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Author: Mary TrevelyanFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 266g, 320 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2023'Completely fascinating, revelatory . . . A classic of its kind.' - WILLIAM BOYD'Compelling ....

Ariel , first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. Including poems such as...

Author: Liam McIlvanneyFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 216mm, 264g, 240 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2011The Good of the Novel is a collection of specially commissioned essays - edited by...

Author: William AtkinsFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 266g, 320 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2023'Breathtakingly good . . . Exiles is completely sui generis.' - EDMUND DE WAAL'Atkins spins...

Author: Virginia Cowles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Paris as it fell to the Nazis London on the first day of the Blitz Berlin the day Germany invaded Poland...

Author: T. S. EliotFormat: Paperback, 250mm x 250mm, 198g, 32 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2017Jellicle Cats come one and all. Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball.Join the Jellicle...

'This extraordinary novel had me hooked from start to finish, and left me with so much to brood on that I felt giddy ... A fascinating, morally complex, deeply unsettling...

Author: Emily Holmes Coleman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'Extraordinary. A fascinating and unexpected delight. Coleman shows howwomen might write if we were free - and how murderous we'd...

From a master of contemporary Indian fiction, an expertly crafted and taut family drama, set over the course of four days. 'Extraordinary.' Geetanjali Shree 'A writer of rare and wonderful...

This lost classic coming-of-age tale is a tragicomic portrait of one young woman's university breakdown and recovery, introduced by Daisy Johnson. I wanted the knack of existing. I did not...

'Absolutely, absolutely incredible.' Karl Ove Knausgaard 'A total explosion.' Nicole Krauss 'Unforgettable.' Hernan Di az 'Breathtaking.' Chetna Maroo 'Brilliant.' Jon McGregor 'Absolutely marvellous.' Lauren Groff ** A NEW YORKER AND...

Author: Lucas RijneveldFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 240g, 288 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2020*WINNER OF THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2020*'One of the best debut novels I have ever...

Author: Kay Dick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 'I remembered how they began, a parody for the newspapers. No one wrote about them now.' The Sussex coast. Sunsets paint...

Author: Sylvia Plath Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle...

Author: Kirsty GunnFormat: Paperback, 160mm x 200mm, 200g, 104 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 1994A twelve-year-old girl spends summers at a lake with her parents and little brother. The...

'A forgotten classic: darkly funny and startlingly contemporary, full of witty one-liners and stop-you-in-your-tracks observations about romance, work, and life.' (Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually ). Lord, I have been...

Author: Milan KunderaFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 196mm, 131g, 160 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 1999Sometimes - perhaps only for an instant - we fail to recognise a companion; for...

The day they moved in was a memorable one for me. Not because of them, for I couldn't know what they were to bring into my life, but because of...

Author: Claire Keegan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 The evening is fine. In the sky a few early stars are shining of their own accord. She watches the dog...

Beautifully illustrated by Alice Tye, this is a cornerstone of modernist fiction and an incisive critique of wealth, class and the inescapable heartache of lost love. In his blue gardens...

'Pitch-perfect.' - Ali Smith 'So original.' - Hilary Mantel 'Stunning.' - Isabel Waidner 'Her beastly, risky best.' - Eley Williams When my species has destroyed itself, we may need yours...

Author: D. J. EnrightBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber & Faber Limited, 1989Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: UnblemishedPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe Faber Book of Fevers and Frets is an edited collection by D. J. Enright,...

Author: Gwendolyn Brooks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 What, what, am I to do with all of this life? Maud Martha Brown is a little girl growing up on...

This is the story of Faberge's Imperial Easter eggs - of their maker, of the tsars who commissioned them, of the middlemen who sold them and of the collectors who...

Lose yourself in this tumultuous Swedish family saga, introduced by Sarah Moss ('a masterpiece') In these parts, they called her Queen. And she was queen of rags, of sagging mouldering...

Author: Geoffrey GrigsonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Faber, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis anthology, The Faber Book Of Epigrams And Epitaphs, presents a comprehensive...

Author: Edna O'Brien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 An unnamed protagonist is on holiday with her new, much-married lover, in the company of the monstrously rich. 'How long would...

Big Brother is watching you. Under the all-seeing eye of Big Brother, Winston Smith spends his days in the Ministry of Truth, rewriting the past to serve a government that...

Look Back in Anger transformed the face of British theatre; legend has it that audiences gasped at the sight of an ironing board on a London stage. John Osborne's play...

Both a love song to Italy and a criticism of class and patriarchy in England at the time, this young adult illustrated edition is an exquisite, tumultuous romance. 'One doesn't...

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Gripping from the first page, this immense novel is an intoxicating and deeply satisfying read. Faber's most ambitious fictional creation yet, it is sure to affirm his position as one...

Big Brother is watching you. Under the all-seeing eye of Big Brother, Winston Smith spends his days in the Ministry of Truth, rewriting the past to serve a government that...

Author: Milan Kundera Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 48 A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen...

Author: Sally Rooney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 48 'My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly...

Author: Anna Burns Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of...

From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass...

Two murders. One will. A family full of secrets. Detective Caius Beauchamp is dispatched to a double murder in a South London townhouse. It looks like a simple botched burglary,...

With a new introduction by Gilbert Adair Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean...

'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' - The Times 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' - Hilary Mantel 'Claire Keegan...

A dysfunctional family reunites for the Christmas holiday from hell in this rediscovered festive classic with fangs for fans of Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor and Stella Gibbons.'Literary comfort and joy....

A stunning new edition of Claire Keegan's multi-award-winning, bestselling novel Small Things Like These. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY A SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER ONE...