The Hours is David Hare's screen adaptation of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In extraordinary and…

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Penned with a dexterous wit and a steady nerve, The Noise of a Fly is a mesmeric imagining of our later years by one of this…

One of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to…

A prince with a black eye.Fleeing a world he has rejected, Robin finds solace in his music and the sanctuary of his remote…

Attempts on her Life 17 scenarios for the theatre by Martin Crimp Attempts to describe her? Attempts on her Life 17…

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what do you think he does?- He destroys her.A story about how we make stories, a story about unrequited love, The Seagull is…

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\nTea\'s cold, lunch is late and the great Professor has turned out to be a fraud - for Uncle Vanya, life has gone wonky,…

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Whether you are a professional actor looking for fresh audition pieces, an amateur in search of competition-worthy…

In a series of chapters built round poems by a number of writers including himself . He makes the whole venture seem…

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\n1962: A public school on the South Downs. John Blakemore is a solitary boy who finds it impossible either to understand or…

Finished just two months before the author's murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco's supporters, The House of…

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In this exuberant anthology, Wendy Cope attempts to prove that misery does not have all the best lines. Here is a collection…

Bryony Lavery's Frozen was winner of the TMA Best New Play award and the Eileen Anderson Central Television Award for Best…

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

Above all don\'t use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science. Hilary, a young psychology…

I'm an award-winning business woman. Beneath the surface, though, the cracks are starting to show. Linda by Penelope Skinner…

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Produkt Box of Delights - Torday, Piers zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele FABER & FABER.…

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In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the…

'One of the most famous of modern art documents - a poetic primer, prepared by the artist for his Bauhaus pupils, which has…

When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear - all have…

The Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, director and teacher has written a blunt, unsparingly honest guide to acting. He…

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While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt…

Winner of the Best Picture at the 1998 European Film Awards and the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. 'A…

A long-haired woman moves into the priest's house and sets fire to his furniture. And in the title story, a priest waits on…

\nPresents a bittersweet comic diary of the years in which a lethally dotty and very smelly old bat parked her unroadworthy…

A Scattering is a book of lamentation and remembrance, its subject being Christopher Reid's wife, the actress Lucinda Gane,…

Robert leaves Ibsen's A Doll's House outraged by its attack on the sanctity of marriage; What she chooses to do next will…

Explains the persistence of certain principles and aspirations throughout the history of art. This title provides a basis…

POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONFleche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a…

\nAnne loved the time in her life when she prepared breakfast each morning for her two young children. Years later, spending…

\'Poignant, thought-provoking and very funny\' JOANNA CANNON\'Darkly comic and deeply felt\' GRACE FLAHIVEFull of wit, heart…

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"Woods etc." is Alice Oswald's third collection of poems, and follows the success of her widely acclaimed river-poem "Dart",…

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Hannah Sullivan's debut collection is a revelation - three long poems of fresh ambition, intensity and substance. In Three…

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Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication…

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Sassoon was one of the first poets to define a generation, and this collection, ordered chronologically, is re-published for…

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Whether playing to ten thousand fans in Ibiza's superclubs or in a local pub function room, this DJ's experiences are a…

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Best known as a fine composer, the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was also a religious leader and…

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Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1985, these poems were written after the death of Douglas Dunn's first wife in…

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Published in 1957, Hawk in the Rain was Ted Hughes's first collection of poems. When Robin Skelton wrote, 'All looking for…

Anna and Ariel, they make the world. The fashionistas, the art scene, the elite party circuit. And there's a price to pay. A…

\nA work that reminds us of the singular and glorious power of poetry in our complex world. Silver is a collection that…

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BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. It is a compelling invitation…

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Ths volume contains all of Beckett's less-than-full-length works (or 'Dramaticules') for the stage, radio and television.…

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A selection of poems of Samuel Beckett, from "Whoroscope" (1930) to 'What is the Word' (1988).…

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These poems report on worlds both robust and delicate, from boisterous pub-bluff to the oxygen bubble of an exquisite…

Described by The Times as 'the national children's dramatist', David Wood has been writing, adapting, directing and acting…

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Presented as a collection of found papers, appendices and notes, The Big Music tells the story of John Sutherland of 'The…