The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in…

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\nShe spends her days tending plants, slogging through high school and imagining what life could be if she had been born to…

The epic imaginative enterprise [is] as formidable a feat as the year-long odyssey it charts.' Sunday Times'Golding writes…

Winner of the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969. It is 1956 and Townrow is in Port Said - of these two facts he's reasonably…

DIRECTING, DIALOGUE AND ACTINGFrom Richard Williams' The Animator's Survival Kit comes key chapters in mini form. The…

This gorgeously illustrated collection of poems illuminates and reimagines the ingenious, fragile dwellings of the living…

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Shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award 2018Five runaways ride the bus from Bayelsa to a better life in a megacity. They are…

The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. But it has to be…

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\n\'Counterintuitive, funny and provocative . Along the way, he reveals the deep-lying and often controversial roots of…

\nThe rise and fall and triumphant rise from the ashes of Lenny Henry during the 80s and 90s.\n…

To accompany Eliot's poems, Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the creative…

\nJones combines her personal experience as a mixed-race woman who cares about racism with her professional expertise as a…

\nThe Ballets Russes not only left a matchless artistic legacy - they changed style and glamour, they changed taste, and…

But Rafi's own shady past threatens to haunt him. London Kills Me (1991)A weekend in the lives of homeless Clint and his pal…

\nWhat is he, twelve? Why doesn\'t he want to be friends with you no more?1923. As shots ring out from the warring mainland,…

the theatre lends itself particularly well to the ritualistic aspects of the story - chanting, dancing, marching, forming a…

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. Since the publication of his poems in 1918 he…

The roars of the hungry Minotaur came nearer and nearer - his feet could be heard thundering along the echoing floor of the…

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.…

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Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. Tender, witty,…

One of a series concerning the major plays of leading 20th-century playwrights. This guide introduces, explores and analyzes…

Gerald Durrell, director and owner of Jersey Zoo, was internationally famous for his amusing books about collecting wild…

\nMeet John Cromer - \'one of the most original comic creations in recent fiction\' (Guardian) - and discover one of the…

\nSamuel Beckett directed Krapp\'s Last Tape on four separate occasions: this volume offers a facsimile of his 1969…

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- What were you in life?- In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital…

When eighteen-year-old Michael visits the Hanbury\'s remote family home he is captivated by their bohemian lifestyle. The…

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Egypt, 2011: this is a revolution. On the streets of Cairo, a violent uprising is transforming the course of history. The…

\nSupper for one? Whether you\'re a career girl, eccentric bedsitter or wild bachelor, this witty gem is the essential guide…

Award-winning author Lorrie Moore has been writing criticism for over thirty years - and her forensically intelligent, witty…

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The prizewinning debut from Britain's most exciting contemporary novelist. In a remote dale in a northern English county, a…

Eva Tyne, an Irish violinist living and working in New York, collapses after her solo debut and is rushed to hospital. Still…

On the morning of the 13th November 1952, the body of 19-year-old Patricia Curran was carried into the surgery belonging to…

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A young lawyer's involvement in her first case leads her through a criminal justice system - police, courts and prisons -…

In celebration of our 90th birthday, five beautiful hardback editions of some of Ted Hughes's most popular nature poems - to…

A poetic sequence that take as its \'subject\' the urge to memorialize the scenes of fatal car accidents.…

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Headlong begins when Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has…

First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the…

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'A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam.' - Ali SmithThe hugely anticipated new novel from the beloved author,…

\nYou\'d be surprised how a simple thing like locking up your husband in the same room as you, makes you aware of something.…

This is the last of three volumes of collected shorter prose to be published in the Faber edition of the works of Samuel…

\nThough never elected to office, he manipulated those who were through a mix of guile, charm and intimidation. Motivated at…

Alfred PrufrockPortrait of a LadyPreludesRhapsody on a Windy NightMorning at the WindowThe Boston Evening TranscriptAunt…

One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber\'s extensive list of…

The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel; With a holy trinity of his own making…

One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber's extensive list of…

It won Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture of 1977.…

Some poems will be more of a challenge than others, but all will be treasured once they have become part of the memory bank.…

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Gordy LaSure's alwaystalking about films and how they'd be a shit ton better if only people would pull their asses out of…