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Faber & Faber Dunkirk
Book SynopsisChristopher Nolan's previous films have reflected the uncertainties of the twentieth-first century. With Dunkirk, Nolan has gone back into the past and brought to life one of the momentous events of the twentieth-century the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk, telling the tale by land, sea, and sky.Dunkirk opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea, they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in.The film features a prestigious cast, including Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, and newcomer Fionn Whitehead, with Mark Rylance and Tom Hardy.The screenplay is accompanied by a conversation about the film between Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan,as well as selected storyboards.
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Faber & Faber Cahokia Jazz
Book SynopsisUtterly immersive' SpectatorThrilling' Financial TimesUnlike anything else you will read this year' Daily Express A classic of alternative history' Observer A delight' Sunday TelegraphA Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman and Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the bestselling author of Golden Hill.In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper.It's 1922, and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times. But in this 1922, things are a little different. Beside the Mississippi, the ancient city of Cahokia lives on a teeming industrial metropolis, conta
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Faber & Faber City Without Stars
Book SynopsisThe epic second novel from the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger-shortlisted and Shamus-nominated author of Fever CityMexico Ciudad Real is in crisis: the economy is in meltdown, a new war between rival cartels is erupting, and a serial killer is murdering hundreds of female workers. Fuentes, the detective in charge of the investigation, suspects that most of his colleagues are on the payroll of his chief suspect, narco kingpin, El Santo. If he's going to stop the killings, he has to convince fiery union activist, Pilar, to ignore all her instincts and work with him. But in a city eclipsed by murder, madness and magic, can she really afford to trust him?
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Faber & Faber Enter Fleeing
Book SynopsisExhilarating fourth collection of poems from the ''intriguing, funny, prophetic'' man of letters Mark Ford.
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Faber & Faber Writing a Novel
Book SynopsisA novel is a relationship, a place outside of time where both reader and writer are challenged and validated, stretched and rewarded. Richard Skinner believes it is your duty as a novelist to bring your whole self to the page; to find your story, not force it; to meet your reader in a spirit of openness. In Writing a Novel he offers up frameworks, strategies and stimuli to help you meet that duty, drawingon his deep experience as one of the UK's leading creative writing teachers. He covers the essentials narrators, character, setting with charm and rigour. But Writing a Novel is not a set of instructions: it is a way of thinking, a conversation, a relationship in itself.
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Faber & Faber Your House Will Pay
Book SynopsisTwo families. One desperate to remember, the other to forget.Will the truth burn them both?''Masterful.'' Ruth Ware''A smart, sensitive page-turner.'' Daily MailWINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE 2020Grace Park and Shawn Mathews share a city, but seemingly little else. Coming from different generations and very different communities, their paths wouldn''t normally cross at all. As Grace battles confusion over her elder sister''s estrangement from their Korean-immigrant parents, Shawn tries to help his cousin Ray readjust to life on the outside after years spent in prison.But something in their past links these two families. As the city around them threatens to spark into violence, echoing events from their past, the lives of Grace and Shawn are set to collide in ways which will change them all forever.Beautifully written, and mar
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Faber & Faber Calm Down Zebra
Book SynopsisA celebration of colours and patterns from the pair that brought you bestseller NOT YET, ZEBRA.Annie said to the animals, Let's help baby Joe.He's learning his colours, which he doesn't yet know.I'll paint pictures of you please line up for me.If I use the right colours then Joe will soon see.Everyone's favourite, enthusiastic zebra is back, eager to get in on the act as Annie tries to teach her little brother about colours. But although things don't turn out quite the way she imagines, together they make the world a brighter and more beautiful place!''A joy to read aloud . . . guaranteed to win the hearts of all little mischief-makers.'' Lancashire Post
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Faber & Faber Salt Water Faber Poetry
Book SynopsisSalt Water is Andrew Motion''s most ambitious collection, yet also his most accessible. The first part refines the narrative and lyric skills for which he is well-known, combining intense personal concerns with themes which are more expansive and social. Family and loved ones appear in the company of historical and legendary figures; private dramas raise large general issues. But there is concentration as well as diversity. From the Orford Merman of the title poem, to an elegy written for a friend who died on the Marchioness, to the vivid prose meditation of the second part, written when Andrew Motion retraced the voyage that John Keats made by sea from London to Naples in the autumn of 1820, the book insistently and brilliantly elaborates images of water. It is the element which facilitates a rich interweaving of past and present, of re-enacted experience and the poignant suspension of the lived-in moment.
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Faber & Faber The Sun the Moon and the Stars
Book SynopsisThis is bout those menwho stripped him of his crown,treated that charcoal skin like concrete.Peace will only comewhen I make em come undone.
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Faber & Faber Shedding a Skin
Book SynopsisSometimes you crack.Sometimes you didn't mean to yell that.Sometimes you have to lay low until you've figured it outAnd sometimes, sometimes you have to hibernate until you've healed.This is a new day.Shedding a Skin is a story for our times. It's a play about finding kindness in unexpected places; about understanding what our elders can teach us; it's new skin honouring old. It's a play about joy, healing and protest.Amanda Wilkin's Shedding a Skin is the 2020 winner of Soho Theatre's acclaimed Verity Bargate Award. The play premiered at Soho Theatre, London, in June 2021.
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Faber & Faber Unapologetic Expression
Book SynopsisA CLASH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A lively, subversive history of the new UK jazz wave, encapsulating its revolutionary spirit and tracing its foundations to birth of the genre itself.''Not solely a book about jazz, or even a nascent cultural shift; it's a record of a pivotal moment in UK history.'' BIG ISSUEBy the end of the last century, jazz music was considered by many to be obsolete and uncool, a genre appreciated only by out of touch white men with deeply questionable taste. And yet, by 2019, a new generation of UK jazz musicians was selling out major venues and appearing on festival line-ups around the world. How has UK jazz rehabilitated its image so totally in twenty-five years? And how did it ever become uncool in the first place?Reaching back to the roots of jazz as the unapologetic expression' of oppressed peoples, shaped by the forces of slavery, imperialism and globalisation, Andre Marmot places this new wave within the wider context of a divided, postcolonial Britain navigating its identity in a new world order. These artists have crafted a sound which reflects the nation as it is today a sound connected to the very origins of jazz itself.Drawing on eighty-six interviews with key architects of this jazz renaissance and those who came before them from Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia and Moses Boyd to Gilles Peterson, Courtney Pine and Cleveland Watkiss Unapologetic Expression captures the radical spirit of a vital British musical movement.''A breathless run through of an inspiring era in British music, Unapologetic Expression contains deft character sketches and vivid memories, pausing to nail ineffable moments from recording sessions and gigs. Andre Marmot's role as an insider . . . grants the book a degree of intimacy other writers may have lacked.''CLASH
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Faber & Faber Sleeping on Islands
Book SynopsisAndrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years.Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career. It takes us from scenes of a teenage home-life coloured by tragedy and silence where writing was as much a refuge as an assertion to the excruciations of early public appearances, to the decade he spent as Poet Laureate, promoting and ensuring the central place of poetry in a nation's character. Along the way, we hear about the risks and sacrifices involved, as well as the difficulties of sustaining a commitment to writing within a helix of other obligations. We see in close-up the significance of Motion's formative relationship with W. H. Auden and his subsequent friendship with Philip Larkin. And during his time as Laureate, we witness memorable encounters with Royalty and Prime Ministers, and discover the costs and complications that accompany such a high-profile role.
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Faber & Faber My Heavenly Favourite
Book SynopsisSENSATIONAL WINNERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE''It''s been a long time since a novel has destroyed me like this . . . One of the boldest writers alive today.'' Max Porter''A novel of exquisite discomfort and delicious poetry . . . Made me laugh and gasp . . . I''m in awe.'' Brandon Taylor''Rejuvenating, glorious, brilliant. A book about obsession with prose that obsessed me from the first line.'' Daisy JohnsonIn the tempestuous summer of 2005, a local veterinarian becomes enraptured by a 14-year-old farmer's daughter his favourite' as he tends her father's cows. This deeply troubled soul is our narrator: a man who believes he offers the object of his love a tantalizing path out of the constrictions of her conservative rural life, a chance to escape to a world of fantasy. But the obsessive reliance he cultivates builds into a terrifying trap, with a crime and confession at the heart of it that threatens to rip their small c
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Faber & Faber The Clinic
Book SynopsisI've given up on fighting for change.That's a strange, imperfect illusion that allowed confusion to reign in my life.I took a knife to its neck and sliced it open.When a passionate activist, Wunmi, is invited into a middle-class Black family's home, a fire is lit. The family members have always seen themselves as pillars of society: they are charity workers, therapists and politicians. But as they begin to realise what Wunmi really represents, their certainty begins to crumble, the tension rises and a suffocating ash starts to fill the air. Full of forensic fury and incandescent poetry, Dipo Baruwa-Etti's fiercely political new play opened at the Almeida Theatre, London, in September 2022.
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Faber & Faber Platform Seven
Book SynopsisAS SEEN ON ITVXOVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLDThe perfect thriller.' StylistScarily plausible . . . desperately moving.' GuardianGripping.' Good HousekeepingThe novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November morning is confident he's alone. As he sits on the metal bench at the far end of the platform it is clear his choice is strategic he's as far away from the night staff as he can get.What the man doesn't realise is that he has company. Lisa Evans knows what he has decided. She knows what he is about to do as she tries and fails to stop him walking to the platform edge.Two deaths on Platform Seven. Two fatalities in eighteen months - surely they're connected?No one is more desperate to understand what
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Faber & Faber Omeros
Book SynopsisA poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement - and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.
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Faber & Faber T S Eliot and Prejudice
Book SynopsisThis is a study of the poetry of T.S. Eliot. The author sets out to discover just how his poetry, charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism and prissiness invites or incites prejudice.
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Faber & Faber Naked and Other Screenplays
Book SynopsisThree screenplays by Mike Leigh. Naked presents a bleak picture of urban society, Life is Sweet is a gentle comedy in which the pain of everyday life is borne with a wry smile, and High Hopes is a comedy of class-ridden life in contemporary Britain.
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Faber & Faber Quartet Equally Divided Faber Plays
Book SynopsisThis volume contains two plays by one of Britain''s finest playwrights. In Quartet Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred are in a home for retired opera singers. Each year, on 10 October, there is a concert to celebrate Verdi''s birthday. Jean, who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva and refuses to sing. But the show must go on . . .Equally Divided begins shortly after the funeral of Edith and Renata''s mother. Edith, severe, embattled, unmarried, has sacrificed her life to nurse the bedridden old woman. Renata, glamorous and married several times, has spent her life doing what she pleases. When the contents of the will are made known, childhood rivalries re-emerge and the result is a moral tale both powerful and comic.
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Faber & Faber Nick Dear Plays 1 Art of Success In the Ruins
Book SynopsisThis first collection of Nick Dear''s work for the stage displays the breadth and achievement of one of the most talented and inventive dramatists writing in Britain today. The volume contains two of his re-workings of eighteenth-century history, The Art of Success and In the Ruins, his intelligent and original political parable Zenobia and his chilling adaptation of Henry James''s The Turn of the Screw.
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Faber & Faber Ariels Gift Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath and the Story
Book SynopsisErica Wagner provides a comprehensive guide to the poems that must constitute one of the most extraordinary and powerful volumes published in the last century. When Ted Hughes''s Birthday Letters was published in 1998, it was greeted with astonishment and acclaim. Few suspected that Ted Hughes had been at work, for a quarter of a century, on a cycle of poems addressed almost entirely to his first wife, the American poet Sylvia Plath. In Ariel''s Gift, Erica Wagner offers a commentary on the poems, pointing the reader towards the events that shaped them, and, crucially, showing how they draw upon Plath''s own work.
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Faber & Faber Love Me
Book SynopsisMeet Larry Wyler, a man with a big heart, broad shoulders and some very odd baggage. After the runaway success of his début novel, ''Spacious Skies'', Larry decides to leave small-town life and his wife Iris, and move to Manhattan. But with his marriage in pieces and his second novel a flop, he suddenly finds himself struck down with a bad case of writer''s block . . .Cue his new incarnation as the newspaper columnist ''Mr Blue'', agony uncle to the lonely and frustrated. It may not be great literature, but perhaps the simple act of writing once again will help get Larry back on track.Trade Review"'There's no need to ask me. I do; I already love Garrison Keillor.' Guardian 'Success, sex, failure and devotion are the central themes of Garrison Keillor's latest novel... everything is tied together by the author's dry wit - and more than the occasional belly laugh.' Metro London 'Both funny and beautiful.' Independent"
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Faber & Faber Early Poems and Juvenilia
Book SynopsisPhilip Larkin was one of the most admired and loved English poets of the twentieth century. His Collected Poems has become essential reading on any bookshelf, covering his four published volumes and late work. But Larkin was a prolific writer in his youth, and wrote over two hundred and fifty poems in the years leading up to his first collection. Drawing on the pamphlets, manuscripts and workbooks from 1938 to 1946-46, the Early Poems reveals, for the first time, the formative writings and literary origins of this most gifted of poets.Trade Review"'This tenderly observant poet writes clearly, rhythmically, and thoughtfully about what all of us can understand.' John Betjeman"
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Faber & Faber Making Love to Marilyn Monroe The Faber Book of
Book SynopsisMaking Love to Marilyn Monroe: The Faber Book of Blue Verse presents a variety of candidly sexual verse through the centuries from Catullus and Chaucer to modern poets like T.S. Eliot, Kingsley Amis, Seamus Heaney, James Fenton, Kit Wright, Craig Raine and Wendy Cope. Here the bawdy goes hand in hand with emotional, intellectual, confessional, and satirical touching tributes to that perennially fascinating subject - sex.
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Faber & Faber The Home Corner
Book SynopsisNineteen-year-old Luisa McKenzie has failed her Scottish Highers and finds herself back at primary school - working as a teaching assistant, a role she never envisaged or wanted. Her old friends have all left town and she spends her days perched in the classroom''s Home Corner, answering questions about God and Death and the colour of the sky.Increasingly disillusioned and reflecting on paths not taken, Luisa begins to ask her own questions about life and the so-called adult world. As her end-of-year review looms, it looks like she may not even be able to hold down this unsatisfactory job much longer and, with the discovery of an uncomfortable secret, her take on reality slowly begins to unravel . . .The Home Corner is a funny, tender novel about feeling adrift when facing the ''real world'' for the first time. It explores the way we create our own identities in the light of other people''s, and queries the distinctions that are made between the absent and theTrade ReviewRuth Thomas is a brilliant chronicler and observer of the hum-drumness of everyday life and this is a wonderfully funny and poignant story about how unsettling the transition from childhood to adulthood can be. -- Carla McKay Daily Mail Thomas writes Luisa's story with a deft touch and a subtle lyricism ... [her] portrayal of the struggles and anxieties of late-adolescence are truly excellent and the empathy with which the story is treated create a warm, engrossing novel. -- Daniel Davies The Skinny This is no teenage coming-of-age novel but a reckoning of the space each of us occupies in the adult world ... The Home Corner has the layered feel and texture of a short story but the impetus of an intriguing novel. There's a self-deprecating humour and a subtle sadness in what passes for ordinary life. As a philosophical meditation on the paths not taken, it excels. Sunday Business Post
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Faber & Faber Jonathan Swift 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.Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin, of English parents, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. London-based for many years, and a noted satirist during the reign of Queen Anne, he returned to Dublin in 1713 as Dean of St. Patrick''s Cathedral. Gulliver''s Travels appeared in 1726. Derek Mahon was born in Belfast in 1941, studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and has held journalistic and academic appointments in London and New York. He has received numerous awards including a Lannan Award and the Scot Moncrieff Translation Prize. His Collected Poems was published in 1999.
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Faber & Faber Bryony Lavery Plays 1 A Wedding Story Frozen
Book SynopsisA Wedding Story''A spry if wintry comedy about a lesbian, a wedding-day bonk, and a mother who contracts Alzheimer''s... It dares to find failure and frivolity (a sure sign of dramatic honesty) in the face of domestic hell. Funny, frank and churning by turns, this struck me as a lyrical new play about the unlyrical business of coping when real life knocks on the door.'' Daily ExpressFrozen Winner of the TMA Best New Play award and Eileen Anderson Central Television Award for Best Play.''Bryony Lavery''s big, brave, compassionate play about grief, revenge, forgiveness and bearing the unbearable.'' Guardian''A major play... thrilling, humane and timely.'' The Times''Consistently surprising and even bravely comic... The almost thriller-like promise of the play''s climactic confrontation is like a time-bomb ticking in the back of your head. IndependentIllyriaA young war reporter gets abducted and finds hersTrade Review"'Bryony Lavery's big, brave, compassionate play about grief, revenge, forgiveness and bearing the unbearable.' Guardian Illyria: A young war reporter gets abducted and finds herself in the midst of a cycle of violence, in a land crippled by hate. More Light: 'Triumphant... A startlingly metaphorical play about the creation of art.' Independent"
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Faber & Faber The Permanent Way
Book SynopsisIn 1991, before an election they did not expect to win, the Conservative government made a fateful decision to privatize the railways. As a result, the taxpayer subsidizes rail more lavishly then ever before. In The Permanent Way, David Hare, working with actors from the Out of Joint Company, tells the intricate, madcap story of a dream gone sour, by gathering together the first-hand accounts of those most intimately involved - from every level of the system.
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Faber & Faber Far North
Book SynopsisEvery day I buckle on my guns and go out to patrol this dingy city.Out on the far northern border of a failed state, Makepeace patrols the ruins of a dying city and tries to keep its unruly inhabitants in check. Into this cold, isolated world comes evidence that life is flourishing elsewhere - a refugee from the vast emptiness of forest, whose existence inspires Makepeace to take to the road to reconnect with human society. What Makepeace finds is a world unravelling, stockaded villages enforcing a rough and uncertain justice, mysterious slave camps labouring to harness the little understood technologies of a vanished civilization. But Makepeace''s journey also leads to unexpected human contact, tenderness, and the dark secrets behind this frozen world.FAR NORTH leads the reader on a quest through an unforgettable arctic landscape, from humanity''s origins to its likely end. Bleak, haunting, spare - and yet ultimately hopeful, the novel
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Faber & Faber The End of the Poem Oxford Lectures
Book SynopsisThe End of the Poem contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004. Rather than individual and discrete performances, these lectures form a dazzling set of variations around the sustained theme of ''the end of the poem''. Each lecture explores a different sense of an ending: whether a poem can ever be a free-standing structure, read and written in isolation from other poems; whether a poem''s line-endings are forms of closure (and where this might leave the poem in prose); whether the poem is completed only with the reader''s act of understanding; whether revision brings a poem nearer to its ideal ending (when does a poet know when a poem has come to an end?); what is the right true end of poetry, and is the end of the poem the beginning of criticism, including an Arnoldian ''criticism of life''?
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Faber & Faber Blood Rain Aurelio Zen 07
Book SynopsisSpellbinding . . . superb.' WASHINGTON POSTEmotionally gripping and defiantly original.' ITALIAN MYSTERIESAN AURELIO ZEN MYSTERYZen finally receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life: his next posting to Sicily.The gruesome discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse sealed in a railway wagon marks the beginning of Zen''s most difficult and dangerous murder case. And he will need all his cunning and skill to survive in a world where unwritten rules are enforced with ruthless violence, where one false step can prove fatal, and where the truth must be paid for in blood.By far the darkest of Dibdin's remarkable mysteries.' 5* reader review The end leaves you gasping.' 5* reader reviewI absolutely loved this book.' 5* reader reviewPRAISE FOR MICHAEL DIBDIN AND THE INSPECTOR ZEN SERIES:He wrote with real fire.' IAN RANKINA maestr
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Faber & Faber The Aliens
Book SynopsisProfessional slackers and best friends KJ and Jasper spend their days talking music and Bukowski outside the back of a small coffee shop in Vermont. Seventeen-year-old Evan is eking out his summer working at the café. When he meets the two young men he is irresistibly drawn to their world of magic mushrooms, philosophical musings and great-bands-that never-were.One of the freshest voices to come out of America in recent years, Annie Baker''s gentle, engaging and deeply funny play introduces two cult heroes in the shape of KJ and Jasper, and puts modern day America under the microscope. What happened to the generation who never grew up?The Aliens opened at the Bush Theatre, London in September 2010. The play''s world premiere was held at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, New York, in April of the same year.
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Faber & Faber Alan Ayckbourn Plays 5
Book SynopsisSnake in the GrassA terrific piece - brilliant, bizarre and yet totally believable... In fact, it''s more than classic; it''s close to the top of its class. Yorkshire PostIf I Were YouA blissfully funny comedy that''s also filled with sadness, a devilishly simple theatrical idea that spins out all kinds of complex truths about human nature. Daily TelegraphLife and BethA wise, humane, funny play about the inevitability of death and the continuity of life. GuardianMy Wonderful DayA transformation happens as magical as the most magnificent pantomime transformation anyone could ever imagine... the playwright dissolves the paraphernalia of our adult selves and uncovers that space inside each of us that is still the child we once were. ObserverLife of RileyAs perceptive as ever... Ayckbourn has once again achieved a satisfyingly rich, tragi-comic complexity. Daily TelegrapTrade Review"Snake in the Grass": "A terrific piece - brilliant, bizarre and yet totally believable ...In fact, it's more than classic; it's close to the top of its class". ("Yorkshire Post"). "If I Were You": "A blissfully funny comedy that's also filled with sadness, a devilishly simple theatrical idea that spins out all kinds of complex truths about human nature". ("Daily Telegraph"). "Life and Beth": "A wise, humane, funny play about the inevitability of death and the continuity of life". ("Guardian"). "My Wonderful Day": "A transformation happens as magical as the most magnificent pantomime transformation anyone could ever imagine ...the playwright dissolves the paraphernalia of our adult selves and uncovers that space inside each of us that is still the child we once were". ("Observer"). "Life of Riley": "As perceptive as ever ...Ayckbourn has once again achieved a satisfyingly rich, tragi-comic complexity". ("Daily Telegraph").
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Faber & Faber Never Let Me Go Screenplay
Book SynopsisIn his highly acclaimed novel Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day) created a remarkable story of love, loss and hidden truths. In it he posed the fundamental question: What makes us human? Now director Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo), writer Alex Garland and DNA Films bring Ishiguro''s hauntingly poignant and emotional story to the screen. Kathy (Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan, An Education), Tommy (Andrew Garfield, Boy A, Red Riding) and Ruth (Oscar nominee Keira Knightley, Pride & Prejudice, Atonement) live in a world and a time that feel familiar to us, but are not quite like anything we know. They spend their childhood at Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. When they leave the shelter of the school and the terrible truth of their fate is revealed to them, they must also confront the deep feelings of love, jealousy and betrayal that threaten to pull them apart.
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Faber & Faber Nonsense
Book SynopsisChristopher Reid''s new collection is a quartet of works for voice, opening with the brisk and brightly coloured monologue of Professor Winterthorn - recently widowed, soon to be retired, who decides on impulse to attend a conference (on ''Nonsense and the Pursuit of Futility as strategies...'') in California. He is a mordant observer, alert to the anomie of modern displacement - taxis, lifts, airports, lounges, hotel rooms - whose thin air seems at one with the loose change of widowhood, the having nowhere really to go. But adventure lies ahead, and sunshine, and Winterthorn is debonair if undeceived about the deceptions of grief. His strange ride ends on a note of recovery, with the world suddenly in focus again and brimming before him.
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Faber & Faber Trespassers
Book SynopsisA book about being an outsider looking in, a trespasser in Ireland and in other countries - France, Italy in the late 1950s, the West Coast during the turbulent sixties - and also in other lives, the permanent temptation of the creative writer.
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Faber & Faber The Judas Kiss
Book SynopsisOscar Wilde''s philosophy leads him on a path to destruction. The Judas Kiss describes two pivotal moments: the day Wilde decides to stay in England and face imprisonment, and the night when the lover for whom he risked everything betrays him.With a burning sense of outrage, David Hare presents the consequences of an uncompromisingly moral position in a world defined by fear and conformity.Originally produced in the West End and on Broadway, this new edition coincides with a 2012 revival.''Superbly written... Hare has taken a history and pieced it together with heroic grace... Vastly rich, sophisticated and heartbreaking.'' Time Out, New York
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Faber & Faber Rebecca Lenkiewicz Plays 1
Book SynopsisThe Night Season''The Night Season is unusual; no politics, no issues, no history - just a bold attempt to grapple with the messy nature of living. It''s also delightfully, rudely funny.'' Financial Times''Look out for the name Rebecca Lenkiewicz. It''s once in a blue moon that a writer gets her second-ever play staged at the National. It''s even more remarkable when you wander away at the end, walking on air.... Lenkiewicz is quite extraordinarily talented.'' Independent on SundayShoreditch Madonna''A strong absorbing work, full of passion, pathos and sly humour, set in the hip art scene of London''s East End... There is a rare combination of pain, wit and originality in Lenkiewicz''s writing.'' Daily TelegraphHer Naked Skin''It is shocking to think that this is the first full-length work by a woman to be seen on the Olivier stage. But Lenkiewicz makes up for lost time by exploring the hunger for p
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Faber & Faber The Old Vic
Book SynopsisThe Old Vic, one of the world''s great theatres, opened in 1818 with rowdy melodrama and continued with Edmund Kean in Richard III howled down by the audience. One impresario, among the first of thirteen to go bankrupt there, fled to Milan and ran La Scala. In 1848 a chorus girl tried to murder the leading lady. In 1870 the Vic became a music hall, then a temperance tavern and, from 1912, under Lilian Baylis, both an opera house and the home of Shakespeare. By the 1930s great actors were happy to go there for a pittance - John Gielgud, Charles Laughton, Peggy Ashcroft, and Laurence Olivier. The Vic considered itself a national theatre in all but name.After the second world war the Royal Ballet and the English National Opera both sprang from the Vic, and the National Theatre, at last established in 1963 under Olivier, made its first home there. In 1980 the Vic was saved from becoming a bingo hall by a generous Toronto businessman. Since 2004 Kevin Spacey, Hollywood act
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Faber & Faber This Rare Spirit
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive biography of this undervalued writer, who was considered 'far and away the best living woman poet' in her day.
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Faber & Faber Playing With Water
Book Synopsis''One June day in 1953 aged twelve I sat in a classroom and drew a map.'' The map that the young Hamilton-Paterson drew was of a tropical island, and it prefigured with uncanny accuracy the Philippine island on which, thirty years later, he would spend a full third of each year, entirely alone. It had a coral strand, a field of grass, vertical volcanic cliffs and no water. He survived by fishing and by drinking rainwater. This is a book about a remarkable and self-sufficient writer''s ''desire to be lost'', and the journey of a conventionally educated Englishman to an island on the far side of the world that aroused in him a feeling of discovering a place he always knew. Hamilton-Paterson writes with incomparable skill about the hard beauty of the sea, of coral reefs and the animals that live in them, and about the fishermen who eke a living among the labyrinth of islands that make up the Philippines.
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Faber & Faber Past Crimes
Book SynopsisIf my grandfather''s letter had stopped at the comma, I would have tossed it in the trash... I would have mentally told the old man to stick it, if it hadn''t been for the last three words. If you can...Van Shaw was raised to be a thief, but at the age of eighteen he abruptly abandoned the illicit life and joined the US Army, leaving behind Seattle and the grandfather who taught him the trade. But after ten years of estrangement, Van''s grandfather has suddenly asked him to come home. He does so, only to find his grandfather shot in the head and bleeding out on the kitchen floor.While the police focus on Van as the prime suspect, he plunges back into an underworld he had vowed never return to, putting his criminal sensibilities back to work to ferret out the attacker and unearth the shocking secret of why his grandfather called him home after so many years. But in a violent, high-stakes world where the lines between right and wrong are easily blurred, Van find
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Faber & Faber Kitty Peck and the Daughter of Sorrow
Book SynopsisSummer 1881: the streets of Limehouse are thick with opium... and menace. At eighteen Kitty Peck has inherited Paradise, a sprawling criminal empire on the banks of the Thames. Determined to do things differently to her fearsome grandmother, she now realises that the past casts a long and treacherous shadow. Haunted by a terrible secret and stalked by a criminal cabal intent on humiliation and destruction, Kitty must fight for the future of everyone she cares for...
£7.99
Faber & Faber Golden Years
Book SynopsisIn Brooklyn, New York, during November 2013, Ali Eskandarian was murdered alongside two members of his band the Yellow Dogs. In the months leading up to this terrible event, Ali had been in correspondence with a publisher, about a semi-autobiographical novel he had written. Golden Years is that book, and tells the story of a group of young Iranian musicians in Brooklyn who are hungry and poor, high and hopping from bed to bed. A fictional document from a life cut tragically short, Golden Years is the story of youth, hope and beat psychosis.
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Faber & Faber Wilde Lake
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE eDUNNIT AARD''Intriguing premise, stunning reveal, irresistible read.'' VAL McDERMID ''A satisfying mystery'' ALEX MARWOOD''Engrossing, suspenseful and substantial.'' SCOTT TUROW In an acclaimed modern twist on To Kill a Mockingbird, Laura Lippman once again proves herself to be one of crime writing''s most thrilling reads.Luisa Brant has just been elected State''s Attorney, a job her revered father once held, and is prosecuting her first murder, by a homeless man on a woman to whom he had seemingly no connection. However, as Luisa investigates, she is startled to learn that this murder might have its roots in a violent event in the past involving her own family. And that maybe no one - her precious father, her brother, her late mother - is quite who she thought. .
£7.19
Faber & Faber A Bird in Winter
Book SynopsisOVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLDPsychologically acute. Terrific.' Daily MailA page-turning read. Kept me reading well past bedtime!' VAL McDERMID Pacey and propulsive.' GuardianA rare combination of elegance and unbelievable tension . . . Utterly brilliant.' Joanna CannonGripping.' Marie ClaireThe latest from the Number One Sunday Times Bestselling author Louise DoughtyBird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham the next, she's walking out on her job, her home, her life. It's a day she thought might come, one she's prepared for. But nothing could prepare her for what will happen next. As Bird tries to work out who exactly is on her trail, she must also decide who if anyone she can trust. Is her greatest fear that she will be hunted down, or that she will never be found?Readers are gripped by A
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Faber & Faber A Bird in Winter Export Edition
Book Synopsis**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLD'Louise Doughty leads her unnerved readers into dark territory.' HILARY MANTEL'Doughty is a brilliant storyteller who knows how to build suspense to breaking point.' The TimesThe latest from the writer of BBC smash hit drama Crossfire, and Number One Sunday Times Bestseller Louise DoughtyBird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, she's walking out on her job, her home, her life. It's a day she thought might come, and one she's prepared for - but nothing could prepare her for what will happen next. As she flees north using multiple disguises, Bird has to work out who exactly is on her trail, and who - if anyone - she can trust. Like many people, she has fantasised about escape for a long time, but now it's actually happening. Is her greatest fear that she will be hunted down, or that she will never be found?
£14.24
Faber & Faber The Nothing
Book SynopsisThe Nothing is Hanif Kureishi's powerful new work: a tense and captivating exploration of lust, helplessness, and deception.
£9.49
