Faber and Faber
Men and Cartoons
65%
The author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn now beguiles his readers nine times…
Loving Sabotage
75%
So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amelie Nothomb's critically acclaimed novel about a…
The Character of Rain
66%
The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children are gods, each one an okosama, or 'Lord…
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
59%
Set in Peru during the 1950s, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is the story of an 18 year old…
Safe House
85%
When Rob Hale wakes up in hospital after a motorcycle crash he is told that Lena, the woman he…
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
65%
BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, READ BY HUGH DENNIS The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the…
1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off
95%
QI is the smartest comedy show on British television, but few people know that we're also a major…
The Bell Jar
77%
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid…
Flight Behaviour
78%
On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible…
Pierced
75%
A Convicted Killer: Despite always maintaining his innocence, Tori Pulli, once a powerful player on…
The Red Moth
88%
As Hitler's forces smash into Soviet territory, annihilating the Red Army divisions in its path, a…
Skios
98%
On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by…
This Is How You Lose Her
87%
Junot Diaz's new collection, This Is How You Lose Her, is a collection of linked narratives about…
The Luminaries
67%
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the…
May We be Forgiven
97%
Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a…
Because a Fire Was in My Head: 100 Poems
56%
A wonderful anthology of poems to set fire to the imagination. We only have to 'remember, remember…
Death in the Andes
56%
Set in an isolated, run down community in the Peruvian Andes, Vargas Llosa's riveting novel tells…
Gillespie and I
76%
As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out…
Sandstorm
67%
Sandstorm is the best kind of reportage: humane, historically-informed and full of details that…
My Name is Red
75%
In the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his…