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Faber & Faber Circle Mirror Transformation
Book SynopsisThanks, you guys. I think this was a really, really great start.Five lost people come together at a community centre class to try and find some meaning in their lives. Counting to ten can be harder than you think. Over six tangled weeks their lives become knotted together in this tender and funny play.Annie Baker''s Circle Mirror Transformation won a New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the 2010 Obie Award for Best New American Play. It was voted one of the top ten plays of 2009 by the New York Times, Time Out and the New Yorker. It premiered in the UK as part of the Royal Court''s Theatre Local strand of site specific productions across London.Trade ReviewThe way that a complete picture of each of the characters is built up is stunningly accurate. A little room sucks in the whole world -- Aleks Sierz The Arts Desk A disarming surprise... remarkably open-minded in its supple, low-key way, shifting from the preposterous to the poignant, the tender to the silly, with a sharply observant but uncensorious spirit. -- Paul Taylor Independent Baker's writing is compassionate, cinematic (in an understated sort of way) and wonderfully, wonderfully droll. -- Andrzej Lukowski Time Out Baker is a perceptive observer of human frailty. -- Henry Hitchings Evening Standard A quirky, entertaining and quietly poignant piece... Scenes as apparently aimless as a group count-up to 10 or a dialogue improvised using nonsense words acquire a sudden powerful intensity as latent emotions bubble to the surface. -- Dominic Cavendish Daily Telegraph
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Faber & Faber GB84
Book SynopsisStylish, riveting and appalling, GB84 is a shocking fictional documentation of the violence, sleaze and fraudulence that characterised Thatcher''s Britain.Great Britain. 1984. The miners'' strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civil war in fifty years, setting the government against the people.In his trademark visceral prose, Peace describes the insidious workings of the boardroom negotiations and the increasingly anarchic coalfield battles; the struggle for influence in government and the dwindling powers of the NUM; and the corruption, intrigue and dirty tricks which run through the whole like a fault in a seam of coal.David Peace has written a novel extraordinary in its reach, and unflinching in its capacity to recreate the brutality and passion that changed the course of British history in the late twentieth century.''A genuine British original.'' Guardian''Peace is a writer of such immense talent
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Faber & Faber A Taste for Death
Book SynopsisTHE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLING ADAM DALGLIESH SERIES FROM THE QUEEN OF ENGLISH CRIME' (Guardian) A legend.' VAL MCDERMIDP. D. James took the classic crime novel and turned up the dial.' MICK HERRONOne of the best mysteries I have had the pleasure to read.' 5* reader reviewPERFECT FOR FANS OF VAL MCDERMID, RUTH RENDELL AND ELLY GRIFFITHS__________________________________________________________________________________No one joins the murder squad who hasn't a taste for death.Two men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew''s Church, Paddington. Their throats have been brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a recently-resigned government minister; the other is a homeless man known only as a local alcoholic. Their deaths will be the first case for Commander Dalgliesh's new team, who have been tasked with investigating crimes of particular sensitivity. But as the Berowne family''s veneer of prosperous gentility begins to crack and Dalgliesh uncovers more about the dead men, he struggles to keep his customary objectivity. Can he get to the bottom of the ugly and dangerous secrets swirling this case in time to prevent yet another death?__________________________________________________________________________________A cunningly compulsive work . . . with a breathless, bravura finale of heart-pounding suspense.' Sunday TimesSplendidly suspenseful . . . a triumph and a treat.'' GuardianIt's oh so compelling. Enjoy.' Sunday Telegraph**Now a major Channel 5 series**__________________________________________________________________________________READERS LOVE THE ADAM DALGLEISH SERIES:Adam Dalgleish is one of the best characters in modern detective fiction.' 5* reader reviewIf you are not already an Adam Dalgliesh fan, I urge you to become one . . . James can describe a scene or delineate a character with precision and depth, like no other writer I have read . . . I usually stay up all night to read a P. D. James novel once I start one.' 5* reader reviewI would never give less than 5 stars to any P. D. James book. She is one of a kind, always constant, always wonderful writing, always great characters, and always a good mystery that you cannot put down.' 5* reader reviewP.D. James writes mysteries for ordinary people. Her characters are relatable and her hero is dynamic. But don''t expect cell phones or computers. Her stories are strictly old school, which is what I love about them.' 5* reader reviewCrime writing at its very best!' 5* reader reviewPRAISE FOR P. D. JAMES:P. D. James is the crème de la crème of crime writers. Her books are shrewd puzzles, full of wit and depth.' IAN RANKINNobody can put the reader in the eye of the storm quite like P. D. James.' SUNDAY EXPRESSOne of the literary greats. Her sense of place was exquisite, characterisation and plotting unrivalled.' MARI HANNAHJames manages a depth and intelligence that few in her trade can match.' THE TIMESThere are very few thriller writers who can compete with P. D. James at her best.' SPECTATOR The queen of English crime.' GUARDIAN
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Faber & Faber Come Closer
Book Synopsis'A dark, seductive cocktail of a thriller, with a splash of black humour and a twist of horror.' Francine Toon, author of PineThere was no reason to assume anything out of the ordinary was going on.Strange noises in the apartment.Impulsive behaviour.Intense dreams.It wasn't like everything went wrong all at once.Shoplifting.Fighting.Blackouts.There must be a reasonable explanation for all this.'It will scare the pants off you. It is a perfect horror novel.' Paul Tremblay'A short, sharp shocker . . . Relentlessly creepy.' Sunday Times'Deeply scary.' The Times'Terrifying.' Daily Mail'Sinister.' Time Out'Deeply creepy.' Irish Times
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Faber & Faber Wild Thing
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Faber & Faber The Farmers Wife
Book SynopsisBeautiful.' Daily Mail''True, unflinching, powerful, lyrical'' Kate Mosse''Wonderful, inviting, wholesome.'' Observer''Beautiful and very honest.'' CAITLIN MORAN''It''s quite an achievement to shine a light of truth on the often idealised, always understated, role of the farmer''s wife.'' RAYNOR WINNThis honest and heartwarming memoir offers a portrait of the labour and glory of keeping a home and raising a family. Weaving past and present, Helen Rebanks shares her highs and lows, from the emotional journey to the birth of her first child, and the endless improvisation of each night's dinner, to the dog gobbling up her daughter's freshly-made birthday cake. These are days that have shaped her, and the ways she finds the quiet strength to keep going. In its own quiet way, [The Farmer's Wife] is a manifesto: every woman has the right to choose the life they want.' Mail on Sunday
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Faber & Faber Pigeonholed
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Faber & Faber four quartets
Book SynopsisFour Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot''s career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, ''Burnt Norton'', ''East Coker'', ''The Dry Salvages'' and ''Little Gidding'', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire generation, in the midst of war and doubt, that confirmed it as an enduring masterpiece.
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Faber & Faber Complete Stories
Book SynopsisThis is the complete collection of stories from one of the most original and powerful American writers of the twentieth century. Including A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge, this collection also contains several stories only available in this volume.
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Faber & Faber The Less Deceived
Book SynopsisPhilip Larkin''s second collection, The Less Deceived was published by The Marvell Press in 1955, and now appears for the first time in Faber covers.The eye can hardly pick them out From the cold shade they shelter in, Till wind distresses tail and mane; Then one crops grass, and moves about - The other seeming to look on - And stands anonymous again. from ''At Grass''
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Faber & Faber Moondial
Book SynopsisA new edition of the much-loved classic story of time travel, ghosts and friendship.Even before she came to Belton, Minty Cane had known that she was a witch, or something very like it . . .Minty is the kind of girl who notices things. Pockets of cold air on a stairway. Cries on the wind. Ghosts.On night-time jaunts from the house where she''s staying while her mother recovers from an accident, Minty stumbles upon a moondial which takes her back in time. She finds Tom, a sickly kitchen boy, and Sarah, a girl with a birthmark who is only allowed out at night because her family think she has the mark of the devil . . .Can Minty save her friends, or will she get stuck in the past . . .?''Fresh and entertaining.'' Publishers Weekly''Carefully wrought and evanescent as a ghost story should be, this will be enjoyed by any admirer of Tom''s Midnight Garden.'' Kirkus
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Faber & Faber The Impossible Fortress
Book SynopsisIt's 1987. Ronald Reagan is in the White House. Prince and Madonna are on the radio. And Wheel of Fortune hostess Vanna White is on the cover of Playboy. Billy and his friends are desperate to get hold of a copy, but no shopkeeper is going to sell one to three fourteen-year-old gaming nerds. The only thing for it is a heist of the local shop. But as they set out on their mission to enter one impossible fortress, they have no idea what lies ahead . . .
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Faber & Faber Another Time Faber 90th Anniversary Edition
Book SynopsisAnother Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of which date from the early thirties, are about people, places and the intellectual climate of the times, and they show greater variety of tone and technique than in any previous book of Auden''s. Some of his most famous and often quoted (or misquoted) lines appear in their original form, including the text of two poems in particular - ''Spain 1937'' and ''September 1,1939'' - that he later altered or repudiated.This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber''s publishing over the decades.
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Faber & Faber The Golden Mole
Book SynopsisThe world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings.Rare and magical book.' Bill BrysonA witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's most wondrous creatures.' ObserverExquisite and timely.' Maggie O'Farrell** Shortlisted for the Waterstones and Foyles Book of the Year **** Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing **In The Golden Mole, Katherine Rundell, the award-winning author of Super-Infinite and Impossible Creatures, takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world's strangest and most awe-inspiring animals, including pangolins, wombats, lemurs and seahorses. But each of these animals is endangered. And so, this most passionately persuasive and sharply funny book is also an urgent, inspiring clarion call: to treasure and act to save nature's vanishing wonders, before it is too late.Deeply affecting, intimate and wildly funny . . . I loved it.' Edmund de WaalA wondrous ode to nature's astonishing beauty and an elegy for all the life we are in the midst ofdestroying.' Amia SrinivasanAn exuberant celebration of everything from bats, crows and hedgehogs to narwhals and wombats . . . Rundell is incapable of writing a dull sentence.' ObserverThere is a constant joy in the book . . . A sense throughout of delight and wonder, and a reminder thatthese emotions also matter may even save us. This is the point.' New StatesmanKatherine Rundell''s book The Golden Mole was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 04-11-2023
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Faber & Faber Tales of the Suburbs
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Faber & Faber A New New Me
Book SynopsisThe new novel from a literary star - brilliant and deeply relatable.''Brilliantly fun.'' OBSERVEROne of the best writers alive today.' STYLIST''Audacious, incisive and very funny.'' DAILY MAILKinga is a woman who is just trying to make it through the week.There's a Kinga for every day: on Mondays, you can catch Kinga A deleting food delivery apps. By Friday, Kinga E is happy to spend the days soaking, wine-drunk, in the bath.Kingas A-G, perhaps unsurprisingly, live a varied life between them is a professional matchmaker, a scent-crazed perfumer and a window cleaner, all with varying degrees of apathy, anger, introversion and bossiness. At least three of them are Team Toxic.It's an arrangement that's not without its fair share of admin, grudges and half-truths. But when Kinga A discovers a man tied up in their apartment, the Kingas have to reckon with the possibility that one of them might be planning to destroy them all.Readers loved A New New Me:''Gleeful . . . Reading this book is like being the kind of drunk where the night dissolves into a chaos of bizarre events.'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐This book was both kaleidoscopic but so real . . . desperately need to read more of Oyeyemi's writing!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Strange, bizarre, funny, so playful . . . There's slapstick comedy, meandering anecdotes, and a tantalising central mystery, which the Kinga's will work out, if they just all stop arguing for a minute. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''I LOVED the writing . . . In 7 chapters you get to know Kinga in all her sarcastic glory . . . This was my first Helen Oyeyemi and I will look out for more to read.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Faber & Faber The Night of Baba Yaga
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Faber & Faber The Green Month
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Faber & Faber Stop All the Clocks
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Faber & Faber Ted Hughes
Book SynopsisIn this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature.Ted Hughes (1930-98) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957. His last collection, Birthday Letters, was published in 1998 and won the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Forward Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1998.
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Faber & Faber The Damned Utd
Book SynopsisThe hugely acclaimed novel of ''70s football and the turmoil of the game''s most charismatic and controversial manager, from the bestselling author of GB84 and Red or Dead.One of Mike Atherton''s ''Top Ten Best Sports Books'' in The TimesIn 1974 the brilliant and controversial Brian Clough made perhaps his most eccentric decision: he accepted the position of Leeds United manager. A successor to Don Revie, his bitter adversary, Clough was to last just 44 days.In one of the most acclaimed British novels of recent years - subsequently made into a film starring Michael Sheen - David Peace takes us into the mind and thoughts of Ol'' Big ''Ead himself, and brings vividly to life one of football''s most complex and fascinating characters.Trade Review"'The most extraordinary novel about football yet to appear.' Tim Martin, Independent on Sunday"
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Faber & Faber Spies
Book SynopsisA SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYIn the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite. But the two boys start to suspect all is not as it seems when one day Keith announces a disconcerting discovery: the Germans have infiltrated his own family. And when the secret underground world they have dreamed up emerges from the shadows they find themselves engulfed in mysteries far deeper and more painful than they had bargained for.Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award.
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Faber & Faber Tom Stoppard
Book SynopsisShot through with Stoppard's voice, and illuminating all his plays, Lee's gripping narrative draws on unprecedented access to archive material, interviews and long conversations with Stoppard himself. She traces the dramatic story of his family's flight from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, his sudden leap to fame, his personal life and his dazzling successes. A riveting account of a very public and very private man.
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Faber & Faber The Gift of Dark Hollow Kieran Larwood The Five
Book SynopsisThe legend of Podkin One-Ear continues in this second Five Realms'' adventure from the winner of the Blue Peter Best Story Award.The bard tiptoes out of his room, the crow-dream still echoing in his head, making him twitch at imaginary creaks of iron wings . . .The bard must leave Thornbury. It is not safe for him to stay. Rue, his new apprentice, travels with him keen to learn his trade and hear the next installment in the legend of Podkin One-Ear . . .Podkin and his fellow rabbits have been sheltering in Dark Hollow after their battle with Scramashank. Paz tends to the rabbits with sleeping sickness; Crom meets with the war council . . . Podkin has nothing to do! Frustrated, Podkin goes exploring and discovers an abandoned underground chamber. Armed with the Gift of Dark Hollow, Podkin learns to moonstride, and Paz is rewarded with a magical gift of her own . . .''A spellbinding story full of fri
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Faber & Faber An English Murder
Book SynopsisThe snow is thick, the phone line is down, and no one is getting in or out of Warbeck Hall. With friends and family gathered round the fire, all should be set for a perfect Christmas, but as the bells chime midnight, a mysterious murder takes place. Who can be responsible? The scorned young lover? The lord's passed-over cousin? The social climbing politician's wife? The Czech history professor? The obsequious butler? And perhaps the real question is: can any of them survive long enough to tell the tale?
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Faber & Faber Bad Panda For Sale
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Faber & Faber Greenlaw L Vast Extent
Book Synopsis''[Greenlaw] wields her erudition lightly.'' Sunday TimesRemarkable, visionary.' CELIA PAULIndescribably brilliant.' Daily TelegraphKaleidoscopic.' GuardianA rare pleasure . . . rewarding and thought-provoking.' Irish TimesFrom the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is a constellation of exploded essays about light and image, seeing and the unseen. Each is a record of how thought builds and ideas emerge, aligning art, myth, strange voyages and scientific scrutiny with a poet's response so that they cast light upon each other.In this original and illuminating work, Lavinia Greenlaw invites us to observe our world and beyond with a new sensitivity.
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Faber & Faber Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
Book SynopsisLose yourself in this classic prize-winning memoir of life in 1950s Cyprus on the brink of revolution by the legendary king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. ''Stunning.'' André Aciman ''Masterly ... Casts a spell.'' Jan Morris''Invades the reader''s every sense ... Remarkable.'' Victoria Hislop''These days I am admiring and re-admiring Lawrence Durrell.'' Elif Shafak''Our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean.'' Richard Holmes''Exceptional ... Revelatory ... A master.'' Observer''He writes as an artist, as well as a poet Profoundly beautiful.'' New StatesmanCyprus, 1953. As the island fights for independence from British colonial rule, ancient conflicts between Turkish and Greek Cypriots trouble the glittering Mediterranean waters. Into the brewing political storm enters Trade Review'Masterly ... Casts a spell.' - Jan Morris'Invades the reader's every sense ... Remarkable.' - Victoria Hislop'Our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean.' - Richard Holmes'Exceptional ... Revelatory ... A master.' - Observer'He writes as an artist, as well as a poet . Profoundly beautiful.' - New Statesman
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Faber & Faber Kofi and the Rap Battle Summer
Book Synopsis''Hilarious and full of heart.'' A. M. Dassu''Will inspire a whole generation of music-lovers.'' Rashmi Sirdeshpande''Fizzing with originality and energy.'' Katya BalenKofi had an idea . . . one big lightning bolt of an idea that hit him like electricity. And all it needed was Kelvin's incredible memory for words. Kofi is used to stuff going wrong, he''s usually in detention or about to be. But when he finds out his best friend Kelvin has a photographic memory, he comes up with a genius money-making scheme. The whole school is obsessed with music, but no one can ever make out the words, so the boys hit the jackpot selling a new fanzine full of song lyrics: PAPER JAM. It''s not long before one of the teacher''s tells Kofi: You could be a real leader at this school, you know that?' and . . . suddenly it''s turning out to be the best summer ever!
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Faber & Faber FF23 THE COLONY
Book SynopsisAN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022Vivid and memorable.' SARAH MOSS''Luminous.'' Observer''I utterly ADORED it.'' MARIAN KEYESHe handed the easel to the boatman, reaching down the pier wall towards the sea.Mr Lloyd has decided to travel to the island by boat without engine the authentic experience.Unbeknownst to him, Mr Masson will also soon be arriving for the summer. Both will strive to encapsulate the truth of this place - one in his paintings, the other by capturing its speech, the language he hopes to preserve.But the people who live on this rock three miles long and half-a-mile wide have their own views on what is being recorded, what is being taken and what is given in return. Soft summer days pass, and the islanders are forced to question what they value and what they desire. As the autumn beckons, and the visitors head home, there will be a reckoning.''Beautifully written.' STELLA, The Telegraph''The Colony contains multitudes. . . with much of it just visible on the surface, like the flicker of a smile or a shark in the water.'' The TimesThe Colony is a novel about big, important things.' Financial Times''Beautiful, haunting and incredibly powerful book.'' FÍONA SCARLETTTrade Review'I've always believed that good fiction can go to the beating heart of human reality in ways more likely to resonate with a reader than any textbook. A good novel strengthens empathy as well as the imagination and encourages us to see another world from a perspective that travels beyond our own interests. And this novel is better than good. Its beautifully realised lament for lost language and cultural sustainability has universal relevance.' - Canberra Times'Intelligent and provocative . . . What a relief it is to find a novel that treats the reader as a grown-up, that is fresh without chasing literary fashion, provocative but not shouty, and idiosyncratic but fully satisfying from the strange comedy of its opening pages to its decisive conclusion . . . The Colony contains multitudes - on families, on men and women, on rural communities - with much of it just visible on the surface, like the flicker of a smile or a shark in the water.' - The Times'Austere and stark . . . a story about language and identity, about art, oppression, freedom and colonialism. The Colony is a novel about big, important things.' - Financial Times'A vivid and memorable book about art, land and language, love and sex, youth and age. Big ideas tread lightly through Audrey Magee's strong prose.' - SARAH MOSS'The Colony: so brilliant in its quiet tragedy, so revealing in its precision. It haunts me.' - TSITSI DANGAREMBGA'A careful interrogation, The Colony expertly explores the mutability of language and art, the triumphs and failures inherent to the process of creation and preservation.' - RAVEN LEILANI'The Colony is brimming with ideas about identity and soul; a canny, challenging, and never less than engrossing read.' - LISA MCINERNEY'The Colony is a brilliant and thoughtfully calibrated commentary about the nature and balance of power. There is violence here, but, most impressively, Audrey Magee captures that more insidious cruelty-the kind masked as protection, as manners.' - MARY BETH KEANE'Audrey Magee has written a lyrical, rich, and emotionally powerful novel. The Colony comes alive like a brooding and beautiful canvas painted off the Irish coast.' - DOMINIC SMITH
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Faber & Faber Molloy
Book SynopsisBut as Moran's physical and mental state deteriorate, his narrative starts to mirror Molloy's in mysterious ways. Molloy is the first of the three great novels Samuel Beckett produced during his 'frenzy of writing' in the late 1940s.
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Faber & Faber Blankets
Book Synopsis20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION''It''s beautifully written and drawn, it''s very poetic and very romantic. I highly recommend it.'' ELENA FAVILLI''Moving, tender, beautifully drawn, painfully honest and probably the most important graphic novel since Jimmy Corrigan.'' NEIL GAIMAN''Blankets is a classic in every genre it touches.'' STEPHEN CHBOSKY, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower''One of the greatest love stories ever written and surely the best ever drawn.'' JOSS WHEDONWrapped in the snowfall of a blustery Midwestern winter, Blankets is the tale of two brothers growing up in rural isolation, and of the budding romance between two young lovers. A tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of a fall from grace and the origins of faith, Blankets is a profound and utterly beautiful work.
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Faber & Faber Never Let Me Go. Twentieth Anniversary Edition
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Faber & Faber Birthday Letters Faber Poetry
Book SynopsisTed Hughes''s Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes''s only account of his relationship with Plath and of the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and to her death. The book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year. ''To read [Birthday Letters] is to experience the psychic equivalent of the bends. It takes you down to levels of pressure where the undertruths of sadness and endurance leave you gasping.'' Seamus Heaney ''Even if it were possible to set aside its biographical value . . . its linguistic, technical and imaginative feats would guarantee its future. Hughes is one of the most important poets of the century and this is his greate
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Faber & Faber Woods etc.
Book SynopsisWoods etc. is Alice Oswald''s third collection of poems, and follows the success of her widely acclaimed river-poem Dart, which was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Extending the concerns of Dart and written over a period of several years, these poems combine abrupt honesty with an exuberant rhetorical confidence, at times recalling the oral and anonymous tradition with which they share such affinity.Trade Review"'Her poems... are propulsive, forward-pulsing, knitting one line to another. This poet is acutely alive in the world.' The Economist"
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Faber & Faber The Unconsoled
Book Synopsis*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available*Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give . . .On first publication in 1995, The Unconsoled was met in some quarters with bewilderment and vilification, in others with the highest praise. One commentator asked, Has Ishiguro gone for greatness or has he gone mad?' Over the years, this uniquely strange and extraordinary novel about a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control has come to be seen by many as being the key work and a turning point in his career.A masterpiece. It is above all a book devoted to the human heart.' Rachel Cusk, The TimesThe most original and remarkable book he has so far produced.' New York Times Book ReviewOne of the strangest books in memory.' TLSI've never read a book like it.
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Faber & Faber Touching From a Distance
Book SynopsisThe only in-depth biographical account of the legendary lead singer of Joy Division, written by his widow. Includes a foreword by Jon Savage and an introduction by Joy Division drummer, Steven Morris. Revered by his peers and idolized by his fans, Ian Curtis left behind a legacy rich in artistic genius. Mesmerizing on stage but introverted and prone to desperate mood swings in his private life, Curtis died by his own hand on 18 May 1980.Touching from a Distance documents how, with a wife, child and impending international fame, Curtis was seduced by the glory of an early grave. Regarded as the essential book on the essential icon of the post-punk era, Touching from a Distance includes a full set of Curtis''s lyrics and a discography and gig list.
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Faber & Faber Crossing the Water Faber Poetry
Book SynopsisCrossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath's life. Published posthumously in 1971, they add a startling counterpoint to Ariel, the volume that made her reputation. Readers will recognise some of her most celebrated poems Childless Woman', Mirror', Insomniac' while discovering those still overlooked, including her radio play Three Women. These two extraordinary volumes find their place alongside The Colossus and Ariel in the oeuvre of a singular talent.''Nearly all the poems here have the familiar Plath daring, the same feel of bits of frightened, vibrant, indignant consciousness translated instantly into words and images that blend close, experienced horror and icy, sardonic control.'' Alan Brownjohn, New Statesman
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Faber & Faber Pet
Book SynopsisHow do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?She stumbled backwards, her eyes wide, as the figure started coming out of the canvas...She tried to be brave. Well, she said, her hands only a little shaky, at least tell me what I should call you....Well, little girl, it replied, I suppose you can call me Pet. There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. But when she meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colours and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood, she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also to uncover the truth.In their riveting and
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Faber & Faber Neu Klang
Book SynopsisThe unique and adventurous sounds that German bands like Can, Neu! or Kraftwerk produced in post-war 60s Germany, now known as Krautrock, are considered a blueprint for modern rock music. And the stream of their creative admirers and continuators has been constantly widening since the first fans like David Bowie and Iggy Pop. In Neu Klang, Christoph Dallach interviewed its pioneers and their answers combine to form an oral history that points far beyond the individual band histories.
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Faber & Faber The House of Broken Bricks
Book SynopsisAN INDEPENDENT BEST BOOK OF 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDSBeautifully written.' Prima''An almanac for the heart.'' EVIE WOODS, author of The Lost BookshopTender and powerful.' Observer''A pleasure to read.''SARAH MOSS, author of Ghost WallIf every marriage has its seasons, Richard and Tess's is in a deep winter. As day breaks over the Somerset Levels, Tess watches the chamomile clouds part. This morning, two sunrises graze the frosted floodplains: one rises low over a stretch of willows, while the other shines brightly from beneath the water. The light paints the house a startling crimson: a painful beauty that Tess, Richard and their son Max riddled with grief find easy to ignore.But none of them can ignore Sonny, who desperately wants things to go back to the way they were before. As the seasons change, and the cracks in the bricks let in more light, might this broken family find a way to start to heal? Readers love The House of Broken Bricks:''Gorgeously written, lyrical, atmospheric and emotional.'' @readingnpainting''Brilliant story, a joy to read, couldn't put it down.'' @lucy.reads.a.lot''A masterpiece! Beautifully written, a brilliant debut novel.'' @the_postcard_edit ''Heartwarming and heartbreaking. Tender and shocking. A joy to read.'' @suzannahslibrary''Absolutely spot-on in how it portrays children's emotional intuition, this is a beaut of a book.''
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Faber & Faber It Used to be Witches
Book SynopsisPlayfully blending personal memoir, criticism and candid new interviews with filmmakers from across the LGBTQ+ spectrum, Ryan Gilbey's engaging and dynamic It Used to be Witches is a non-chronological treasure-hunt through queer cinema past and present. Andrew Haigh (All of Us Strangers), Cheryl Dunye (The Watermelon Woman), Isabel Sandoval (Lingua Franca) and Bruce LaBruce (No Skin Off My Ass) are among the directors who reveal how queer artists use film to express their most personal truthsand to challenge, defy and outrage a world that would rather they didn't exist.That world might look rainbow-coloured from some angles, with the likes of Brokeback Mountain, Call Me By Your Name, Moonlight and Portrait of a Lady on Fire winning awards and acclaim. But as queer and trans people find themselves increasingly under attack, It Used to Be Witches asks whether cinema can be an effective weapon of resistance and change, and celebrates an outlaw spirit which refuses to die.
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Faber & Faber Meesh the Bad Demon The Secret of the Fang
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Faber & Faber Sylvia Plaths Tomato Soup Cake
Book SynopsisDine with beloved writers in this ''utterly charming'' (Nina Stibbe) new anthology of their very own favourite recipes, introduced by Bee Wilson.Agatha Christie's hot bean salad.Jack Kerouac''s green pea soup.Allen Ginsberg's cold summer borscht.Daphne du Maurier''s sloe gin.Christopher Isherwood's brownies.Joan Didion''s Mexican chicken.George Orwell''s plum cake.Have you ever wondered what your favourite classic authors cooked - whether as an intimate snack for one or as their showstopping dinner party special? Here''s your chance to wine and dine with the world''s most famous writers in a gorgeous new collection of their most-loved recipes, curated from their archives, letters and diaries. Whet your appetite: there are culinary treats and eccentricities in store ...
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Faber & Faber You Had to Be There
Book SynopsisJodie Harsh arrived in London aged 15, in 2002, heading straight off the train from Canterbury to her first club night at the Astoria. Intoxicated by this initial taste, she didn't leave the party for years, falling in with the right wrong people and exploring the sides of London best experienced under cover of darkness. Throughout the noughties, from Camden and Soho to Mayfair, stretching from Notting Hill to the Hackney Road and Primrose Hill, the city was a messy, beating, slick and sordid melting pot. New music, new fashion, new art, all coming together in a mad heady rush before and during the financial crash of 2008. Scenes collided, exploded, were reborn and shaped, all across the city, at rapid speed. Harsh grabs us by the hand and leads us back to those decadent times, from the Astoria to The Cross, the Soho Revue Bar to Mahiki, Boombox to The End and her famous friends' houses; to a time before social media and cameraphones were ubiquitous, and a life wit
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Faber & Faber Namanlagh
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Faber & Faber Red Plenty
Book SynopsisBizarre and quite brilliant.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesThrilling.' Michael Burleigh, Sunday TelegraphFrancis Spufford has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature.' Nick HornbyThe Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called ''the planned economy'', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working.Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan, every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche and sputniks would lead the way to the stars. And it''s about the sc
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Faber & Faber The Barracks
Book SynopsisThe iconic debut novel by ''one of the greatest writers of our era'' (Hilary Mantel) and ''the Irish novelist everyone should read'' (Colm Tóibín).Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; her husband is straining to break free from the servile security of the police force; and her own life, threatened by illness, seems to be losing the last vestiges of its purpose. Moving between tragedy and savage comedy, desperation and joy, John McGahern''s first novel is one of haunting power.''Marvellous.'' Susan Hill, Times''Wise and compelling ... Elegiac and graceful.'' David Mitchell''I have admired, even loved, John McGahern''s work since his first novel.'' Melvyn Bragg''Reminds one of the young Joyce ... McGahern is the real thing.'' Spectator
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