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'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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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...

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: 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...

'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...

At the heart of this panoramic, multidimensional narrative is the compelling struggle of a young woman to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. Faber leads us back...

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...

'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world . . .' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving...

'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world . . .' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving...

In the aftermath of the first war in Iraq, Theo Griepenkerl is visiting the looted museum of Mosul when a bomb explodes outside the building. As Theo seeks shelter, he...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRES FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A kaleidoscopic and linguistically daring work . . . Scintillating.' OCEAN VUONG 'A quirky and original debut that sizzles with scintillating...

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,...

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...

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...

You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda [. . .] You try it all, but...

Author: Rosamund Young Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'A lovely, thoughtful little book about the intelligence of cows.' - James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's Life Cows...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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 ....

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: 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...

This illustrated young adult edition of a bold novel is one of defiance and bravery. As beautifully crafted as it is heartwrenching, this love story transcends time and generations. People...

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...

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...

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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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew names in the history of Western civilization carry the weight of Michelangelo Buonarroti — sculptor, painter, architect, and poet — whose works stand...

'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: Michel Tournier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 An international bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt, The Erl-King is a magisterial tale of innocence, perversion and obsession. It...

n intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's...

Author: Andre Aciman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Set in Alexandria, this classic and much-loved memoir chronicles the exploits of Andre Aciman's colourful Sephardic Jewish family from...

Author: Alwyn Hamilton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 This phenomenal novel is the first in a trilogy packed with shooting contests, train robberies, festivals under the stars,...

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....

Author: David Peace (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'A powerful, stirring read.' - The Times 'Typically brilliant . I loved it.' - Adrian McKinty 'The most stone-cold crime...

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...

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...

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