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'A triumph.' Deborah Levy, New Statesman'Tremendous.' Alwyn Turner, The Times'Revelatory.' Simon Schama, Financial Times'The…

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What did Haydn's wife use for curling-paper for her hair? What did Schubert do with his old spectacles case? Why was Dvorak…

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Nominated for seven Oscars and winner of the BAFTA award, this triplet of masterfully interwoven crime stories is witty,…

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

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'Brilliant.' The Times'One of Upson's most evocative novels.' GuardianSeptember 1939: The worries of war follow Josephine…

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\nI feel so fucking sillybut I thought they meant real peacefucking hell KateyI thought they meant that even my bodyit might…

Ryuosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers. He lived through Japan's turbulent Taisho period, including the…

• Rok vydání 2019

In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Perhaps most…

This volume contains a selection of early works by Harold Pinter. This edition also includes A Night Out, The Dwarfs and…

The inspiration for THE UNDOING -- a major new HBO TV series in 2020, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, from the…

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

Bringing together more than one hundred poems from the many thousands submitted to the Forward Prizes for Poetry in the…

Christopher Martin, the sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer, is stranded upon a rock in the middle of the Atlantic.…

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Drawing on extensive first-hand accounts, Crowley brings to life the exploits of an extraordinary band of conquerors - men…

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This play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdown of communication,…

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\nSimon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject. Blossomise celebrates the…

• Rok vydání 2018

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The most popular series of movies in the history of cinema, the Star Wars trilogy altered forever our notion of what the…

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

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

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\n\'The kind of character comedy.\' Good Housekeeping\'A lynchpin of British comedy.\' Alan MooreThe nation\'s favourite…

\nNot One of These People, a co-production between the Royal Court Theatre, Carte blanche, and the Carrefour international…