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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 ....

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...

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...

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: 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...

'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: 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 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...

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: 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...

'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: 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: 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...

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: 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: 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...

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: 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...

'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: 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...

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...

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...

When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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: 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...

Reissued in Modern Classics in the run up to the 50th anniversary of its first publication The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, 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...

A woman on a plane listens to the stranger in the seat next to hers telling her the story of his life: his work, his marriage, and the harrowing night...

In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of...

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...

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...

Hannah Arendt's penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of the political landscape. On Revolution is her...

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...

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...

With his elegant prose, distinctive imagination, and deep empathy, the bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White once again dazzles us in three novellas. "The Courage Consort" tells...

The dramatic narrative account of the 1938 Munich appeasement conference, in which Britain agreed to Adolf Hitler's annexation of the Sudetenland in return for his promise never to go to...

Ralph Loman works in an unsatisfying job, for a free London newspaper, when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly crosses his path at a party....

Author: Brian Eno Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'One of the seminal books about music . . . an invaluable insight into the mind and working practices of one...