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The Brave Courtier
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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...
Four Films: presented by Richard Ayoade
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...
On the Calculation of Volume I: Shortlisted for the International
'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...
Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story
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 ....
Hangman
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Author: Paul GeddesBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber, 1977Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsUnknown
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
*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...
Sailing To An Island
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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...
Faber Book of Letters
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....
Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-97 ('Oral history at its revelatory best' DAVID KYNASTON)
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...
Listen: On Music, Sound and Us
'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...
Unfinished Business
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...
Richard Scarry's I Am a Bunny
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...
Another Time
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...
Literary Lifelines: The Richard Aldington-Lawrence Durrell Correspondence
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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...
The Faber Book Of Comic Verse
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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,...
The Faber Book Of Anecdotes
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Author: Clifton Fadiman (ed.)Binding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1985Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book is a collection of anecdotes, offering a wide range of...
The Shutter of Snow (Faber Editions): 'Extraordinary.' Lucy Ellmann
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...
Listen: On Music, Sound and Us
'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...
Yeats: The Man And The Masks
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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...
The Great Gatsby: A stunning Faber Illustrated Classic
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...
Faber Book of Writers on Writers
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....
Speaking for England
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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. A description of our secondhand...
A River in Egypt: Faber Stories
In his masterful story 'A River in Egypt', David Means paints a portrait of a moment. Cavanaugh and his young son are suspended; trapped in what a nurse calls 'the...
The Faber Book of Science
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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:...
The Faber Guide to Victorian Churches
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...
Paradise: Faber Stories
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...
Faber Poetry Diary 2026
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...
Richard Scarry's Please and Thank You Book
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...
Mr Salary: Faber Stories
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...
Look Back in Anger: Faber Modern Classics
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...
Looking for Trouble: 'One of the truly great war correspondents: magnificent.' (Antony Beevor)
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...
Ariel: Faber Modern Classics
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...
Intruders: Faber Stories
Between his second and third tours of duty, a soldier returns home. To his former home, that is, using an old key while the new tenant is at work. Is...
Liberty Faber Poetry Diary 2026
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...
Dark Matter: The bestselling Richard & Judy book club pick
THE EXCITING 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE RICHARD AND JUDY BESTSELLER. NOW WITH AFTERWORD FROM SIMON PEGG. 'The novel virtually defines a new genre: literary creepy ' JEFFEREY DEAVER 'Paver...
Munich, 1938: Appeasement and World War II
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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...
The Faber Book of Fevers and Frets
The book titled The Faber Book of Fevers and Frets by the author D. J. Enright. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Souvenir
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...
Never Let Me Go
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...
The Faber Book Of English Verse
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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...
A Lonely Man
Author: Chris Power Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A taut, subtle, postmodern literary thriller.' - Sunday Times 'Gripping.' - Financial Times 'A delicate snare of a novel . Alluring...
The Faber Book of Drink, Drinkers and Drinking
Alcohol is mankind's favourite drug. Tipple, red-eye, poison, mother's ruin, mud in your eye, juice, sauce, a shot of the hard stuff and plonk - all of these terms are...