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'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 behind hi...

Review Excellent . This sharp, tense, clever novel, still readable and relevant all these years later, is a testament to changing social attitudes...

Here, now, listen, I'll tell you a tale ...Daffodils are in bloom as dawn breaks over the foothills of Ballycumber, ushering in hope for a new day ...

Review A master stoyteller ... In this deceptively sad novel, he simply uses a science-fiction framework to throw light on ordinary human life, th...

Review Obscure, indecent and brilliant. -- Virginia Woolf While Hope Mirrlees is remembered as a fine and remarkable novelist, it has been forgot...

Review This is a novel that lives firmly in the melancholia of the city's gentrification, hurtling readers through one woman's desperation to keep...

A delightful and comprehensive collection of the lighter side of W.H. Auden’s poetic genius. While W.H. Auden is widely regarded as one of the grea...

In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers has given voice to those...

Linda France's tenth collection is galvanising, comprising poems written from, and into, the fabric of the sixth mass extinction. Here, beginnings ...

Inspector Archie Penrose invites Josephine Tey down to his family home in Cornwall so she can recover from the traumatic events depicted in "An Exp...

This book consists of two long poems. "Lines of Desire" tells the story of an individual in crisis, under cruel pressure both from past and present...

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

A contemporary thriller with ancient roots, by the winner of the Most Promising New Playwright 2024 award (OffWestEnd). The bark creeps up my body...

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century af...

About the Author Hanif Kureishi was born and brought up in Kent. He read philosophy at King's College, London. In 1981 he won the George Devine Aw...

French billionaire Orgon, relocated to Los Angeles with his family, has fallen under the spell of Tartuffe, a radical American evangelist. So compr...

George was born into a world of village cricket matches and fox-hunting, but his failing income and the onset of war threatens his way of life. A t...

Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the ...

Review Hofmann's is one of the definitive bodies of work of the last half-century, as redolent of the mood, mores and matter of its time as any th...

As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot hi...

'A huge book, an immense book. Such adventure and variety, such industry, such subjugation of self.' Michael Hofmann, TLS Heaney not only translat...

Review Such a wonderful book. Utterly unique, exquisitely crafted and quietly powerful. I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary tr...

Review 'The songs are discussed in a series of insightful and gracefully written chapters, each drawing on a vast range of learning in cultural an...

Acclaimed historian Jenny Uglow brings us a fascinating and beautifully illustrated biography of Edward Lear, full of the colour of the age. Edwar...