls?
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Faber & Faber Kismet
Book SynopsisAnna is in love. Or maybe she's not. She's free spirit: definitely happy. Or is it more panicked? In any case, she is living life to the full. Or maybe to the edge. And having a glass of wine. With a big birthday just around the corner, an important new project at work, and a long-term boyfriend, Anna should feel like her life is falling into place. But somehow, she just doesn't feel sure about, well, anything. So she decides to download the dating app Kismet, just as a test, of course But will she embrace the life she has, or risk everything for the life she imagines?
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Faber & Faber Fixer the Robot
Book SynopsisEvery morning, FIXER robot,trundles up the hillTo help the other robots as theydig and push and drill.A charming text that combines a truly heart-wrenching story with mechanical details, sure to enchant every young engineer.
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Faber & Faber Crushed
Book SynopsisPhoebe stands on Pulteney Bridge, tights gashed from toe to thigh. The shock of mangled metal and blood-stained walls flashes through her mind as she tries to cover her face so she won't be recognised. It wouldn't do to be spotted looking like this. She's missing a shoe. She feels sick.Phoebe thought murder and murder happened. Thoughts are just thoughts, they said. Now she knows they were wrong.At home, Phoebe arranges the scissors and knives so they point toward her mother's room. She is exhausted, making sure there's no trace of herself not a single hair, not even her scent left anywhere in the house. She must not let her thoughts unravel, because if they do, there's no telling who might be caught in the crossfire, and Phoebe will have to live with the consequences
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Faber & Faber The Ghost of Memory
Book SynopsisI had been shot. A bullet in my back. I fell. Where did I fall? I fell from a great height, it seemed, into a painting in a gallery in a great City. I found myself returning across centuries and generations to the end of my age. I had been caught by the Artist in what seemed the womb of unexpected being in which one becomes sensitive to the end one has reached and to a new beginning. It was an end, it was a new beginning one was called upon to probe and discover. We may dream, while still alive, of dying. But the dream is soon forgotten as are the edges and corners of a re-lived life of which we dream. It is buried in the unconscious. We know that life fades into death but, in what degree, does life re-live itself as it dreams of dying?The Ghost of Memory is a novel about life and death or rather - to put it somewhat differently - about the close, almost indefinable cross-culturalities between moments of life and death. This is played out through a man who is mistakenly shot as a ter
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Faber & Faber Conviction
Book SynopsisIf you enjoyed UNORTHODOX, you will be riveted by Rebekah Roberts . . .''A thrilling, utterly absorbing crime novel.'' MEGAN ABBOTTJournalist Rebekah Roberts works at New York City's sleaziest tabloid, but dreams of bigger things. When she receives a letter from a convicted murderer claiming his innocence, she sees both a story she can't ignore and, possibly, a chance.Twenty-two years earlier, just after the Crown Heights riots exploded between the black and Jewish neighbourhoods in Brooklyn, DeShawn Perkins was convicted of the brutal murder of his adoptive family. Rebekah's search for the truth is obscured by the decades that have elapsed: almost no one wants to talk about that grim, violent time in New York City?not even Saul Katz, a former NYPD cop and once her inside source. A searing exploration of the tensions between New York's closed communities, Conviction is a novel about the power - and cost - of loyalty and den
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Faber & Faber Walls
Book SynopsisFor thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. Great Walls have appeared on nearly every continent, the handiwork of people from Persia, Rome, China, Central America, and beyond. They have accompanied the rise of cities, nations, and empires. And yet they rarely appear in our history books.Spanning centuries and millennia, drawing on archaeological digs to evidence from Berlin and Hollywood, David Frye uncovers the story of walls and asks questions that are both intriguing and profound. Did walls make civilization possible? Can we live without them?This is more than a tale of bricks and stone: Frye reveals the startling link between what we build and how we live, who we are and how we came to be. It is nothing less than the story of civilization.
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Faber & Faber Shell Life on the Seashore
Book Synopsis''Armed with this intrepid survey, we can see a brave new world down there on the beach ... Exquisite revelation, of the most wonderful, watery kind.'' - Philip HoareFor many, the highlights of seaside holidays are rockpooling and gathering the glorious array of shells left strewn on the beach after the receding tide. Attracted by the infinite variety of shapes and colours, visitors can never resist making a souvenir collection of their own - but little do they suspect the fascinating lives of the animals who once occupied them. What if each shell had a story of its own to tell us, if only we knew the language? Mr Street's delightful, informative guide uncovers the secret history of each common shell, revealing not only which marine creature once inhabited it but the unique challenges of its watery habitat it had to solve. From barnacles to oysters, cockles to
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Faber & Faber Tamworth Pig Stories
Book SynopsisFeatures two classic tales about Tamworth, the kind-hearted and very wise pig with a flair for publicity, and his human friends, Thomas and Blossom The Prime of Tamworth Pig and Tamworth Pig Saves the Trees. In these tales Tamworth, Thomas and Blossom campaign to Save The Trees' and Grow More Grub and Eat Less Meat'.Carolyn Dinan's classic interior illustrations complement these exciting adventures.
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Faber & Faber As if by Chance Journeys Theatres Lives
Book SynopsisDavid Lan evokes a unique theatre of life. Sometimes hilarious, always deeply felt we travel with him to Peter Brook's Paris, to Chekhov's Yalta, to Lithuania in search of his great grandparents, to Broadway for the Tony Awards. There's escaping the South African army, the Royal Court in the 90s, spirit mediums in Zimbabwe. And his years running the Young Vic, drawing in great artists such as Ivo Van Hove, Jude Law, Gillian Anderson, Stephen Daldry and shows such as Yerma, The Jungle and The Inheritance.Exceptional. Rich, warm and sparkling.' Peter BrookHe is the Chagall of theatre, hurtling over his colourful life and the world, his shirt flying, dreaming on behalf of humanity.' Fiona ShawSincere, passionate, vulnerable, open, serious, loving. A great read for fans of theatre and of humanity.'' Ivo Van Hove
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Faber & Faber Eleutheria
Book SynopsisWritten in French in the late forties before Waiting for Godot, Eleutheria is about a young man at odds with his middle-class family, living alone in a bedsit and refusing to take part in ''normal'' life while accepting handouts from his mother. Often richly comic, it contains elements of high farce and draws on the traditions of French boulevard comedy and melodrama.This new edition includes the notice by Jérôme Lindon, in its original French, which accompanied the first edition in 1995, explaining the circumstances under which the play was first published.
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Faber & Faber Thom Gunn A Cool Queer Life
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Faber & Faber An unfinished man
Book SynopsisThis hex has festered,iss roots have been stuckfor almost three decades.I've been obliviousbut now I know.Thuh Lord has made it known.I can't ignore it now iss known.Gotta battle.Gotta fight.Kayode has been unemployed for seven years.
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Faber & Faber Crunch
Book Synopsis''It''s a triumph.''Nigella Lawson, Stocking Fillers 2024 list''This book is full of tasty morsels . . . A great present for the snacky gourmand.''Pandora Sykes''An absolute tour de force . . . I devoured it until the very last crumb and then licked the packet.''Felicity CloakeWe are a nation of crisp obsessives. Squashed into sandwiches on our lunch breaks and torn-open as centrepieces on pub tables, we buy tens of millions of packets every single day. But how did the humble potato snack become a national dish?CRUNCH: AN ODE TO CRISPS is journalist Natalie Whittle's love letter to the salty siren. She traces their evolution from the simplicity of salt sachets in the early 20th century, to 80s childhood favourites such as Hula Hoops, to the popularity of hand-cooked' gourmet flavours today.Along the way, Natalie will get to the heart of her own lifelong passion for crisps - exploring why they are bound up in ideas of childhood, nostalgia and comfort. Featuring crisp collectors, potato growers, flavour wizards and more, CRUNCH is a moreish read spanning 150 years of crisp history.
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Faber & Faber Joseph K and the Cost of Living
Book SynopsisJoseph K has a comfortable job in financial services and barely notices the growing chaos all around on the walk to work: the homelessness, the food banks, the anger, the protests, the relentless rise of the cost of living. Until one day, K is arrested. No one will explain what the charges are, but they must be answered.Emily White's adaptation of The Trial weaves the nightmare of arrest and injustice into a funny and physical take on Franz Kafka's classic.The play premiered at the Swansea Grand Theatre, in a production by National Theatre Wales, in March 2023.
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Faber & Faber The Book of ABBA
Book Synopsis''Almost as miraculous as the songs it exists to celebrate.'' PETE PAPHIDES''The only ABBA book that the world will ever need.'' TONY PARSONS''Writing perfection on musical perfection: book heaven.'' CAITLIN MORANThrough exclusive interviews and over a decade of deep research, renowned music journalist Jan Gradvall explores the secrets to ABBA''s success.More than half a century after their songs were recorded, ABBA still make people the world over dance and sing their hearts out. After interviewing the four members for an article in 2013 at which time the band had not been interviewed for over thirty years Jan Gradvall was granted unique access to them for the next decade. In The Book of ABBA, the band share their thoughts and opinions more openly than ever before, while Jan reveals the context in which their sound developed and shows how the story of ABBA is also the story of Sweden and the globalisation of pop culture.From their chart-topping ABBA Voyage their first album in forty years to the two-million-ticket-selling concert-experience of the same name, it is undeniable that, in the history of pop culture and music, there has never been a group like ABBA. With remarkable intimacy, Gradvall''s book brings readers closer than ever to one of the world''s most notoriously private music icons.
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Faber & Faber A Weekend in New York
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Faber & Faber The Confidential Clerk
Book SynopsisThe Confidential Clerk was first produced at the Edinburgh Festival in the summer of 1953.''The dialogue of The Confidential Clerk has a precision and a lightly felt rhythm unmatched in the writing of any contemporary dramatist.'' Times Literary Supplement''A triumph of dramatic skill: the handling of the two levels of the play is masterly and Eliot''s verse registers its greatest achievement on the stage - passages of great lyrical beauty are incorporated into the dialogue.'' Spectator
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Faber & Faber 100 Poems By 100 Poets
Book Synopsis100 Poems by 100 Poets will serve both to introduce the diffident to the finest poetry in the English language, and to reward the devoted with its challenging choices and delightful surprises.
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Faber & Faber The Dwarfs
Book SynopsisHarold Pinter''s first and only novel, written in the early 1950s before he began writing plays. The novel is set in post-war London''s East End, a landscape of bomb-sites, and describes the lives of four young Londoners whose energy and humour lift them above the routine austerity of the time.
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Faber & Faber Amys View
Book SynopsisIt is 1979. Esme Allen is a well-known West End actress at just the moment when the West End is ceasing to offer actors a regular way of life. The visit of her young daughter, Amy, with a new boyfriend sets in train a series of events which only find their shape eighteen years later. A generational play about the long term struggle between a strong mother and her loving daughter, Amy''s View mixes love, death and the theatre in a way which is both heady and original.
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Faber & Faber Plays for Children
Book SynopsisA collection of four plays for children, covering topics from Victorian weavers to European folklore and magic. These plays, originally commissioned and performed by professional children''s theatre groups, are perfect for use in schools, either for performance or for Key Stage 2 reading and literacy. Includes:Indigo Mill by Nick FisherBody Talk by Andy RashleighOdessa and the Magic Goat by John AgardLittle Victories by Shaun Prendergast
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Faber & Faber The Oldest Girl in the World
Book SynopsisIn the tradition of the great and enduring writers for children, Carol Ann Duffy creates a living and breathing world, imaginatively self-sufficient, yet recognisable as one that hovers at the edges of our dreams and nightmares. In her second collection for children, we are trained by the oldest girl in the world to be alert to every one of our senses; meet, among others, a bad princess and a king of snide; discover spells to get rid of unwanted pests; and learn that, in a world where transformation is a way of life, what we want is not always what we get.
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Faber & Faber On Film
Book SynopsisWim Wenders' body of work is among the most formidable in modern cinema: Paris Texas, Wings of Desire, The Buena Vista Social Club, The Million Dollar Hotel. And Wenders writes about cinema as passionately as he produces it. This volume collects three previously published books of Wenders' essays: Emotion Pictures, The Logic of Images, and The Act of Seeing. In them, he discusses his development as a filmmaker from the moment he picked up a camera aged 12, and offers a broader analysis of his guiding passions - rock 'n' roll, avant-garde cinema, questions of German identity, and the influence of America.
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Faber & Faber The Wagner Clan
Book SynopsisFor over a century the Wagners have presided over the Bayreuth Festival, playing host to many of the greatest and ghastliest figures in the arts and politics amidst family in-fighting and political controversy. Drawing on extensive interviews with members of the family and on both archive and recent material, Jonathan Carr presents a balanced but gripping portrait of the Wagners and their circle; a story which presents a mirror of Germany''s rise, fall and resurrection.
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Faber & Faber The Caliban Shore
Book SynopsisThe enthralling true story of a famous eighteenth-century shipwreck off the coast of Africa.Trade Review"'A wonderful book, hugely satisfying on many levels - as a survival-and-ordeal chronicle, as social history, as anthropology, and an early foray into the exotic, but most of all as an adventure' Paul Theroux"
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Faber & Faber Adventures of a Suburban Boy
Book SynopsisOffers a memoir of a suburban boy, who's creative life spent turning dreams into celluloid, and money into light.Trade Review'He has had a thrillingly interesting life all over the world - and what's more, he can write better than most novelists.' Philip Horne, Daily Telegraph; 'Contains many laugh-aloud anecdotes.' Sunday Telegraph; 'Among the best first-hand accounts of the creative process of directing films.' Scotland on Sunday
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Faber & Faber Wellingtons Smallest Victory
Book Synopsis''A first-class work of historical investigation.'' Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon and WellingtonThe extraordinary story of how one man''s obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington.''A book that should be read and pondered deeply by anyone interested even vaguely in the Napoleonic wars . . . Hofschröer''s impeccable research shows that the Iron Duke was guilty of self-regarding pettiness, obsessive vanity, spin-doctoring and a shameful vendetta against a man whose only crime was to tell the truth.'' Daily Express''Mightily impressive.'' Richard Holmes, author of Redcoat''This important book reveals what happens when a loyal subject runs up against an establishment that will stop at nothing to suppress the truth.'' GuardianTrade Review"'Remarkable... a book that should be pondered deeply by anyone interested even vaguely in the Napoleonic wars.' Daily Express 'This important book reveals what happens when a loyal subject runs up against an establishment that will stop at nothing to suppress the truth.' Guardian"
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Faber & Faber The Faber Pocket Guide to Greek and Roman Drama
Book SynopsisAn essential, refreshingly accessible guide to Greek and Roman drama containing entries for forty plays by all the major dramatists in the classical world - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence and Seneca.Features include:Playwright biographiesSynopses and detailed commentaryAdvice on the best translations availableA survey of the ancient theatre and its social and political background.Written by John Burgess, freelance director and former Head of New Writing at the National Theatre, this book is an indispensable resource for the theatregoer, student and general reader.
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Faber & Faber Walking into the Night
Book SynopsisFor twenty years Christian Benediktsson has led an orderly but demanding life as butler to the media magnate William Randolph Hearst, famously the inspiration for Citizen Kane, in his San Simeon castle. But Christian''s own private world is filled with regret - for a family abandoned, a reckless affair and a tragic death, followed hard by financial downfall that prompted his profound retreat from life. But when one day Christian''s buried past threatens to catch up with him, a heart-rending journey of self-discovery into lost love begins.Trade Review"'With Walking into the Night, Olaf Olafsson joins Kazuo Ishiguro and P.G. Wodehouse as a creator of great literary butlers.' Daily Telegraph 'An elegant and moving novel.' Independent"
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Faber & Faber Rousseaus Dog
Book SynopsisJean-Jacques Rousseau - philosopher, novelist, composer, educationist, political provocateur - was on the run. In Rousseau's Dog, David Edmonds and John Eidinow bring their narrative verve to the bitter quarrel that turned these two Enlightenment giants into mortal foes.Trade Review"'Wonderfully readable and absorbing... A highly enjoyable book, richly informative and entertaining, written with easy lucidity and obvious relish.' A. C. Grayling, Literary Review"
£12.34
Faber & Faber Keith Douglas Poet to Poet
Book SynopsisIn this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature.Keith Douglas (1920-1944) began writing when he was at school at Christ''s Hospital School, London, continued at Oxford, and thereafter in the army and in the Middle East. By the time he was killed in Normandy, aged only twenty-four, in June 1944, he had achieved a body of work that singled him out as the most brilliant and promising English poet of the Second World War. The present pioneering selection of Keith Douglas''s work, by Ted Hughes, was first published in 1964.
£9.49
Faber & Faber Imposture Byron Trilogy
Book SynopsisThree years after Lord Byron dismissed him from his service, Dr John Polidori has fallen on hard times. And then a young woman mistakes the doctor for the poet. As the pair fall in love, Polidori knows that he can only emerge from Byron''s shadow if he confesses his true identity to the deluded girl; but was it only Byron''s shadow that led her to love him in the first place? And a ghost story, The Vampyre, is published under Byron''s name, but will the truth of the matter be uncovered?
£8.54
