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.
Recommended by Gayle
‘Another absolute banger in the excellent Faber Editions series of rediscoveries. Ex-Wife follows Patricia, a New Yorker who unexpectedly finds herself divorced at 24, as she works out how to live and who to be in her new role of ‘ex-wife’. It’s full of dead-pan humour, and so modern I refuse to believe it was first published in 1929. A Heartburn for the Jazz Age!’
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Join Dostoevsky on his tumultuous honeymoon in this hypnotic cult classic , introduced by Susan Sontag.'A wonderful work of art.' Jon McGregor'Extraordinary in its confidence and enchantment.' Chris Power'Addictive,…
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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?…
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‘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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