Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber The Stories You Tell
Book Synopsis''Roxane Weary [is] a wonderful character. Lepionka is such an assured writer, with complete narrative authority from the first line.'' Sophie HannahKristen Lepionka and Roxane Weary are the best things to happen to the genre in years.' Laura Lippman, author of SunburnA 3am phone call is never good newsPrivate investigator Roxane Weary receives a panicked call from her brother, Andrew: his one-time fling, Addison, who turned up at his apartment the night before drunk, bloodied and hysterical, has gone missing. As police suspicion quickly falls on her brother, Roxane knows she is the only person who believes him, she just has to figure out what happened. Through tracking Addison's digital footprint she goes deeper and deeper into the events preceding her disappearance. But, as Roxane struggles to distinguish the truth from the stories people tell about themselves online, the case takes another dramatic t
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Faber & Faber In Lipstick
Book SynopsisThings don''t change no matter how much you want them to. You try, you run away, you make things new but they''re not. It''s just the same old shit covered in lipstick.Maud, a woman on the run from her damaged past, has sheltered Cynthia from the outside world for the last few years. But while Cynthia is a recluse, living for their dressing-up box, their fairy tales and Shirley Bassey on YouTube, Maud meets Dennis, a security guard at her office. As Cynthia clings, Maud begins to dream of escaping their isolated and claustrophobic world. Annie Jenkins'' debut play In Lipstick gives savage, funny and heartfelt voice to two women trapped in a fractured city, not quite knowing how to love each other.
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Faber & Faber Uncle Vanya
Book SynopsisRussia, late summer at the close of the nineteenth century. Vanya and his niece Sonya have worked for years to manage the country estate. Into this ordered and regular household come two new visitors, Sonya''s father, an irritable professor, and his young wife Elena who, in the space of a few months, cause chaos, one by their selfishness, and the other by their sexual allure. Between them, they manage to have most of the inhabitants questioning their purpose in life, their happiness and, at times, their sanity.David Hare''s version of Anton Chekhov''s Uncle Vanya opens at Theatre Royal Bath in July 2019.
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Faber & Faber The False Servant
Book SynopsisAre you really surprised to discover that a woman might have a mind of her own?When Lélio thinks he can ditch and cash in on the rich woman he has promised to marry, in order to become the husband of an even wealthier girl from Paris', he enlists the help of his attractive new friend, the Chevalier.What he doesn't know is that the Chevalier is none other than this same girl from Paris' disguised as a man, and that her project is to publicly expose the depths of his sexual cynicism.A self-declared modern', Marivaux is a pioneer in the exploration of human feeling, asking in this play not only what do we hide from others? - but what are we hiding from ourselves?Martin Crimp's version of Pierre Marivaux's The False Servant received its premiere at the National Theatre, London, in 2004 and was revived at the Orange Tree Theatre, London, in June 2022. Marivaux's scepticism, irony and fascination with money and sex make him seem peculi
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Faber & Faber Quartet
Book Synopsis*WINNER OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY STORYTELLING AWARD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2023*The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer.''Fabulous.'' Sunday Times ''A rare gift.'' Financial Times ''Passionate ... Vivid ... Timely.'' Telegraph ''Readable and inspiring.'' Guardian ''Compelling ... Ambitious ... Poignant.'' Spectator ''Magnificent.'' Kate Mosse ''Riveting.'' Antonia Fraser ''A breath of fresh air.'' Kate Molleson ''Fascinating.'' Alexandra Harris ''Wonderful.'' Claire Tomalin ''Splendid.'' Miranda Seymour ''Remarkable.'' Fiona Maddocks ''Pioneering.'' Andrew Motion ''Brilliant'' Helen PankhurstEthel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian
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Faber & Faber Three Revolutions
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Faber & Faber Everything We Do is Music
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Faber & Faber Weirdo
Book SynopsisTHE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING COMEDIAN, WRITER AND ACTOR SARA PASCOE''Moving and bittersweet and clever . . . I love it.'' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH''Hilarious and heartbreaking at every sentence.'' CARIAD LLOYD''Quietly profound and laughing-in-public funny.'' CAITLIN MORAN''A tragicomic masterpiece.'' DAISY BUCHANAN''A deep meditation on how it feels to be lost - in your relationship, your family, your job and even your own mind.'' ELIZABETH DAY''Funny and deeply relatable.'' GUARDIAN''A tremendously exciting voice.'' THE TIMES''An incredible read.'' AISLING BEA''I loved every page.'' NATHAN FILERI USED TO THINK MY MUM COULD SEE ME THROUGH THE CATDeep in Essex and her own thoughts, Sophie had a feeling something was going to happen and then it did. Chris has entered the pub and re-entered her life after Sophie had finally stopped thinking about him and regretting what she'd done.<
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Faber & Faber Bad Panda Mites Camera Action
Book SynopsisThe third hilarious adventure featuring loveable Lin, everyone''s favourite Bad Panda.A documentary crew have come to the zoo, to film every day life with the animals. The only thing is that the reality is a bit boring so they ship in some animal actors. Lin and her best friend Fu are less than impressed with the prancing lion that wants to take centre stage. And the smaller animals in the zoo, the mites, are fed up of being overlooked. It''s time to unleash some bad pandaness! Insects and pandas unite to create an authentic show about real zoo life that promises to be anything but boring!
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Faber & Faber The House of Broken Bricks
Book Synopsis''An almanac for the heart.'' EVIE WOODS, author of The Lost Bookshop''Haunting prose that cracks the English pastoral novel and lets the darkness in. A pleasure to read.''SARAH MOSS, author of Ghost Wall''A clever, heartbreaking, heartwarming depiction of family love, grief and the possibility of hope.''JO BROWNING WROE, author of A Terrible Kindness''Poignant and unexpected . . . brave and subtle.''EMMA HEALEY, author of Elizabeth is Missing''Wonderful . . . brave in its deep truths about loss and love.''INGRID PERSAUD, author of Love After LoveAin't nothing wrong with being broken. Nothing at all. You're like these houses, not a whole brick in em and look how strong they are.As Tess traces the sunrise over the floodplains, light that paints the house a startling crimson, she yearns for the comforting chaos of life as it once was. Instead of Max
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Faber & Faber HalfEmpty Glasses
Book SynopsisI still play to their chords.Livin within conventions.Livin within restrictions.Livin within a structure.Lettin someone write my narrative.Toye is preparing for his piano exam to get into a prestigious music school. He''s doing it for the contacts, the opportunity, the love of art. But when he notices the lack of Black British history in his school''s curriculum, he begins to question himself and the world around him. Toye wants to follow his dream. but he can''t let these institutions write his story. He decides to teach his classmates about Black cultural icons himself, but quickly discovers that not everyone wants Black history to be celebrated.Dipo Baruwa-Etti''s inspiring new play about the pressures of being young, gifted and ready to change the world premiered at Roundabout in Kingston, in a Paines Plough and Rose Theatre production, in July 2022.
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Faber & Faber The Lost Folk
Book Synopsis''An exceptionally thoughtful and beautifully written.'' Maxine Peake''Erudite, questing and endlessly fascinating . . . the book that British folk has long needed.'' Katherine May''A splendid museum full of strange and wonderful things.'' Peter RossA fresh and engaging celebration of the customs, places, objects and peoples that make up what we know as folk' in Britain.By its nature, folk is ephemeral: tricky to define, hard to preserve and even more difficult to resurrect. But folk culture is all around us; sitting in our churches, swinging from our pubs and dancing through our streets, patiently waiting to be discovered, appreciated, saved and cherished.In The Lost Folk, Lally MacBeth is on a mission to breathe new life into these rapidly disappearing customs. She reminds us that folk is for everyone, and does not belong to an imagined, halcyon past, but is constantly being drawn from everyday lives and communities. As well as looking at what folk customs have meant in Britain's past, she shines a light on what they can and should mean as we move into the future encouraging us to use the book as an inspiration, and become collectors and creators of our very own folk traditions.
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Faber & Faber Lyonesse
Book SynopsisWhat I'm asking is, is she a sympathetic heroine? Are we going to be on her side?Elaine, a once-famous actress who disappeared thirty years ago in mysterious circumstances, is ready to tell her story. She summons Kate, a young film executive, to her remote Cornish home to assist with her glorious comeback. But to keep control of the story, and how they tell it, the women must fight against a rising tide.Penelope Skinner's passionate, searingly funny play opened at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, in October 2023.''Fascinating . . . Skinner's writing is incisive and startlingly funny.'' Independent
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Faber & Faber Portia Coughlan
Book SynopsisWinner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 1997. Carr's harrowing play has the scale and anguish of myth, and the immediacy of a contemporary anecdote.' Independent on SundayThere's a wolf tooth growin in me heart and it's turnin me from everywan and everthin I am.Portia Coughlan lives life in monstrous limbo, haunted by a yearning for her spectral twin brother lying at the bottom of the Belmont river, unable to find any love for her wealthy husband and children, seeking solace in soulless affairs, deeply afraid of what she might do.Portia Coughlan premiered on the Abbey Theatre's Peacock Stage, Dublin, in April 1996 and transferred to the Royal Court Theatre, London, in May that year. It was revived at the Almeida Theatre, London, in October 2023.Taut and haunting, funny and sad . . . Carr plays with time and place to resonant, ultimately devastating effect.' The StageOne of the
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Faber And Faber Ltd. Kill Your Darlings
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Faber & Faber The Dark Frontier
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Faber & Faber Peter Pears A Biography
Book SynopsisThis is the authorized biography of the English tenor Peter Pears. Pears made a unique contribution to twentieth-century music, not only as an interpreter of exceptional artistry and intelligence but also as the inspiration and muse of his lifelong companion, Benjamin Britten.
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Faber & Faber Dock Leaves
Book SynopsisIn these poems, deadpan comedy and a relish for the outrageous and the bizarre often carry an emotional charge. Subjects include the stings inflicted by school, family and love-life.
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St. Martins Press-3PL The Big Lebowski
Book SynopsisThe screenplay to another offbeat movie by the Academy Award-winning Coen brothers. As a result of a case of mistaken identity, Jeffrey Lebowski - alias The Dude - finds himself entangled in a kidnapping caper as a bag man - a situation that goes from bad to even worse due to the interference of his hapless bowling partners.
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Faber & Faber The Donkeys Ears Faber Poetry
Book SynopsisA wonderfully sustained narrative poem, full of the resonances and repercussions attendant on the end of an era, The Donkey''s Ears depicts life aboard a Russian flagship just before the battle of Tsushima, 1905. It purports to be written by E.S. Politovsky, a ship''s engineer addressing his wife in letters back home. Known as ''The Trafalgar of the East'', Tsushima (which, translated from the Japanese, means ''The Donkey''s Ears'' - a description of the twin peaks of the islands) was the biggest naval gun-battle in history. The action of the poem takes place before the battle. A vividly realized claustrophobia prevails. Life below and on deck is brilliantly detailed as is the sense of incipient doom; one man''s voice (domestic, particular, yearning for wife and home comforts) pitched against the inexorable onslaught of events.
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Faber & Faber Steven Berkoff Plays 3 Ritual in Blood
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of three history plays, each displaying the sparkling muscularity of language that marks Berkoff out as one of the foremost wordsmiths in the English language. Set in thirteenth-century England, Ritual in Blood looks at the persecution of the Jews. Messiah begins with the image of Christ on the cross and pits His humanity and transcendent goodness against the evil of those who would kill Him. Finally, Berkoff offers a sharp and accessible adaptation of Sophocles''s Oedipus tragedy.
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Faber & Faber Frank McGuinness Plays 2
Book SynopsisThis second collection of Frank McGuinness contains his beautifully lyrical plays from 1989 to 1999. The Bird Sanctuary is published here for the first time. The collection also includes Mary and Lizzie, Someone Who''ll Watch Over Me and Dolly West''s Kitchen, and is introduced by the author.Mary and Lizzie''An extraordinary, outlandish script . . . Intriguing and sharply irreverent.'' Time OutSomeone Who''ll Watch Over Me''Frank McGuinness''s brilliant play, Someone Who''ll Watch Over Me, not only penetrates the minds of three disparate man who fetch up as hostages in Lebanon, but also evokes a terrifyingly unnatural situation with remarkable conviction.'' Sunday ExpressDolly West''s Kitchen''No play has ever looked into Ireland''s past and found there its future with the mix of wit and wisdom, death and despair, life and love, that characterises every line and every corner andTrade Review"Someone Who'll Watch Over Me: 'Frank McGuinness's sensitive, absorbing play'. The Times Dolly West's Kitchen: 'No play has ever looked into Ireland's past and found there its future with the mix of wit and wisdom, death and despair, life and love, that characterises every line and every corner and every moment of Dolly West's Kitchen'. Spectator
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Faber & Faber The Invention of Dr Cake
Book SynopsisWhat is the truth about the mysterious Dr Cake? Why, at his funeral, is there no name on the brass plate so ostentatiously screwed into his coffin-lid? Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate, has written a tantalising novel about poets and their afterlife.
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Faber & Faber The NeverEnding Days of Being Dead Dispatches
Book SynopsisIn Chown''s most ambitious book to date he sets out to answer some of the most provocative questions of today:- Is Elvis alive and kicking in another space domain?- Will we ever find ET?- What''s beyond the edge of the Universe?- Did aliens build the stars?- Can we live forever?Trade Review"'Marcus Chown has the happy knack of making abstruse subjects seem intelligible.' Sir Patrick Moore"
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Faber and Faber The Rainbow Opera Dreamhunter Duet
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Faber & Faber Robert Burns
Book SynopsisIn this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past
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Faber & Faber Here to Eternity
Book SynopsisA rich spectrum of poetic voices - ancient and modern, new and familiar - arranged concentrically under different headings: Self, Home, Town, Work, Land, Love, Travel, War, Belief and Space. Each section seeks out resemblances and echoes elsewhere, creating the impression of an expanding universe, from Wallace Stevens to Stevie Smith, Joseph Brodsky to Jo Shapcott, Bob Dylan to Dylan Thomas, Ben Jonson to Benjamin Zephaniah...
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Faber & Faber Meanwhile in Dopamine City
Book Synopsis***Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020***FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINING AUTHOR OF VERNON GOD LITTLE''Pierre''s high-risk prose explores and expands the cartoonish, taboo-busting outer edges of literary possibility.'' -- Independent***It's a big bad world out there, in Dopamine City.All Lonnie Cush wants is to keep his kids safe.But Shelby-Ann his little girl, the maddening apple of his eye has other ideas: Shelby-Ann wants her first smartphone.So new realities are rocketing their way to 37 Palisade Row, where everything will change, every day, and at mortal speed. Until Lonnie finds himself in a stitch: he'll have to join this new world, or wither in it. Or can he mastermind a vanishing act?The story of a hapless father's love and loss, and a speedball, starburst satire, Meanwhile in Dopamine City is a passionate, freewheeling work from the winner of the Booker Priz
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Faber & Faber Unicorns Almost
Book SynopsisUnicorns, Almost portrays the short life of World War II poet Keith Douglas, from his childhood through four engagements to his fighting in the Western desert, his accelerated education as a poet and his early death three days after the Normandy D-Day landings at the age of twenty-four. It is the story of his Faustian pact with a war that would nurture his unique poetic voice before taking it away. It is also the story of his desperate race to see his poems in print.Widely recognised as the finest poet of World War Two, Keith Douglas was championed by Ted Hughes as an important influence. Hughes wrote the introduction to Douglas's Collected Poems, published by Faber.Unicorns, Almost by Owen Sheers opened at The Swan Hotel, Hay-on-Wye, in May 2018.
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Faber & Faber The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 1 18981922
Book SynopsisVolume One of the Letters of T. S. Eliot, edited by Valerie Eliot in 1988, covered the period from Eliot''s childhood in St Louis, Missouri, to the end of 1922, by which time he had settled in England, married and published The Waste Land. Since 1988, Valerie Eliot has continued to gather materials from collections, libraries and private sources in Britain and America, towards the preparation of subsequent volumes of the Letters edition. Among new letters to have come to light, a good many date from the years 1898-1922, which has necessitated a revised edition of Volume One, taking account of approximately two hundred newly discovered items of correspondence.The new letters fill crucial gaps in the record, notably enlarging our understanding of the genesis and publication of The Waste Land. Valuable, too, are letters from the earlier and less documented part of Eliot''s life, which have been supplemented by additional correspondenc
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Faber & Faber The Poems of T S Eliot Volume I Collected and
Book SynopsisTimes Literary Supplement Book of the YearPegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, Poetry Foundation, ChicagoRichard J. Finneran Award, Society for Textual ScholarshipBest Scholarly Edition Award, Modernist Studies AssociationThe Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot''s poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over the full century in which Eliot has been so frequently printed and reprinted. The edition also presents many poems from Eliot''s youth which were published only decades later, as well as others that saw only private circulation in his lifetime, of which dozens are collected for the first time. To accompany Eliot''s poems, Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue have provided a commentary that i
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Faber & Faber Journeying Boy
Book SynopsisBest remembered for his operas and his War Requiem, Benjamin Britten''s radical politics and his sexuality have also ensured that he remains a controversial public figure. Journeying Boy is a selection of his diaries that offer the reader an unseen insight into this complex man.Encompassing the years 1928-1938, they explore some key periods of Britten''s life - his early compositions, his education first under composer Frank Bridge and then at the Royal College of Music, an unhappy but productive period studying under John Ireland and Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his reluctant and often painful process of parting from the warm, safe environment of his family home and his beloved mother.The diaries cast light on an often misrepresented musician whose technique, originality and musical prowess have entranced audiences for generations and who continues to inspire composers and musicians around the world.
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Faber & Faber Hedda Gabler In a Version
Book SynopsisHedda Gabler returns, dissatisfied, from a long honeymoon. Bored by her aspiring academic husband, she foresees a life of tedious convention. And so, aided and abetted by her predatory confidante, Judge Brack, she begins to manipulate the fates of those around her to devastating effect.Brian Friel''s version of Ibsen''s Hedda Gabler premiered at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in September 2008, to celebrate the theatre''s birthday, eighty years after the Gate''s inaugural production of Ibsen''s Peer Gynt.
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Faber & Faber Churchills Bomb A hidden history of Britains
Book SynopsisChurchill''s Bomb - from the author of the Costa award-winning biography The Strangest Man - reveals a new aspect of Winston Churchill''s life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of Britain''s policy on atomic weapons.Churchill was the only prominent politician to foresee the nuclear age and he played a leading role in the development of the Bomb during World War II. He became the first British Prime Minister with access to these weapons, and left office following desperate attempts during the Cold War to end the arms race.Graham Farmelo traces the beginnings of Churchill''s association with nuclear weapons to his unlikely friendship with H. G. Wells, who coined the term ''atomic bombs''. In the 1930s, when Ernest Rutherford and his brilliant followers, such as Chadwick and Cockcroft, gave Britain the lead in nuclear research, Churchill wrote several widely read newspaper articles on
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Faber & Faber BerlinWall FSG Classics
Book SynopsisBerlin/WallIn two contrasted readings for the stage, David Hare visits a place where a famous wall has come down; then another where a wall is going up.BerlinFor his whole adult life, David Hare has been visiting the city which so many young people regard as the most exciting in Europe. But there''s something in Berlin''s elusive character that makes him feel he''s always missing the point. Now, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the reunification, he offers a meditation about Germany''s restored capital - both what it represents in European history, and the peculiar part it has played in his own life.WallThe Israeli/Palestine security fence will one day stretch 486 miles, from one end of Israel to the other. It will be four times as long as the Berlin wall, and in places twice as high. In this second monologue, the playwright recalls his trips to both Israel and the Palestinian territory and offers a history of the wall''s bui
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Faber & Faber Point Man
Book SynopsisAmbushes. Hidden bombs. Snipers. The point man is the first to encounter these signs of danger. He's the soldier who leads the patrol into battle.Few survive for long. Between 2007 and 2008, 20-year-old Kenny Meighan was the longest-serving point man in Helmand province. An exceptionally skilful and brave private who came from a family of soldiers, he was lucky to stay alive.This is the true story of how Kenny took on the toughest test a soldier could face and lived to tell the tale.
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Faber & Faber Winterland
Book SynopsisThe worlds of business, politics and crime collide when two men with the same name, from the same family, die on the same night - one death is a gangland murder, the other, apparently, a road accident. Was it a coincidence? That''s the official version of events. But then a family member, Gina Rafferty, starts asking questions.
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Faber & Faber Out There
Book SynopsisJamie McKendrick''s sixth collection starts from the far flung (''out there'' is the nothing - or the something - of outer space), ascertaining the mood of an observer on Uranus, or the perils of medieval travel, or listening for the speech of alien landscapes. Closer to home, the poems adopt an outsiderish stance as they ponder the business of non-belonging and draw up wry inventories of marginality - finding room for those whom history has forgotten (the inhabitants of a drowned valley in Wales) or equally for the outcasts of natural history (the northern bald ibis, the hyena, the moa), whose skeletons are ''cairns to their own extinction''.But the poems themselves are stubborn survivors and vividly realised individuals: they take short views, make canny distinctions and tread carefully. Invoking paintings and artefacts and facades, they also add to an ongoing portrait of the artist - caught for example amidst the patiently-observed flotsam of a repeatedly floo
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Faber & Faber And When She Was Good
Book SynopsisIn the comfortable suburb where she lives, Heloise is just a mom, the youngish widow with a forgettable job who somehow never misses her son's soccer games or school plays. But in discrete hotel rooms throughout the area, she's the woman of your dreams - if you can afford her hourly fee.For more than a decade, Heloise has believed her unorthodox life to be a safe one; rigidly compartmentalized, maintaining no real friendships and trusting very few people. But now this secret life is under siege. Her once oblivious accountant is asking loaded questions about her business. Her longtime protector is hinting at new, mysterious dangers. Her employees can no longer be trusted. Her ex, the one who doesn't know he's the father of her son, is appealing his life sentence. And, one county over, another so-called 'suburban madam' has been found dead in her car, an apparent suicide...Can Heloise stay alive long enough to remake her life again, and save her son?Trade ReviewHeloise Lane is a single suburban mother who also happens to run a high-priced escort service. When the barrier between her two lives starts to crumble, the results are mesmerizing. Lippman writes with clarity and power. STEPHEN KING (Best reads of 2012) 'One of the best novelists writing today.' TESS GERRITSEN Laura Lippman is not just the author of top-notch psychological thrillers, she is one of the finest writers in America. MARK BILLINGHAM What a knock-out she is. A really superb multifaceted storyteller whose Baltimore-based crime and suspense novels are so much more than mere whodunits. DAILY MAIL
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Faber & Faber Children of the Sun
Book SynopsisI didn''t read your books. I licked them, I rubbed them all over my naked body and licked them.Protasov, detached and idealistic, wants only to immerse himself in chemical experiments to perfect mankind. He''s more or less oblivious to the voracious advances of the half-crazed widow Melaniya and his best friend''s unrelenting pursuit of his wife, let alone the cholera epidemic and the starving mob at his gates. While Nanny fusses round, Protasov''s admiring circle, variously skeptical, romantic and lovesick, spar over culture and the cosmos. Only Liza, neurotic and patronized, feels the suffering of the peasantry and senses that their own privileged world is in jeopardy.Gone? They''re everywhere. Have you heard about the riots? The starvation and the flagrant disregard of authority. This disregard is building walls and barriers between us all. And they are massing. The crowds of angry people. And the hate... the hate between us all... kills everything.<
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Faber & Faber The Mirror
Book SynopsisErik Satie - composer, dandy, eccentric - is dead. Told to select one memory to take with him into the afterlife, he finds himself in limbo with a community of the deceased, looking back at his fifty-nine years for their most precious moments. Evenings of absinthe at the Chat Noir? Friendships with Debussy, Duchamp and Man Ray? What of his great musical triumphs and disasters? How will he choose his own legacy before silent whiteness descends? Venice, 1511. In the convent of Sant'' Alvise, Oliva is about to take the veil and become a bride of Christ. When her world is shaken - first, literally, by an earthquake, and then, spiritually, by forces that threaten to change the convent for ever - she begins to ask questions about her faith and her future. When she agrees to sit for Signor Avílo, the renowned portrait painter, he brings with him a diabolical object: a mirror. And reflections can be dangerous. Told with playful elegance, these are two utterly
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Faber & Faber Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Book SynopsisIt''s not just that rich people don''t know what they''ve got. They don''t even know what they throw away. India is beginning to prosper. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport is an obstacle, amakeshift slum. It''s home to foul mouthed Zehrunisa and her garbage sorting son Abdul, entrepreneurs both. Sunil, twelve, picks plastic. Manju, schoolteacher, hopes to be the settlement''s first woman to gain a degree. Asha, go-to woman, exploits every scam to become a first-class person. And Fatima, One Leg, is about to make an accusation that will destroy herself and shatter the neighbourhood. Katherine Boo spent three years under the flight-path, recording the lives of Annawadi''s diverse inhabitants. Now from Boo''s book, which won the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2012, David Hare has fashioned an epic play for the stage which details the ingenious and sometimes violent ways in which the poor and disadvantaged negotiate with corruptio
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Faber & Faber Paradime
Book SynopsisAfter a stint as a private contractor in Afghanistan, Danny Lynch is back in New York. But nothing''s easy. Work is hard to find and his girlfriend owes more than $30,000 in student loans. Danny is also haunted by something he witnessed at the base - a fact that could ultimately destroy him. Then he spots Teddy Trager, tech visionary and billionaire. These two men couldn''t be more different - except for one thing: in appearance, they''re identical.Danny becomes obsessed with Trager, and before long this member of the ninety-nine per cent is passing undetected into the gilded realm of the one per cent. But what does Danny find there? Who does he become? And is there a route home?From the prize winning author of Limitless, Paradime is a novel for fans of the great ''70s conspiracy thrillers, rebooted for today''s ever-globalising world.
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Faber & Faber Zoo Boy and the Jewel Thieves
Book SynopsisEight year old Vince (otherwise known somewhat affectionately as Zoo Boy) can talk to animals. Which is handy, as his dad works at the zoo! The only problem is, the animals are rather demanding... But for once the animals are going to have to put their selfish ways aside, as there''s a jewel thief on the loose. Can Vince and the animals catch the crook?Another hilarious and delightful story for 6+ readers by actress Sophie Thompson, with black and white illustrations by the wonderfully talented Rebecca Ashdown.
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Faber & Faber Owen McCafferty Plays 2
Book SynopsisOwen McCafferty''s second collection includes plays that span from the sinking of the Titanic to the lingering aftermath of the Troubles in twenty-first-century Belfast.Absence of WomenA fine example of theatre at its small-scale best.' Evening StandardTitanicOwen McCafferty''s rigorous verbatim play provides an antidote to Titanic fatigue... Two months of hearings from 97 witnesses are whittled down to nine... What remains, even after a century, is a disturbing sense of moral ambiguity: 1, 517 dead and no one to blame.' GuardianQuietlyVibrates with a violent tension so taut that if you were a bystander... you'd hardly dare to breathe.'' New York TimesRemarkable inspired The piece packs sweeping questions about forgiveness and accountability into a tightly plotted encounter.' Daily TelegraphThe most powerful theatrical production I have had the privilege of seeing... McCaffert
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Faber & Faber A Good Deliverance
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Faber & Faber The Poems of Dorothy Molloy
Book SynopsisDorothy Molloy was a star in the making when Faber prepared her debut Hare Soup (2004) for publication, before tragedy struck, and she died four days before advance copies arrived. With its distinctive and unsettling mix of comedy and complicity, dark humour and disturbance (a feminist burlesque that has seen her work christened as ''gurlesque''), Hare Soup stripped the veneer from the niceties of relations in family life and the Catholic church, turning its inventive and sexually charged gaze to corruption and abuse in our most private spaces. The book rightly won accolades and admirers, and was followed by a further, posthumous collection, Gethsemane Day (2006) that was prepared from typescript. The Poems of Dorothy Molloy gathers these two collections alongside her manuscript work, which appeared as Long-Distance Swimmer (Salmon, 2009), and the remaining body of unpublished material to present a complete edition of poems to meet the growing readers
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Faber & Faber Once You Go This Far
Book SynopsisAfter the death of her cop father, PI Roxane Weary did everything she could to lose herself in her work - but she''s getting tired of the hangovers, of fighting with her ex-girlfriend, and of avoiding her mother. When she''s asked to investigate a suspicious death, she delves into the case with her usual stubborn determination.Pulling her far from home, and into an insular and controlling evangelical community, the case might just be bigger than Roxane can handle alone. But is it too late, or too dangerous, to call on the people she needs?''Roxane Weary [is] a wonderful character. Lepionka is such an assured writer, with complete narrative authority from the first line.'' Sophie HannahWhat readers are saying''Gripping!''''Honestly, I can''t see myself ever tiring of this series or these characters.''''If you like books about hard boiled private eyes who seem to attract trouble with a capital T then you will love these
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