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Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written...

About the Author Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber & Faber an...

'The Calder valley, west of Halifax, was the last ditch of Elmet, the last British Celtic kingdom to fall to the Angles. For centuries it was consi...

About the Author Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber & Faber an...

'In a series of chapters built round poems by a number of writers including himself...Ted Hughes explores, colorfully and intensively, themes such ...

Ffangs lives with the other vampires on Vampire Island, but he is different from the rest - he can't stand the sight of blood! When he arrives in L...

An adaptation by the Poet Laureate of Racine's play of the same name. Phedre burns with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. His father, Theseus, i...

At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a pro...

Erica Wagner provides a comprehensive guide to the poems that must constitute one of the most extraordinary and powerful volumes published in the l...

This is Hughes's version of Alcestis - the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die...

Could there be a more pleasant way to spend a warm afternoon than lazing under a tree reading poetry inspired by these shade-giving wonders of the ...

The Puffin Book of Stories for Five-year-olds edited by Wendy Cooling brings together stories perfectly suited for every five-year-old. A brimming...

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

About the Author Sylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University ...

Review Owen Sheers' evocative one-hander paints a fascinating picture of Keith Douglas and places his breathtaking poetry centre-stage ― Guardian ...

Amazon Review Sylvia Plath churned out her final poems at the remarkable rate of two or three a day, masterworks Robert Lowell describes as writte...

Why is it easy to hate and difficult to love? When societies fracture into warring tribes, we demonise those who oppose us. We tear down our statue...

Product Description 'This book should be required reading for anyone thinking of having a baby, or even anyone who knows someone who is thinking ...

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...

This is a book about silences. And land. Renowned anthropologist and film-maker Hugh Brody weaves a dazzling tapestry of personal memory and dista...

Review There is formal ingenuity even in the most apparently straightforward of pieces here, and part of the pleasure comes from the interaction o...

Amazon Review Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted y...

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...