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Faber & Faber Writing for Nothing Fiction Short Plays Texts for
Book SynopsisMartin Crimp's Writing for Nothing collects texts written over the last thirty years. Included here are short plays, unmistakably the work of the internationally acclaimed author of Attempts on Her Life; texts for opera, beginning with the modern masterpiece Written on Skin, created with composer George Benjamin; and two stories that provide a new perspective on Crimp, revealing a writer capable of bringing all of his brilliance to prose. Unsettling, elegant and incisive, Writing for Nothing is a vibrant and varied anthology, celebrating a writer with a rare talent for illuminating the power structures behind our everyday world.
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Faber & Faber The City of Today is a Dying Thing
Book Synopsis'Counterintuitive, funny and provocative . Along the way, he reveals the deep-lying and often controversial roots of today's green city movement, and offers an argument for celebrating our cities as they are - in all their raucous, constructed and artificial glory.
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Faber & Faber The LockUp
Book Synopsis**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**''Crime writing of the finest quality, elegant, distinctive and utterly absorbing.'' Daily Mail''[The Strafford and Quirke series] promises to elevate the crime novel to new artistic heights.'' Financial Times''John Banville is one of the best novelists in English.'' Guardian''Superb and shocking. . . more than a touch of genius.'' The TimesThe Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow and April in Spain returns with Strafford and Quirkeâs most troubling case yet.1950s Dublin, in a lock-up garage in the city, the body of a young woman is discovered, an apparent suicide. But pathologist Dr Quirke and Detective Inspector Strafford soon suspect foul play.The victimâs sister, a newspaper reporter from London, returns to Dublin to join the two men in their quest to uncover the truth. But, as they explore her links to a wealthy
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Faber & Faber Groundskeeping
Book Synopsis'An extraordinary debut' (ANN PATCHETT) to fall for - a coming-of-age story and an immersive love story.
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Faber & Faber Penance
Book SynopsisCarelli has written the definitive account of the crime. A dizzying feat of investigative mastery, Carelli's book is built on hours of interviews with witnesses and family members, painstaking historical research, and most notably, correspondence with the killers themselves.
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Faber & Faber You Will Never Be Found
Book SynopsisHe was locked inside an abandoned house. But he's not the only one . . .When a dead man is found locked in the basement of an abandoned house, deep in the woods, there is no evidence of what happened beyond his name - scratched into the wall before he died. The regional police can't find anyone who knew him. But no-one knows the locals like Detective Eira SjÃdin. When her expert knowledge of her home town is again called in, she knows one of them must have seen something. Then, a shock: before she can uncover the truth, someone close to her disappears.Has he fallen victim to the same criminal they've been chasing? And can Eira put the pieces together in time to save him?**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**PRAISE FOR WE KNOW YOU REMEMBER'Intensely gripping.' CHRIS WHITAKER'Strong characters, a great sense of place and plot twists galore.' SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB'A terrific twisting roller
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Faber & Faber Serendipity
Book SynopsisLove is in the air in this is a collection of stories inspired by romantic tropes and edited by #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Gilded, Marissa Meyer.The secret admirer.The fake relationship.The matchmaker.From stories of first love, unrequited love, love that surprises, love that's been there all along, ten of the brightest and award-winning authors writing YA have taken on some of your favourite romantic tropes, embracing them and turning them on their heads. Readers will swoon for this collection of stories that celebrate love at its most humorous, inclusive, heart-expanding and serendipitous. Contributors include Elise Bryant, Elizabeth Eulberg, Leah Johnson, Anna-Marie McLemore, Marissa Meyer, Sandhya Menon, Julie Murphy, Caleb Roehrig, Sarah Winifred Searle and Abigail Hing Wen.
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Faber & Faber Shot with Crimson
Book SynopsisAlways a delight.' Sunday TimesI will never understand why murder is considered such a lowbrow speciality in HollywoodSeptember, 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca. Then a shocking act of violence reawakens the shadows of the past, with consequences on both sides of the Atlantic, and Josephine and DCI Archie Penrose find themselves on a trail leading back to the house that inspired a young Daphne du Maurier - a trail that echoes Rebecca''s timeless themes of obsession, jealousy and murder.''An astonishingly complex mystery.'' The Times''Classy, clever, endlessly entertaining . . . one of this talented author''s most impressive outings yet.'' Lancashire Evening PostReaders love Nicola UpsonOh my, what a delight to read this was. An author abso
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Faber & Faber My Heavenly Favourite
Book SynopsisThe electrifying new novel from the sensational bestselling winner of the International Booker Prize.'A novel of exquisite discomfort and delicious poetry. Rijneveld writes with peerless moral courage and a sheer delight in the abject that we must each face in ourselves. This book unsettled me even as it made me laugh and gasp. I'm in awe.' Brandon TaylorIn the tempestuous summer of 2005, a 14-year-old farmer's daughter makes friends with the local veterinarian who looks after her father's cows. He is trying to escape trauma, while she is trying to escape into a world of fantasy. Their obsessive reliance on each other's stories builds into a terrifying trap, with a confession at the heart of it that threatens to rip their small community apart.Indelible, audacious and impossible-to-put-down, My Heavenly Favourite confirms Rijneveld as one of the bravest and brilliant writers on the world stage.Translated by Michele Hutchison
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Faber & Faber Toys Tricks Traps
Book SynopsisIn Christopher Reid's marvellous new collection, a schoolboy furtively and thrillingly drops a marble through the top of his desk so that it makes its way in darkness along a complicated chute of books, rulers and rubbish, only to emerge from a hole in the base and be caught deftly in his other hand.
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Faber & Faber Purple Snowflakes and Titty Wanks
Book SynopsisI'm just very very horny.I don't know how else to put it.Saoirse Murphy moves from one chaotic world to another. From her Catholic school in Dublin to a new exciting life in London. She's had a taste of freedom and she's making the most of it; but underneath it all she's struggling to manage big secrets, and there's only one person she can talk to.Sarah Hanly's Purple Snowflakes and Titty Wanks premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in October 2021. It is co-produced by the Royal Court Theatre, London, and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Her monologue Shower was staged at the Abbey as part of the Dear Ireland series, 2020. She was awarded the 2019 Pinter Commission.
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Faber & Faber Tremor
Book SynopsisLife is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.Tunde, the man at the centre of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his current work as a teacher of photography on a renowned New England campus. He is a reader, a listener, and a traveller drawn to many different kinds of stories: from history and the epic; of friends, family, and strangers; those found in books and films. One man's personal lens refracts entire worlds, and back again.A weekend spent shopping for antiques is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speak out from a pulsing metropolis.Tremor is a startling work of realism and invention that examines the passage of time and how we mark it. It is a reckoning with human survival amidst
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Faber & Faber Munichs
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Faber & Faber The Revenge of Rita Marsh
Book SynopsisPayback is a killer . . . ''This book was brilliant! . . . Rita is so complex and intriguing. I binged it!'' 5* reader review''Powerful . . . a first class thriller.'' 5* NetGalley review''I could not put this down.'' 5* NetGalley review Rita Marsh is a good person. By day, she runs a care home, looking after the elderly and infirm. By night, she's a vigilante, posing online as young girls and snaring the men who prey on them, exposing them for what they are. Rita has successfully kept her two lives separate for years. But when an old classmate returns from her past, her two worlds start to collide. With both of her selves unravelling, Rita will have to choose between justice and revenge. Is she a force for good or will she become someone to fear?Everyone is talking about The Revenge of Rita Marsh: ''I devoured it.'' CHRIS
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Faber & Faber Little Rot
Book SynopsisThey wanted revenge, they wanted people to be held accountable in a world where that just didn't happen. It was like expecting a rotten tree to bear fruit.Akwaeke Emezi's exhilarating new novel follows five people over the course of a heady weekend which will brutally upend all of their lives.When Kalu drops Aima at Lagos Airport, it marks the end of their four-year relationship. Shattered and broken open, he thinks that's the last he will see of his girlfriend. But Aima is drawn back into the city - to the scandalous, decadent nightlife of her best friend.As Kalu grieves, his friend offers him an exclusive invitation to one of his sordid, global parties - a way for Kalu to escape, if only for a night. Kalu knows it will offer every possible indulgence and something even more precious: time with the man he loves, but whose actions will plunge them all into a whirling descent that pulls in everyone connected to them.
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Faber & Faber The City Changes Its Face
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Faber & Faber My Roman Year
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Faber & Faber World Within a Song
Book SynopsisWhat makes us fall in love with a song? What makes us want to write our own songs? Do songs help? Do songs help us live better lives? And do the lives we live help us write better songs? Following publication of Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) and How To Write One Song, both New York Times bestsellers that cemented and expanded his legacy as one of America's best-loved performers and songwriters, Jeff Tweedy is back with another disarming, beautiful, and inspiring book.Featuring over fifty songs that have both changed Jeff''s life and influenced his musicincluding songs by the Velvet Underground, Joni Mitchell, Otis Redding, Dolly Parton, and Billie Eilishas well as thoughts on Jeff''s own songs, World Within a Song asks why do we listen to music, why we love songs, and how music can connect us to each other and to ourselves.
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Faber & Faber Joy in Service on Rue Tagore
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Faber & Faber May All Your Skies Be Blue
Book SynopsisFrom the author of the beloved debut Boys Don't Cry - an unforgettable story of love, loss, regret and the indelible marks one person can make on your life. He's leaning in.
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Faber & Faber The Book of ABBA
Book SynopsisMore than half a century after their songs were recorded, ABBA still makepeople the world over dance and sing their hearts out. After interviewing thefour members for an article in 2013 - at which time the band had not beeninterviewed for over thirty years - Jan Gradvall was granted unique access tothem for the next decade. In The Book of ABBA, the band share their thoughtsand opinions more openly than ever before, while Jan reveals the context inwhich their sound developed - and shows how the story of ABBA is also thestory of Sweden and the globalisation of pop culture.Fromtheir chart-topping ABBA Voyage - their first album in forty years - to thetwo-million-ticket-selling concert-experience of the same name, it isundeniable that, in the history of pop culture and music, there has never beena group like ABBA. With remarkable intimacy, Gradvall's book brings readerscloser than ever to one of the world's most notoriously private music icons.
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Faber & Faber Holding the Line
Book SynopsisIt was the summer of 1983. Barbara Kingsolver had a day job as ascientific writer spends her weekends cutting her teeth as a freelancejournalist when she landed an assignment. Her mission: was to cover the PhelpsDodge mine strike.Overthe year that followed Kingsolver stood with those miners and their families,increasingly engaged and heartbroken. She recorded stories of striking minersand their stunningly courageous wives, sisters and daughters. She saw rightsshe'd taken for granted denied to people she had learned to care about, asthey cried out to a wide world that either refused to believe what washappening to them, or didn't care, or simply could not know.Thisbook is the true story of the families who held the line, and of Kingsolver'scommitment to tell the story of the women and girls who discovered themselvesin their fight to keep their families from destitution.Itis a story about the sparks that fly when the flint of force strikes againsthuman mettle
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Faber & Faber The Cut
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Faber & Faber Wallace Shawn Plays 1 A Thought in Three Parts
Book Synopsis'There is a quality in Shawn's writing - imaginative verve, quiet intensity, a sort of puritan sensitivity or a blend of them all.' The TimesThis first collection of Wallace Shawn's work contains plays from the seventies and eighties, including Aunt Dan and Lemon, described by Frank Rich in the New York Times as 'the most stimulating, not to mention demanding, American play to emerge this year'.Aunt Dan and Lemon'A mordant comedy for those who really listen in the theatre... A playwright of astonishing originality and veracity.' New York TimesMarie and Bruce'A play that sees, hears, smells and tells more about the way we really live now than any American play in years... Wallace Shawn is a true original, one of the most deeply seeing, sharply writing playwrights we have.' NewsweekThe Fever'A profoundly engaging and provocative journey through the awakening of a pampered man's conscien
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Faber & Faber Shallow Grave Screenplay FF Classics
Book SynopsisSet in the appropriately Gothic surroundings of contemporary Edinburgh, Shallow Grave presents a trio of affluent characters whose feckless lives are disrupted when they discover the corpse of their recently arrived flatmate, plus a suitcase bulging with money beneath his bed. The stage is thus set for a morality play about friendship and filthy lucre. The story balances on a knife-edge between ebullience and violence as the forces of destruction gather to claim their greedy victims.Shallow Grave won the Alexander Korda award for Best British Film of 1994, and established the partnership of writer John Hodge, producer Andrew Macdonald, director Danny Boyle and actor Ewan McGregor - a partnership to be renewed triumphantly the following year on Trainspotting.
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Faber & Faber Bash Latterday Plays
Book SynopsisNeil LaBute''s Bash is a collection of three darkly brilliant one-act plays.In ''Medea Redux'', a woman tells of her complex and ultimately tragic relationship with her junior high-school English teacher.In ''Iphigenia in Orem'', a Utah businessman confides in a stranger in a Las Vegas hotel room, confessing to an especially chilling crime.In ''A Gaggle of Saints'', a young Mormon couple separately recount the violent events of an anniversary weekend in New York City.All three are unblinking portraits of the evils that are abroad in everyday life; each is distinguished by the raw and yet lyrical intensity that has become Neil Labute''s signature.
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Faber & Faber Five Boys
Book SynopsisSomething strange is going on in the village. A dead pig is carried through the lanes in a coffin, a heap of signposts are buried in a field and a mummy walks the streets late at night, scaring the local ladies half to death. Things have never been the same since the evacuee arrived and the Five Boys mistook him for a Nazi spy. It is as if someone is out for revenge. The village has had a whole host of visitors since: the Americans are down the road preparing for D-Day and a deserter is hiding out in the woods. But it is the arrival of the Bee King which makes the biggest impression. He is a law unto himself, has his own strange rituals and the villagers fear that he is beginning to exert the same charm over their boys as he does over his bees. The second novel by the highly acclaimed author of The Underground Man confirms Mick Jackson''s originality and talent.
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Faber & Faber Fivemiletown
Book SynopsisA reissue of Paulin's "corrosive and uproarious litany of bad sex, bad politics and bad religion" from the 1980s.
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Faber & Faber White Savage William Johnson and the Invention of
Book SynopsisA dramatic, exciting and tragic book about the Irish fur trapper who held the fate of America and the British Empire in his hands.William Johnson began life as a poor Irish Catholic peasant. After converting to Protestantism, he emigrated to America where he became the leading fur trader in the British colony and one of its richest men. He also ''went native'', marrying an Indian woman and adopting the religion of her tribe, the Iroquois. When war broke out between the French and English, Johnson held the fate of the British Empire in his hands. If the Indians fought with the French, the British were doomed. A fascinating historical biography of this adventurous man, whose reinvention in the New World made him the first modern American.Trade Review"'Accomplished and supremely readable... Tells the astonishing story of Sir William Johnson... Hero, adventurer, servant of the crown, Irishman, lover - Johnson was all of these.' Stella Tillyard, Sunday Times"
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Faber & Faber The Republic of Trees
Book SynopsisOne of the most vivid, gripping and chilling first novels of recent years, The Republic of Trees tells the story of Michael, Louis, Alex and Isobel, four children on the edge of adolescence, who run away to the forest to establish their own utopian community. All seems well in the Republic of Trees - until the sudden arrival of Joy. Under her influence, their relationships grow more erotic and obsessive, and the shadows of a nightmarish dystopia start to encroach on reality . . .Trade Review"'Sam Taylor clearly relishes storytelling and his novel has the kind of swift pace that's rare in literary fiction, sweeping you up and carrying you to a place where anything might happen.' Daily Mail 'An enchanting and deeply disturbing first novel... sensitive, at times beautiful.' Observer 'A bold debut, and one wants to see what Taylor does next.' Independent"
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Faber and Faber The Dreamwalker39s Child
Book Synopsis'When the Dreamwalker's Child walks in Aurobon, then shall the East be in the ascendant; a plague shall descend from the sky and the Earth will fall into shadow . . .'Sam Palmer hates living in the country - he doesn't have any friends and life is dull. Until a bizarre bicycle crash leaves his body in a coma.Now he has far bigger problems.Sam wakes in Aurobon, a world similar to his own, and discovers that his accident was part of an elaborate abduction. Dark forces led by the brutal Odoursin need him for a deadly agenda, one that threatens to reach beyond Aurobon and into his own world. Aided by the fearless Skipper - an adrenalin-loving girl pilot - and on the run from insects the size of fighter jets, Sam must join the fight against Odoursin and find a way to return home. That's if the terrifying marsh dogs don't kill him first . . .
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Faber & Faber Selected Letters of Louis MacNeice
Book SynopsisLouis MacNeice is increasingly recognised as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his work has been a defining influence upon a generation of Irish poets that includes Derek Mahon, Michael Longley and Paul Muldoon.The Selected Letters is indispensable as a resource for an understanding of the intellectual culture of the mid-twentieth century. A Classics don, poet, playwright and globetrotting BBC producer, the medley and blend of MacNeice''s cultural influences seems exemplary in its modernity. He kept up a significant correspondence with E. R. Dodds, Anthony Blunt and T. S. Eliot, to name but three prominent figures of the time.During his time at the BBC MacNeice witnessed many key events, including the partition of India in 1947 and the independence of the Gold Coast from Britain in 1957, and these are recorded in two long sequences to his wife, the singer Hedli Anderson.His complex relationship to Ireland and to his Irish heritage
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Faber & Faber Alexander Pope Poems Selected by John Fuller Poet
Book SynopsisA series featuring a contemporary poet selecting and introducing a poet of the past. It, by choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions expressed in prefaces, offers insights into the poets' own work as well as providing an introduction to some of the greatest poets of literature.Trade Review"'Faber has a poetry list worth bragging about. What other publisher could conjure up a series like this?' The Times"
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Faber & Faber Let Me Play the Lion Too
Book SynopsisHow do you prepare for your first day on the set? Why might a bad audition lead to a good job offer? How should you research? What''s the effect of a long tour on your love-life? Can you have a glass of wine before a matinee? What''s the difference between transitive and intransitive corpsing? What is stage fright?In Michael Pennington''s highly personal guide and memoir there are sections on rehearsals, on television then and now, on who does what on a film set, on the disciplines and rewards of musical theatre, and five directors discuss why the scenery is better on radio. Disability and racial bias in the theatre are discussed and we sometimes hear from other, younger voices who are following parallel paths. Infectiously enthusiastic, both conversational and profound, Let Me Play the Lion Too draws on the author''s fifty years of experience to celebrate the deadly serious, sometimes hilarious, often misunderstood but infinitely enriching life
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Faber & Faber The Faber Pocket Guide to Musicals
Book SynopsisJames Inverne provides an indispensable guide to his top one hundred greatest shows of all time - and ten of the worst. Whether you know your Pal Joey from The Producers, your West Side Story from your Witch Witch, the Faber Pocket Guide To Musicals is packed with entertaining behind-the-scenes stories, essential songlists and comprehensive recording guides. Did you know, for instance, that one of the best recordings of Les Miserables is in Hebrew? Or that Mel Brooks wasn''t the first person to want to make a musical of The Producers? (That claim goes to Eric Idle.) Or the ridiculous story of the huge purpose-built theatre constructed in Holland to house a flop about Grace Kelly? Key features include: - The hundred greatest musicals - Numbers to listen for - Snapshot plot summaries - Ten terrible musicals - Recommended recordings James Inverne has been writing about musical theatre for years and bri
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Faber & Faber New Selected Journals 19391995
Book SynopsisPrivate faces in public placesAre wiser and nicerThan public faces in private places.W.H. Auden, dedication to Stephen Spender, 1932Stephen Spender wrote almost a million words of journal entries between his September Journal in 1939 and his death in 1995. In choosing from these voluminous journals for the new edition, the editors have tried to provide a picture of the various lives Spender brought together in autobiographical form.The earlier 1985 edition of the Journals was overseen by the author, and it privileged his thoughts about poetry - his own and other people''s. The new edition includes the final ten years of Spender''s life and provides access to the more intimate thoughts and feelings of the private man, but equally documents his life as a public intellectual who played a part in shaping the European literary and intellectual culture of his age.As we look back on the dramatic events of
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Faber & Faber W H Auden Prose Volume 3 19491955
Book SynopsisThis is the fifth volume to be published in the ongoing complete edition of Auden''s works, under the editorship of Edward Mendelson. It includes the essays, reviews, and other prose that Auden published or prepared for publication between 1949 -- when he wrote his first book of criticism, The Enchafèd Flood -- and December 1955, shortly before he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford and began the series of lectures that he published, with much else, in The Dyer''s Hand.The texts throughout this edition are, wherever possible, newly edited from Auden''s manuscripts, and the notes report variant readings from all published versions.Trade Review"'The Complete Works, edited with elegant scruple by Edward Mendelson, is the only way to get at Auden as he happened, year by year, bit by bit, and not as he, or his later biographers, want us to think of him.' Boston Book Review"
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Faber & Faber Selected Poems
Book SynopsisMichael Hofmann''s poems have been widely admired, notably for their gift of compressed and vividly pointed reportage, and the collision course of words and dictions that his poetry characteristically provokes. His subject-matter has been equally individual, including his remarkable and complex series of ''father-poems'', his subtle portraiture of the lives of others, East and West, together with his acerbic impressionism of contemporary England, and his exploration of Adorno''s injunction that ''it is part of morality not to be at home in one''s home''.Trade Review"'Michael Hofmann is one of the best poets writing in English.' Helen Dunmore, The Observer"
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Faber & Faber Escape and Evasion
Book Synopsis'Escape and Evasion reads like a Network for the Bitcoin era.' Tony ParsonsCity banker Joseph Ashcroft has stolen 1.34 billion from his own bank. He has given it - untraceably - to impoverished strangers worldwide, and has fled.Why has he done this? And will he get away with it?Joseph knows that if he leaves the country, he will easily be tracked down. So he opts for hiding close by - first in the city, then in the woods near the home of his estranged family. An ex-soldier, he's adept at the art of camouflage.On Joseph's trail is Ben Lancaster, the bank's head of security and, as it happens, a former army friend with whom he shares a violent, guilt-ridden past.The hunt is on.Escape and Evasion is a tragicomic tale of buried secrets, the lengths a man will go to win back those he loves, and the fallout from a monumental change of heart.
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Faber & Faber War plc The Rise of the New Corporate Mercenary
No longer dogs of war running ragtag armies, the new breed of private soldiers operate their million-dollar contracts from executive boardrooms worldwide. Whether they''re ex-special forces, CIA spooks or Foreign Legionnaires, you''ll find them exchanging gunfire with insurgents in Baghdad, patrolling government buildings in Afghanistan, or spying on environmental protestors. The lucrative contracts of the ''War on Terror'' have made their plans even more ambitious - to offer governments and corporations discrete and well-trained private armies. These corporate soldiers are part of the last great outsourcing - the privatisation of war. War plc examines how we got here, how these companies operate, and how close we are to letting them run our battlefields.
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Faber & Faber Kenneth Grahame
Book SynopsisThe Wind in the Willows needs no introduction - children have enjoyed the exploits of its characters for generations. Few would guess that its author, Kenneth Grahame, was a tortured soul. Marriage to the predatory Elspeth Thomson, when both seemed destined for the single life, was a shared fantasy of invented truth. Out of that union came a catastrophically spoiled son, ''mouse'', for whom that greatest of children''s stories was written. It was the child''s tragedy that he was sucked into the unreality of his parents'' lives and did not survive it, ending his life in suicide.Alison Prince brings her own highly acclaimed expertise as a children''s writer to this remarkably perceptive biography of Kenneth Grahame. Drawing on hitherto unpublished material she uncovers layer upon layer of Grahame''s personality to reveal the truth behind the myth of this intriguing man, ''the tortured soul of Mr Toad''.''Alison Prince describes the grim story of Grahame''s marri
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Faber & Faber The Widows Tale
Book SynopsisA newly-widowed woman has done a runner. She just jumped in her car, abandoned her (very nice) house in north London and kept on driving until she reached the Norfolk coast. Now she''s rented a tiny cottage and holed herself away there, if only to escape the ceaseless sympathy and insincere concern. She''s not quite sure, but thinks she may be having a bit of a breakdown. Or perhaps this sense of dislocation is perfectly normal in the circumstances. All she knows is that she can''t sleep and may be drinking a little more than she ought to. But as her story unfolds we discover that her marriage was far from perfect. That it was, in fact, full of frustration and disappointment, as well as one or two significant secrets, and that by running away to this particular village she might actually be making her own personal pilgrimage.By turns elegiac and highly comical, The Widow''s Tale conjures up this most defiantly unapologetic of narrators as she begins to pick over the w
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Faber & Faber I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
Book Synopsis''A triumph of tone and, ultimately, of the imagination.'' Guardian ''Strange and hilarious and so, so sharp.'' Monica Heisey ''When a book reaches out and speaks to a reader so clearly, one can hardly do anything but recommend it in the highest terms.' SpectatorA New Statesman, New Yorker and Financial Times Book of the Year. From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore's new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise.High up in a New York City hospice, Finn sits with his beloved brother Max, who is slipping from one world into the next. But when a phone call summons Finn back to a troubled old flame, a strange journey begins, opening a trapdoor in reality. It will prompt a questioning of life and death, grief and the past, comedy and tragedy, and the diaphanous separations that lie between them all.''Moore writes with such panache, such extraord
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Faber & Faber Jubilee Lines
Book SynopsisTo mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II''s accession to the throne, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to write about each of the sixty years of Her Majesty''s reign. An all star line up - which includes such celebrated writers as Simon Armitage, Gillian Clarke, Wendy Cope, Geoffrey Hill, Jackie Kay, Michael Longley, Andrew Motion, Don Paterson and Jo Shapcott, alongside some of the newest young talent around - address a moment or event from their chosen year, be it of personal or political significance or both. Through a series of specially commissioned poems, Jubilee Lines offers a unique portrayal of the country and times in which we have lived since 1953, culminating in an essential portrait of today: the way we speak, the way we chronicle, the way we love and fight, the way we honour and remember. Brilliantly introduced by Carol Ann Duffy, Jubilee Lines is an unforgettable commem
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Faber & Faber Caret
Book Synopsis''Joyous.'' Observer''Tremendously entertaining.'' Irish Times ''Truly original.'' The Times** A Times and Guardian Book of the Year **We make lazy assumptions about the centre of things and its location. Who's to say that the centre of things isn't in a corner, way over there?'Nobody can be a person twenty-fours hours a day it just can't be done. At night the sets dissolve and the performance falls away We're off the books.'That's John Cromer talking, in this fresh instalment of his lifelong saga. For John, embarking on a new stage of life in 1970s Cambridge, charm and wit aren''t just assets, they are survival skills. It may be a case of John against the world. If so, don't be in too much of a hurry to bet on the world.Conjuring a remarkable voice and mind, Caret is a feast of a novel, served on a succession of small plates, each portion providing an ad
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Faber & Faber Maiden Voyage
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Faber & Faber The Chosen Ones
Book SynopsisWinner of the Prix Médicis Étranger The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality however, was very different. Through the eyes of a child inmate, and a nurse, Steve Sem-Sandberg explores the very meaning of survival. This extraordinary novel offers invaluable and compelling insight on an intolerable chapter of Austria's past.
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