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Author: Richard FaberBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsRichard Faber's "The Brave Courtier" is a compelling work of historical biography that chronicles the life...

Richard Ayoade edits and introduces this defining work of the great midcentury visionary of stage and screen -- rediscovered and republished by Faber & Faber. This volume of Harauld Hughes's...

Author: H. H. ParsBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber & Faber, 1957Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerPictures in Peril is a first edition book published in 1957, featuring...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the windswept coastlines of Connacht to the ancient rhythms of the sea, Richard Murphy's Sailing to an...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE* A Book of the Year in the Times; Telegraph; Spectator; Financial Times; Observer; Waterstones and Daunt...

Another 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...

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 ....

Author: Paul GeddesBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber, 1977Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsUnknown

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew literary friendships of the twentieth century crackle with as much intellectual vitality as the one chronicled in Literary Lifelines, a remarkable...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of literary biography, Richard Ellmann's Yeats: The Man and the Masks...

Author: Mr Richard KingFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 445g, 544 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2023Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a...

A varied and comprehensive collection of letters written in the English language from 1578 to 1939. The engrossing anthology contains letters from Albert Einstein, Queen Elizabeth I, Hemingway, Freud, E.B....

A vivid eulogy for London of the late 1970s and early 80s - the last years prior to the rise of the digital city.An elliptical, wildly atmospheric remembrance of the...

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...

Classic Richard Scarry: Discover the seasons with Nicholas the bunny.I am a bunny. My name is Nicholas. I live in a hollow tree.In the spring, Nicholas picks flowers and chases...

'The wheat is beautiful, but human life is labour' Trekking across the English countryside, the nineteenth-century nature writer Richard Jefferies recorded his responses to everything from the texture of an...

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: Robert MelvilleBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber, 1956Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards in good condition with light bumping on corners. All...

'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Laughter has long been the secret weapon of English poetry,...

'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books...

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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...

A virtuoso performance of postmodern daring, Mr. Dalloway offers a rich augmentation of Virginia Woolf's classic novel. It is June 29, 1927Richard and Clarissa Dalloway's thirtieth anniversary and also a...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in Victorian Oxford commanded as much reverence...

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...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Professor John Carey Format:...

Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding condition: slightly shaky, no loose pages. Few figures in the world...

The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade...

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...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: wear and tear. Page Condition: Good. From the sweeping grandeur of medieval ballads to the sharp wit of the Augustans and the raw emotion of...

Classic Richard Scarry: find out who in Busytown has the best manners!Join Richard Scarry's beloved characters Huckle Cat, Lowly Worm and more on a very busy day in Busytown as...

John Updike considers it one of the less elevated impulses, Norman Mailer sees it as an inevitable conflict, Wallace Stevens saw it as one of the greatest aspects of literature....

'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...

UNFINISHED BUSINESS focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world must surely exist. Faced...

In this anthology, Tom Paulin aims to represent the extended family of vernacular poets and to show how Christina Rosetti, Hopkins, Whitman and other poets have drawn on the energies...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA towering achievement in twentieth-century critical thought, Herbert Read's Collected Essays in Literary Criticism assembles the most enduring and penetrating writings of one of Britain's foremost...

Author: Charles WilliamsBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber & Faber, London, 1948Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAn occultist invades Europe at the head of an African army. His goal--the conquest...

The book titled Richard Meinertzhagen: Soldier, Scientist and Spy by the author Mark Cocker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The great 19th century boom in church building, spurred by population growth and new religious movements, was already under way whan Victoria became queen in 1837, and it continued until...

Author: Richard Speer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 One of the twentieth century's leading Abstract Expressionists, Sam Francis (1923-94) was one of the few visual artists who traversed the...

Author: Samuel BeckettBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber & Faber, London , 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerHappy Days by Samuel Beckett is a seminal work of absurdist theater,...