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 sweat chamber', where the boy will be tested for cystic fibrosis. Cavanaugh has brought dis Zobraziť viac
This work is set in Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley - the wide-eyed Irish heroine of 'The Observations' - takes a job as a maid in a big house outside Edinburgh working for the beautiful Arabella. Zobraziť viac
Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec, leads her onto a path that is beset with suffering and betrayal... Zobraziť viac
Spring will marry you. A promise! Cuckoo brings the message: May. O new clothes! O get your house ready!Expectation keeps you starry. But at which church and on what day?In these poems Ted Hughes invites the reader to try and .... Zobraziť viac
Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November morning is confident he's alone. As he sits on the metal bench at the far end of the platform it is clear his choice is... Zobraziť viac
Lose yourself in this glorious memoir of the island jewel of Corfu by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu... Zobraziť viac
33 Revolutions Per Minute tracks the turbulent relationship between popular music and politics, through 33 pivotal songs that span seven decades and four continents, from Billie Holiday singing 'Strange Fruit' to Green Day raging against the Iraq war... Zobraziť viac
Hattie is living in Paris, city of romance, but has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Min, her sister back in Canada, is... Zobraziť viac
In New York City, Isabel Reed, one of the most respected and powerful literary agents in the city, frantically turns the pages of a manuscript into the early dawn hours. This manuscript - printed out, hand-delivered, totally anonymous -... Zobraziť viac
It came from the woods. Most strange things do.' Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow journeys into (and out of?) the eerie abyss. These chilling tales spring from the macabre imagination of acclaimed and award-winning comic creator ... Zobraziť viac
The gripping tale of the Greenpeace activists who endured a hundred days in a Murmansk isolation jail. There is a saying in Russian jails. Ne ver ne boysya ne prosi: don't trust, don't fear, don't beg... Zobraziť viac
Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late twentieth century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and brilliant evocation of wartime Alexandria... Zobraziť viac
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man ... Zobraziť viac
Widely praised on its first publication in 1987, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother... Zobraziť viac
Chosen as one of the 100 Most Important Comics of the Century, Faber is proud to publish the graphic novel City of Glass for the first time in the UK. As Art Spiegelman explains in his new... Zobraziť viac
On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous paths. Four Fergusons will go on to lead four parallel... Zobraziť viac
Faber & Faber: Hate skews reality even more than love. In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris,... Zobraziť viac
Imagine a place populated by criminals - people plucked from their lives, with their memories altered, who've been granted... Zobraziť viac
In this masterful novel by the acclaimed Indian writer Vivek Shanbhag, a close-knit family is delivered from... Zobraziť viac
Faber and Faber: The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one... Zobraziť viac
