Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber Tweeting the Universe
Book SynopsisIn 140 pages, two masterly popularisers present 140 explanations of the biggest questions in physics - in the form of 10 or so tweets per page. They set themselves the challenge of boiling down what is essential on each subject into sentences of 140 characters, and the results are both entertaining and brilliantly informative. Not a word is wasted. The reader is not patronized and learns something on every page. If only all science writing could be so precise and so economical. Only science writers of a very high calibre could achieve such compression. Marcus Chown - ''the finest cosmology writer of our day'' (Matt Ridley) - has known the Dutch writer Govert Schilling for twenty years. Schilling pioneered this very swift form of explanation in a Dutch newspaper, and suggested to Chown that they collaborate on bringing it to a wider audience. Tweeting the Universe is unlike any other science book.
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Faber & Faber The Lady in the Van
Book Synopsis''We have, in the nick of time, a Play of the Year: Alan Bennett''s The Lady in the Van is a wonderfully bittersweet comic diary of the years in which a lethally dotty and very smelly old bat parked her unroadworthy vehicle in Bennett''s Camden garden, thereby providing him with a roughly equal amount of journalistic copy and guilty landlordly irritation.Sheridan Morley, Spectator
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Faber & Faber Open Up
Book SynopsisA GRANTA BEST YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST 2023Brilliant, funny, unsettling. . . Thomas Morris is a master of the contemporary short story' SALLY ROONEYWith precision, wry humour and a generous heart, Morris visits life''s agonies and ecstasies.' NATHAN FILERA fierce and tender suite of stories' LUCY CALDWELLThomas Morris is incredibly gifted within the form. It's so heartening to read his work.' SARAH HALL Funny, sad, complex, unexpected, and worthy of multiple readings.' JON MCGREGORPleasurably off-kilter, gently acerbic and sadly wise' COLIN BARRETTThe new collection from a literary star five achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of (dis)connection.From a child attending his first football match, buoyed by secret magic, and a wincingly humane portrait of adolescence, to the perplexity of grief and loss through the eyes of a seahorse, Thomas Morris seeks to find grace, hope an
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Faber & Faber The New York Trilogy Faber Modern Classics
Book SynopsisThe contemporary classic from ''our supreme post-modernist'' (Ian McEwan) - expanding the possibilities of the noir detective novel - whose writing ''shines with intelligence and originality'' (Don DeLillo)The New York Trilogy is the most astonishing work by America''s most consistently astonishing writer: three interconnected novels that exploit the riveting elements of classic detective fiction to achieve a radical new genre - a profound and unsettling existentialist enquiry in the tradition of Kafka or Borges. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human. The result is the modern novel at its finest which will shock, transfix and astound every reader.''Marks a new departure for the American novel.'' Observer''A shatteringly clever piece of work . . . Utterly gripping, written wit
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Faber & Faber Five Children on the Western Front
Book SynopsisAn incredible, heart-wrenching sequel to E. Nesbit's Five Children and It, set on the eve of the First World War. The five children have grown up - war will change their lives for ever. Cyril is off to fight, Anthea is at art college, Robert is a Cambridge scholar and Jane is at high school. The Lamb is the grown up age of 11, and he has a little sister, Edith, in tow. The sand fairy has become a creature of stories ... until he suddenly reappears. The siblings are pleased to have something to take their minds off the war, but this time the Psammead is here for a reason, and his magic might have a more serious purpose. Before this last adventure ends, all will be changed, and the two younger children will have seen the Great War from every possible viewpoint - factory-workers, soldiers and sailors, nurses and the people left at home, and the war's impact will be felt right at the heart of their family.
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Faber & Faber How to Hold Your Breath
Book SynopsisBecause we live in Europe. Because nothing really bad happens. The worst is a bit of an inconvenience. Perhaps not such a good mini break. But really in the grand scheme of life, not so bad.Starting with a seemingly innocent one night stand, this dark, witty and magical play by Zinnie Harris dives into our recent European history.An epic look at the true cost of principles and how we live now, How to Hold Your Breath premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in February 2015.
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Faber & Faber The House Uptown
Book Synopsis''Utterly unique, addictively readable.'' Pandora Sykes''Intriguing, elegant and seductive.'' Jessica Moor''You can''t put it down.'' Kevin WilsonAfter the sudden death of her mother, Ava finds herself headed cross-country to live with the only relative she has left. But Lane, her grandmother, doesn't seem to have much room in her heart for a teenage girl, barely acknowledging Ava between obsessive painting sessions. The only other person who comes around is Lane's assistant, Oliver, who's dealing with issues of his own. As the summer goes on, Ava begins to get a sense that something is very wrong in her grandmother's house. Why was Lane estranged from Ava's mother, and is she now losing her mind? Could the danger lie with Oliver? Or, is there something darker in their past, something which could come back to destroy them all?Trade Review'Melissa Ginsburg's brilliance is on full display in The House Uptown. By giving us these layered, complicated characters, all suffering from previous traumas, Ginsburg reveals how the past keeps reaching toward us, and what we'll do to stay out of its reach. It's a book that breaks you down, even though you can't put it down.' - Kevin Wilson
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Faber & Faber The House Uptown
Book Synopsis'Superb.' The Guardian 'A page-turner.' Jonathan Lethem 'Utterly unique, addictively readable.' Pandora Sykes'Intriguing, elegant and seductive.' Jessica Moor'You can't put it down.' Kevin WilsonAfter the sudden death of her mother, Ava finds herself headed cross-country to live with the only relative she has left. But Lane, her grandmother, doesn't seem to have much room in her heart for a teenage girl, barely acknowledging Ava between obsessive painting sessions. The only other person who comes around is Lane's assistant, Oliver, who's dealing with issues of his own. As the summer goes on, Ava begins to get a sense that something is very wrong in her grandmother's house. Why was Lane estranged from Ava's mother, and is she now losing her mind? Could the danger lie with Oliver? Or, is there something darker in their past, something which could come back to destroy them all?
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Faber & Faber The Vogue
Book Synopsis''A wonderfully eerie, tragic read. I read it with my heart in my mouth.'' Anna Burns author of MilkmanAn unforgettable novel of ghosts, lies and the the past, from the prize-winning Eoin McNameeLate 1944, and two teenagers dance the Vogue in silence on the projectionist's floor of the Pirnmill Aerodrome. She draws the outlines of their footwork in eyebrow pencil on the white sheet. He loses their bet. Decades later, a ghost returns to Morne to identify a body found in the shifting sands. Names have long since been changed; children long since cast out; lies long thought forgotten. Set against an eerie landscape, awash with secrets, The Vogue is a grimly poetic dance through the intertwined stories of a deeply religious community, an abandoned military base, and a long-shuttered children's Care Home.
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Faber & Faber Stars Cars and Crystal Meth
Book SynopsisJack Sutherland has, you might say, led a charmed life in the face of seeming damnation. After a childhood spent in London, his family moved to California and by his twenties Jack was PA and bodyguard to the Hollywood stars - most notably Michael Stipe, RuPaul and Mickey Rourke.
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Faber & Faber The Imagination Box A Mind of its Own 1
Book SynopsisThere was a sabre-toothed tiger in the playground. Wandering thoughts, Tim had come to realise, were extremely dangerous things.Nearly a year has passed since Tim, Dee and Phil the finger monkey (with the help of some fire-breathing bear-sharks) defeated Wilde Tech Inc and destroyed the imagination space. But since then, it's become increasingly clear that there's something wrong with Tim. His imagination seems limitless - anything he imagines immediately appears in front of him, with no need for the imagination box. Which has both good and bad consequencesThen, in the blink of an eye, everything changes. Tim wakes up and discovers he''s in his old orphanage. No one, not even Dee, knows who he is. He''s completely alone his worst nightmare. But soon he realises who is to blame. His old enemy, Clarice Crowfield, has hijacked a new, all-powerful machine and created a reality where she is in charge! Tim must find Professor Eisenstone, convince Dee
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Faber & Faber Mametz
Book SynopsisFor years afterwards the farmers found them the wasted young, turning up under their plough blades. So run the blunt, grimly beautiful opening lines of the Welsh poet Owen Sheers's elegy for the men, 4,000 of them from the 38th (Welsh) Division, who were killed or wounded in the Battle of Mametz Wood in July 1916 Sheers revisits that chapter of carnage in a stirring, sprawling promenade show He draws on the writings of two survivors in particular. One is the poet David Jones whose fractured, enervated, modernist response to his war-time experiences, In Parenthesis, was hailed as a work of genius by TS Eliot. The other key influence is the writer Llewelyn Wyn Griffith driven to wondering how the sun could shine on this mad cruelty and on the quiet peace of an upland tarn near Snowdon... We end up in dark woods and a place of numb desolation, bombarded by words that pierce the heart and vignettes that capture the stomach-churning sacrifice The finest commemoration of the First
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Faber & Faber Labyrinth Faber Drama
Book SynopsisThree years ago the doomsayers were predicting the end. Financial apocalypse. But the system survived. Because the system works. Time to take advantage of the goodies on offer.'1978, New York. John Anderson is barely out of college and has landed himself a job on Wall Street. His dreams of unimaginable wealth, travel and power are made a reality as he jets around the globe selling loans to developing countries eager to borrow. And there are plenty Mexico, Brazil, ArgentinaBut cracks in the banks' excessive lending strategy soon start to show. Despite the warning signs and their consciences John and his colleagues continue to pursue their targets, threatening to leave them all financially, and morally, bankrupt.Labyrinth premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in September 2016.
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Faber & Faber Macavitys Not There A LifttheFlap Book 1 Old
Book SynopsisBeautifully illustrated by Arthur Robins and with an appeal extending beyond Eliot fans, Macavity''s Not There! will sit alongside classic lift-the-flap books such as Where's Spot? and Dear Zoo.
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Faber & Faber Mary and Mr Eliot
Book SynopsisA rediscovered story of unrequited love which reveals an intimate new portrait of the poet T. S. Eliot and of its author, a formidable woman sidelined by literary history.Heartbreaking and wonderfully told.' Susan Hill, Spectator Books of the YearCompelling ... compulsive.' Margaret Drabble, New StatesmanIn 1938 T.S. Eliot struck up a friendship with Mary Trevelyan, a passionately curious woman and intrepid traveller. Their relationship was cosy and domestic characterised by churchgoing, record-playing, day trips with Mary at the wheel or Eliot in his rolled shirt-sleeves cooking up sausages for dinner. Over the years, Mary came to believe that their friendship might lead to something more . . . but their journey together did not end as she would have hoped.Trevelyan left a unique document of diaries, letters and pictures charting their twenty-year-long relationship in her vivid prose. Erica Wagner has brought this untold stor
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Faber & Faber Who am I again
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Faber & Faber The Black Eden
Book Synopsis''Action-packed and panoramic.'' Observer''Magnificent . . . there won''t be a finer piece of Scottish fiction published this year.'' Big Issue ''A galloping and impressively wide-ranging read.'' Herald (Scotland) ''Gripping.'' Times Literary Supplement 1956, the Scottish Highlands: Aaron and Robbie, a schoolmaster's son and a farmer's boy, are fast friends with a shared passion for diving, but very divergent ideas of what they will do with their lives.Meanwhile, Mark and Ally, bright pupils at Edinburgh's grandest private school, are aspiring to make change in the world one through high finance, the other on the political stage.And Joseph, heir to an Aberdeen trawler-fishing dynasty, is brooding over whether his true ambitions are set higher than his father's succession plan.For each of them, the discovery of oil under the North Sea will make their dreams achievable. But behind the
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Faber & Faber Night Train
Book Synopsis''Jones was a master of the short story [and] Night Train will be an amazing discovery for anyone who cares about literature.'' Philipp Meyer, New York Times bestselling author of The SonA posthumous and definitive collection of new and selected stories by short-fiction icon and National Book Award finalist Thom Jones, with a stunning introduction by Amy BloomThom Jones's stories are high-octane, prose-drunk entertainment. His characters are grifters and drifters, rogues and ne'er-do-wells some lovable, some not but each with a voice that never fails to grab you by the collar. They include Vietnam soldiers, amateur boxers, psych ward veterans and an unforgettable adolescent DJ radio host, among others.Perfectly capturing the essence of this icon of the American short story, Night Train showcases the sheer breadth and power of his inimitable stories.Bleakly and outrageously comic . . . Reading Thom Jones''s fiction
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Faber & Faber Indian Sun The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar
Book SynopsisA Times, Spectator, TLS and BBC Music Magazine Book of the YearA major biography of Ravi Shankar published on the centenary of his birth: the first full portrait of the man and the artist across his extraordinary ninety-two years.
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Faber & Faber Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine
Book SynopsisFaber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. He met Liston's gaze but found it almost impossible to sustain eye contact. Soon it became an exercise in the control of fear. Sonny Liston gave Kid Dynamite the slightest hint of a smile and winked.In the build-up to a fight, Kid Dynamite's head swirls with thoughts of his estranged father, his difficult relationship with his stepfather, the time he met his hero, and the sense that his own life is reaching a moment of change. A masterclass in tone, atmosphere and control, Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine' pays testimony to Thom Jones's unique talent for the short-story form.Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.
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Faber & Faber What Happened
Book Synopsis'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' - William BoydComic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction.
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Faber & Faber Love and Theft
Book Synopsis''Thrilling.'' New York Times Book Review''Pure pleasure'' Sunday Times''A dark jewel'' A. J. Finn''Electrifying'' Robert Crais''The thriller we''ve all been waiting for'' Lincoln ChildWhat price would you put on a second chance?When Alex Cassidy and Diane Alison meet by chance at a party in Princeton, New Jersey, there are instant sparks. Both are single parents living in wealthy suburbia, independent, highly competent and seemingly settled in their lives. She runs a successful catering business. He's part of a crew that robs banks, casinos and jewellery stores around the world. Neither realises initially that their lives have overlapped before, or that their shared history and burgeoning relationship will come to threaten everything they love. As Alex prepares for one final, daunting job, he discovers that he's not the only one with secrets and that both of them are pl
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Faber & Faber Zinnie Harris Plays 1
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Faber & Faber The Loneliness of the LongDistance Cartoonist
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2021 EISNER AWARDS - Best Graphic Memoir and Best Publication DesignAdrian Tomine has more ideas in twenty panels than novelists have in a lifetime.' ZADIE SMITH''A hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking memoir.'' Irish TimesThrough a series of exquisitely observed autobiographical sketches, Adrian Tomine explores his life from an early moment on the playground being bullied, to a more recent experience, lying on a gurney in the hospital, and having the nurse say ''Hey! You''re that cartoonist!'Self-deprecating, honest, and above all else, humorous, Tomine mines his conflicted relationship with comics and writing, and people at large, and once again animates the absurdities of modern life and how we choose to live it.
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Faber & Faber The Secret Public
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Faber & Faber The Secret Public
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Faber & Faber Every Vow You Break
Book SynopsisFrom the author of the Richard and Judy Book Club picks The Kind Worth Killing and Rules for Perfect Murders'Another top-notch thriller . . . it proves the adage: marry for money and you'll earn every penny.' Alice O'Keefe, The Bookseller, Editor's Pick'Hitchcockian chills and thrills abound . . . a twisty tale of survival and deception.' O, The Oprah MagazineAfter a whirlwind, fairytale romance, Abigail Baskin marries freshly-minted Silicon Valley millionaire Bruce Lamb.For their honeymoon, he whisks her away to an exclusive retreat at a friend's resort off the Maine coast on Heart Pond Island. But once there, Abigail's perfect new life threatens to crash down around her as she recognises one of their fellow guests as the good looking, charismatic stranger who weeks earlier had seduced her at her own Bachelorette party...'Peter Swanson is in the ranks of the killer elite alongside Tana French and G
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Faber & Faber Nine Lives
Book Synopsis'Deliciously ingenious' Daily Mail'Smartly entertaining' Washington PostIf you're on the list you're marked for death...The envelope is unremarkable. There is no return address. It contains a single, folded, sheet of white paper.The envelope drops through the mail slot like any other piece of post. But for the nine complete strangers who receive it - each of them recognising just one name, their own, on the enclosed list - it will be the most life altering letter they ever receive. It could also be the last, as one by one, they start to meet their end.But why?What readers are saying:'It gripped me from start to finish.''Prepare to be blown away.''Another fast paced edge of your seat masterclass.''What an absolutely wild ride.''Best Peter Swanson murder mystery I've read.''An absolute winner . . . A must read for lovers of a good t
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Faber & Faber Wild Pets
Book Synopsis''Smart and funny... Wild Pets is an instant set text of the emerging canon of millennial fiction.''Guardian''A wickedly funny and emotionally complex novel.''Jenny Offill, author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation''An impresive, cumulatively powerful first outing.''Daily Mail''A ripe and excellent debut... funny and smart and human and true.''Andrew O''Hagan, author of MayfliesWild Pets follows Iris, Ezra and Nance in the years after university. They fall in and out of bed with each other, reread The Art of War, grieve the closing of Fabric and write book proposals on the history of salt, while submerging their nights in drink and drugs. Confronting adulthood with high wit and low behaviour against contemporary political and social turmoil, these young men and women seem to have everything going for them. So why are they st
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Faber & Faber Tell Me What I Am
Book SynopsisIt kept me awake desperate to find out what had happened to affect them all so badly.' 5* reader review'This is a beautifully written novel with powerfully drawn characters.' 5* reader review'Had me hooked...
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Faber & Faber Boy Friends
Book SynopsisAn intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents.''As perfect a portrait of friendship as I''ve ever read.''STEPHEN FRY''Lucid, lyrical, loaded . . . A love letter to friendship.''JACKIE KAY''A lovely book: bright and heartfelt, funny and refreshing.''ANDREW O''HAGAN''A beautiful, moving, life-affirming book.''IAN RANKINFriendships might just be the greatest love affairs of our lives . . .In 2018 poet and author Michael Pedersen lost a cherished friend, Scott Hutchison, soon after their collective voyage into the landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Just weeks later, Michael began to write to him. As he confronts the bewildering process of grief, what starts as a love letter to one magical, coruscating human soon becomes a paean to all the gorgeous male friendships that have transformed his life.''Boy Friends sees Pedersen illuminate these companions with a poet's eye, a comedian's timing and a lover's care.''OBSERVER''Written with enough electricity that it seems to jolt off the page . . . Boy Friends opens up conversations about . . . the brunt of suicide, the circumstances of certain types of Scottish masculinity and where friendships fit into that.''SUNDAY TIMES
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Faber & Faber Godspeed
Book Synopsis'Mesmerising.' The Herald, Best Books to read this summer'A glorious novel, as lyrical as it is suspenseful - breathless, tense, and shimmering.' STEPH CHA'My daddy always told me, if it looks too good to be true - then it probably is.'Bart, Teddy and Cole have been best friends since childhood. Having founded their own small-town construction company, they yearn to build a legacy, something to leave behind to their families. So when Gretchen Connors, a mysterious millionaire lawyer from California, approaches them with a stunning, almost formidable project in the mountains above their town, the three friends convince themselves it's the job which will secure their future.But what is Gretchen hiding from them? And why does the build have to be complete by Christmas, a near-impossible deadline? With the lines between ambition and greed more slippery and dangerous than the three friends ever imagined, how far will they push t
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Faber & Faber Harsh Times
Book SynopsisTHE NEW NOVEL FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE"A wildly enjoyable book; the 85-year-old Vargas Llosa is as sharp and mordantly funny as ever." Financial Times"A compelling and propulsive literary thriller." Hari Kunzru, New York Times Book Review"A splendidly rich and absorbing novel." The Scotsman"Compelling . . . full of intrigue, backstabbing and shifting power dynamics." Irish TimesGuatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power encouraged the spread of Soviet communism in the Americas. Mario Vargas Llosa has written a drama on a world stage, in which some persecutors end up as victims of the very plot they helped construct. Ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive, Harsh Times is a story of international conspiracie
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Faber & Faber The Drowned
Book SynopsisThe richly atmospheric new Strafford and Quirke murder mystery, from theSunday Times bestselling author of Snow.Hehad seen drowned people. A sight not to be forgotten.1950s,rural Ireland. A loner comes across a mysteriously empty car in a field. Knowing he shouldn't approach, but unable to hold back, he soon finds himselfembroiled in a troubling missing person's case, as a husband claims his wifemay have thrown herself into the sea.Calledin from Dublin to investigate is Detective Inspector Strafford, who soon turnsto his old ally - the flawed but brilliant pathologist Quirke - a man he islinked to in increasingly complicated ways.
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Faber & Faber Happiness Falls
Book SynopsisTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROPRAH DAILY''S NO. 1 SUMMER PAPERBACK 2024A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICKFINALIST FOR THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARDAMAZON EDITOR'S CHOICE & TOP TWENTY NOVEL OF THE YEAR''A Brilliant, satisfying, compassionate mystery.'' GABRIELLE ZEVIN ''Bittersweet, sensitive and moving.''GUARDIAN''I can't remember a book with more layers. . . I was riveted through the last page.''JODI PICOULTMia Parkson's life is turned upside down when her stay-at-home dad, the family's anchor, goes missing. The only witness? Eugene her younger, nonspeaking teenage brother.As the Police struggle for leads, and her mother and twin brother struggle to keep things together at home, Mia gains access to key clues about her father's disappearance. Headstrong, hyper analytical, and with secrets of her own, she decides to try and solve t
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Faber & Faber Me and Mr Jones
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Faber & Faber A Talent for Murder
Book SynopsisIt was at this moment that Martha had two competing thoughts. One, that she'd married a nice man. And, two, that he was a complete and utter stranger to her. After an unexpected, whirlwind romance, quiet librarian Martha married Alan. But when she thinks she sees his mask slip, she starts to fear that the conferences he travels the country to attend might be a cover for something far more sinister.As she secretly starts to map his movements she unearths a string of dead women, but could these two things really be linked? Unsure of her own instincts, Martha turns to an old friend, Lily Kintner, who once helped her escape a toxic relationship in grad school. But what Martha doesn't know is that Lily has a dark side of her own . . .
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Faber & Faber Avalon
Book SynopsisShe spends her days tending plants, slogging through high school and imagining what life could be if she had been born to a different family.Then she meets Peter - a charming, troubled college student from the East Coast - who launches his teaching career by initiating her into the world of art.
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Faber & Faber Patriots
Book SynopsisIf the politicians cannot save Russia, then we businessmen must. We have not just the responsibility but the duty to become Russian heroes.1991. The Fall of the Soviet Union.With the dawning of a new Russia, there are winners and losers, and today's patriot can fast become tomorrow's traitor.As a new generation of oligarchs fights to seize control, we follow billionaire businessman Boris Berezovsky the kingmaker' behind Vladimir Putin from the president''s inner circle to public enemy number one, in this unflinching story of ambition and the dangers of loyalty and love.Peter Morgan's Patriots opened at the Almeida Theatre, London, in July 2022.
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Faber & Faber Sergey Prokofiev Diaries 19241933
Book SynopsisThe third and final volume of Prokofiev's Diaries covers the years 1924 to 1933 when he was living in Paris. Intimate accounts of the successes and disappointments of a great creative artist at the heart of the European arts world between the two world wars jostle with witty and trenchant commentaries on the personalities who made up this world. The Diaries document the complex emotional inner world of a Russian exile uncomfortably aware of the nature of life in Stalin's Russia yet increasingly persuaded that his creative gifts would never achieve full maturity separated from the culture, people and land of his birthplace. Since even Prokofiev knew that the USSR was hardly the place to commit inner reflections to paper, the Diaries come to an end after June 1933 although it would be another three years before he, together with his wife and children, finally exchanged the free if materially uncertain life of a cosmopolitan Parisian celebrity for Soviet citizenshiTrade Review'The third and final instalment of Prokofiev's diaries . . . in AnthonyPhillips's excellently clear translation . . . These diaries are addictive andthe effect of not seeing the life through his eyes anymore is a wrench . . . Astupendous work.' - Alexander Waugh, Literary Review'Should appeal well beyond Prokofiev's immediate fan base to readers intriguedby the siren song of Christian Science and / or sympatheticoutsider's take on the Diaghilev set.' - David Gutman, Gramphone
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Faber & Faber Cuckoo
Book SynopsisWe've got our little routines. She'll text me if she's hungry or wants anything. Or I'll say, Fancy an orange squash?' And she'll send me a thumbs up. Doreen and her two grown up daughters sit at the table eating fish and chips, distracted by their phones. Upstairs, seventeenyear-old Megyn has locked herself in her grandmother's bedroom and is refusing to come out. And no one is entirely sure why. Michael Wynne's dark comedy questions the safety of home and the different ways we cope in an increasingly uncertain world. Cuckoo opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in July 2023.
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Faber & Faber The Boyhood of Cain
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Faber & Faber Fanatic Heart
Book SynopsisFrom the prize-winning, international bestselling author of Schindler's Ark - a sweeping, immersive tale of the life and exploits of Irish patriot John Mitchel.
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