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Review A richly detailed biography of the distinguished British publishing house. -- Kirkus A uniquely close-up view of 20th-century literary hist...

Toby Martinez de las Rivas is regarded as one of the most distinctive voices to have emerged in recent times; to some, a modern-day William Blake. ...

*Featured in The Times' 'Best Books of the Year So Far'* What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but stil...

Nominated for 8 Academy Awards� including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay She's everything. He's just Ken. The exclusive screenplay of th...

Review An incredible trip . . . both educative and gripping. -- Allan Jones ― Uncut A thoroughly enjoyable read and likely to remain the best-wri...

Edna O'Brien's classic, rocket of a novel, Night, is narrated by one of her most memorably, unhinged characters, Mary Hooligan. Lying on a four-pos...

"A vital link in the evolution of Beckett's early work." Originally intended as the "recessional" or final piece to Samuel Beckett's 1934 short sto...

When they called saying your body had been found, I had one immediate thought. I remember thinking that maybe now I'd be free. Sam hasn't spoken t...

Review 'Outstanding . . . Scott's tone is sometimes splendidly, defiantly drama-queenly . . . This is the most impressive debut since Andrew McMil...

T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic and publisher - was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtu...

Book Description The New Faber Book of Love Poems, edited by James Fenton, is a glorious collection of some of the most emotive and memorable lyri...

Should I run? This is the question Pauline Gibson is asking herself. She has spent her adult life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a campaign f...

At a time when opinion trumps facts and truth is treated as nothing more than another perspective, free speech has become a battleground. While aut...

About the Author Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His nine works of fiction have earne...

Review The answer lies in Breathnach's self-lacerating honesty and his skill in arranging fragments to create the momentum of a short story ... Ov...

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. Si...

A young video shop assistant exchanges the home comforts of one mother-figure for a fleeting encounter with another; a brother and sister find them...

Sam Riviere's debut, 81 Austerities, began as a blog responding to the spending cuts, and went on in publication to win the 2012 Forward Prize for ...

In his first book with Faber, Hernandez tells the untold stories of these American comics legends' youth, and portrays the reality of life in a lar...

'I cannot recommend it highly enough.' Caitlin Moran 'Brims with compassion and wit.' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'Absolutely blew me away.' Jo Brand ...