Faber Editions
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Faber Editions brings hidden gems from the Faber archive back into print.
On the blog, read the Faber Editions series editor Ella Griffiths on her rediscovery of Sven Holm’s Termush.
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'This breathtaking collection is a marvel ... One of my literary foremothers.' Tayari Jones'Astute, brilliantly observed, these timeless stories are remarkable. It's all the more poignant to know the writer died at such a heartbreakingly…
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An eccentric professor saves a London Zoo ape from a rocket experiment in this dazzling classic by a trailblazing animal rights activist, introduced by Sarah Hall.‘Pitch-perfect.’ Ali Smith‘So…
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Introduced by Hilton Als, in ‘one of the best novels about adolescence in American literature’ (New York Times) two siblings come of age in a mountainous wilderness …‘One of the strangest and angriest novels of the…
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Translated by Sylvia ClaytonIntroduced by Jeff VanderMeer – ‘a classic: stunning, dangerous, darkly beautiful’ – welcome to the post-apocalyptic White Lotus: a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this lost…
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Introduced by Claire-Louise Bennett, experience one new mother’s psychological journey in this lost 1930 foremother of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.‘Extraordinary. A fascinating and unexpected delight.’ Lucy…
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Those men who are history now; did they feel like this?…
Recommended by Gayle
‘The second of two novels written by Emeric Pressburger (of Britain's greatest ever film-making duo Powell and Pressburger), The Glass Pearls tells the story of Karl Braun, a Nazi war criminal hiding in plain sight among the German émigrés of grimy, down-at-heel 1960s London. A properly good thriller that keeps ramping up the tension until the very end.’
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The stunning only novel by the celebrated poet and first Black author to win a Pulitzer Prize, introduced by Margo Jefferson.…
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Introduced by Carmen Maria Machado, the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish Britain, THEY are coming closer…‘A creepily prescient tale … Insidiously horrifying!’ Margaret…
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The visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage ...…
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The amphibious cult classic: a magical tale of a suburban housewife's affair with a frogman ...…
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