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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...

In the late eighties and early nineties, Moby, then an underground DJ and musician, was scraping out a living in New York City. In a scene popular ...

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

Andrew Motion's prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as 'an act of magical retrieval' (Daily Telegraph) and 'a hymn to fa...

"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...

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...

In The Dark Stuff Nick Kent profiles twenty-two of the most gifted and self-destructive talents in rock history. From Brian Wilson to Syd Barrett, ...

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 ...

It was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success, and its production history since it was first performed in 1960 has establish...

Well yes and no. It's sexy, but pedestrian. Hieronymus Bosch in Smethwick. Hetty and I found a little alcove with our Sauvignon. Four couples gath...

Review 'Roseanne McNulty is almost a century old and has been imprisoned in a mental institution in the west of Ireland for many decades. But with...

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...

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...

Alex Jennings is a boy with a problem. His mum's sent him away to boarding school because his father, the most famously failed explorer in the hist...

*INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* *AN OBSERVER DEBUT OF 2022* *AS FEATURED ON FRONT ROW* 'Incredibly moving. Exquisitely crafted." BONNIE GARMUS, ...

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...

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...