Literatura obcojęzyczna Faber & Faber

This is the first novel by the author of "Immortality", which won "The Independent" Award for Foreign Fiction in 1991. Milan Kundera is...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. At least Mrs Bennet...

}Jokes, Gummo{ and }Julien Donkey-Boy{. B/w illus. Paperback original.

England in den Dreißigerjahren. Christopher Banks ist ein erfolgreicher Detektiv, doch es gibt einen Fall, den er noch nicht lösen konnte,...

Her story was this: she had been an orphan, her mother probably a whore. Brought up aby nuns, she had lost her faith, found another, fought...

Peter Swanson returns with 2015's most compulsive thriller.

The Palm-Wine Drinkard is the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man and his search for his dead wine tapster. As he travels through...

30 Jahre Brooklyn, von den 70ern bis heute, umfasst diese epische Geschichte der Freundschaft von Dylan und Mingus, ihren Familien und der...

When Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects...

Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people...

It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making...

"The Museum of Innocence" - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families,...

Jarvis Cocker is widely regarded as one of the most original and memorable lyricists and performers of the last three decades. Here, for...

The trilogy commenced with "Batman Begins", which traced the origins of how Bruce Wayne took on the role of the masked crusader to fight...

Agbabi, Armitage, Burnside, Duffy, Dunmore, Fanthorpe, Heaney, Motion, Nagra, O'Brien and more Poems of the Decade brings together more...

Examines the importance of the renaissance of British theatre in the nineties.

The long-awaited memoir aby 'the most prolific and popular of all contemporary composers' (New York Times). Rapturous in its ability to...

Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. The Human Freakshow, is a victim of Tourette's syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every...

Including a personal appreciation, fuelled żeby five decades of journeying, the author presents a magisterial portrait of the continent.

Features dreamy teenager Karim, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer....

'With its searing observations, devastating exploration of the state of "not being", wicked humour and astonishing immersion into the mind...

Dustwalk is Amani's home. The desert sand is in her bones. But she wants to escape. More than a want. A need. Then a foreigner with no name...

The second installment of this highly-acclaimed trilogy, "Traitor To The Throne" throws the irrepressible Amani into a world of espionage,...

The second collection of short stories from the critically acclaimed Irish author, following the success of }Antarctica{. In these tales,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE MONTHLRB BOOK OF THE WEEKCAUGHT aby THE RIVER BOOK OF THE MONTHRoss Raymond...

"Habibi", based on a Middle Eastern fable, tells the story of Dodola, who escapes being sold into slavery and rescues an abandoned baby...

'When indefatigable obsession looms large as it does in Thomas Bernhard (and his revered precursor Kafka) the result for the reader is a...

A Strangeness In My Mind is a novel Orhan Pamuk has worked on for six years. It is the story of boza seller Mevlut, the woman to whom he...

On 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's African Empire....

'A landmark in twenty-first-century English literature.' - Andrew Anthony, Observer 'Kudos is one of the most astoundingly original and...

One night in 1974, Philippe Petit secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. At daybreak,...

Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015 Sunday Times Top Choice Summer Read Elf and Yoli are two...

The evening is fine. In the sky a few early stars are shining of their own accord. She watches the dog licking the bowl clean. This dog...

Detailed narrative combines with a deep historical understanding to create a lively and accessible account of the war. 38 b/w maps.

William Mann looks beyond the legend to consider separately the life and the persona of Katharine Hepburn, from her movies, her loves, her...

The clarity of Colm Toibin's prose is blended with the emotional truth of Anne Enright in this stand-out new novel of belonging and loss

Edna O'Brien's first novel The Country Girls and its sequels The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss changed the temperature of...

This revised third volume of Harold Pinter's work includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man's Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches...

"A great psychological thriller...I couldn't put it down". (Daisy Goodwin). It is a New York Times bestseller. Grace Sachs, a happily married...

So this is permanence, edited by Jon Savage with a foreword żeby Deborah Curtis, presents the intensely personal writings of one of the...

After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?In...

This volume contains Harold Pinter's first six plays, including The Birthday Party. The Birthday Party Stanley Webber is visited in his...

The biggest problem for outsiders in the world of economics is that most of the time, we don't know what the hell the insiders are talking...

A new macabre and haunting comedy from the writer of In Bruges and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

A story of shanty-town life in Trinidad. Calvary Hill is the home of Aldrick Prospect, who lives for the carnival and his once-a-year chance...

*WINNER OF THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2020* 'One of the best debut novels I have ever read. Shockingly good... A classic.' Max Porter...

Paperback edition of the intriguing political thriller from the author of the bestselling }My Name Is Red{. Set amongst the international...

* A TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR *'Quietly frightening.' Guardian'Essential reading.' Irish Times'Consistently chilling.' Herald'Shocking...

As their friendship quickens, these two eccentric men discover in each other an antidote to their feelings of despair on the unexpected...

Part of the Faber poetry repackaging programme.

How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist$179 She stumbled backwards, her eyes wide, as the figure started...

Features the plays >The CaretakerNight SchoolThe DwarfsThe Collection< and >The Lover

When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that...

Subtitled, }The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811{. Reissue of this only work of true crime from the novelist P.D. James, now with a new jacket...

New edited by J.C.C. Mays.

This is a brilliant history of the rise to dominance of the West, exploring the links between cultural values and military success. Instead...

First UK publication of Forsman's mind-blowing follow up to The End of the F***ing WorldNew and expanded edition'Scary, disturbing and expertly...

The dreadful strangers moved in on a wild and windy Thursday.'Fudgenuts,' cursed Picklewitch, adjusting her cracked binoculars to get a...

This new selection of William Wordsworth's poetry is part of a series of collections from six great nature poets.

In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric.

Contains the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath's life. In this book, readers will...

Meet Horace Hopper, a twenty-one-year-old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, who works for Mr Reece and his wife, the nearest thing he's had...

What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but still feel completely empty? What do you do when it...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020'Magnificent' Guardian'A Masterpiece' New York Times

Reissue.

WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZE Cyprus, 1953. As the island fights for independence from British colonial rule, ancient conflicts...

'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.'In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 'Magnificent' Guardian; 'A Masterpiece' New York Times

Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She is attractive. She drives a red Corvette. Her husband, Ford, is...

Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing...

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

Shaken żeby the outcome of her last big case, PI Roxane Weary is keeping a low profile. Certain - and scared - that things aren't so straightforward,...

In her blistering and beautifully written UK debut, Steph Cha has crafted an urgent, timely and unforgettable novel about the intertwined...

Ellis is a charming, knowledgeable, and witty guide to everything you didn't know you wanted to know about pebbles.He ruminates on what...

****A Sunday Times bestseller******A Times Book of the Year 2017***WITH A FOREWORD aby ALAN BENNETT'A lovely, thoughtful little book about...

Money, freedom, adoring fans: professional musicians seem to have it all. But beneath the surface lies a frightening truth: for years the...

"Molloy" is Samuel Beckett's best-known novel, and his first published work to be written in French, ushering in a period of concentrated...

1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous...

The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written...

A groundbreaking look at why most commercial and public policy ventures will not succeed. From the author of }Butterfly Economics{.

An exquisite winter tale of courage - and its cost, set in Catholic Ireland.

Why we have boobs and how they have become so fetishised. How the kidnap of a 13-year old-chimney sweep's daughter created our present age...

The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married...

Johann Joachim Quantz's "On Playing the Flute" has long been recognized as one of the primary sources of information about eighteenth-century...

Peter Carey's astonishing novel is a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced...

A novel, with a Cuban setting, that is both a damning portrayal of vice and poverty in the third world, and a compellingly grotesque exploration...

Selected and arranged by the author, and with a new introduction aby novelist David Mitchell, How To Be Invisible presents the lyrics of...

Presents the poems in their original contexts; and where alternate readings were suggested. It includes a brief explanation of poet's selection...

Our Lady of the Flowers, often considered Genet's masterpiece, was written in the cell of a French prison where he was being held for theft....

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

A powerful story of passion and friendship, the nature of love and the taboos surrounding it. "N.P." is the last collection of stories żeby...

There are two currents of history in the author's poem, the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian...

An eager young westerner spends a year working in Japan for the mighty Yumimoto Corporation. Disturbing and cutting critique of Japanese...

'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Footballers with Their Shirts Off when she...

'On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. Took her away from you some people might say. Didn't...

An account of the 1972 Munich Olympics, when 11 Israeli athletes were killed żeby Palestinian terrorists - or inept German snipers. This...

A #1 New York Times Bestseller. Do what you can to get your hands on this new collection from bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting...

"If you're ready to graduate from the boy-meets-girl league of screenwriting, meet John Truby... [his lessons inspire] epiphanies that make...

Repacked version of his first book, timed to coincide with the paperback publication of }The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao{.

This edition of Ariel by Sylvia Plath, introduced by Frieda Hughes, is a Faber Modern Classics edition of the volume upon which rests Plath's...

They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died. One afternoon, a mother opens her front door to find the length of her son's body...

Ariel is the volume upon which rests Sylvia Plath's reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century.now...

In 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre. 'Look Back in Anger presents post-war youth as it really...

This revised third volume of Harold Pinter's work includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man's Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches...

"Empires of the Sea" shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 it is a breathtaking...

An account of a young English undergraduate from the provinces, this portrait of Oxford during the war is now regarded aby many critics...

Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late 20th century. "The Alexandria Quartet" is unquestionably...

An essay written like a novel, in which the famous cast of characters; Stravinsky, Kafka, Hemingway and Rabelais, meet and cross paths through...

'To Richter (no first name necessary), warm greetings to the best pianist in the Soviet Union - indeed in the whole world.' Prokofiev Throughout...

The perfect gift for all those big and little kids in your life who ask 'why...$1'. With an introduction from Zoe Ball.

The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's best-loved Booker Prize-winning novel. Issued into the launch list of Faber Modern Classics,...

In the early fifteenth century, France had gone from being the strongest and most populous nation state of medieval Europe to suffering...

'After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?'...

This is a vivid record, in words, illustrations and working diagrams, of a section of women's clothing design from 1600 to 1930. The author...

The inhabitants of a Greek village, ruled by the Turks, plan to enact the life of Christ in a mystery play but are overwhelmed by their...

First published in 1965. SEE NEW COVER EDITION (with Bertrams ISBN 0202007758).

Funny and philosophical play about two men who quarrel and a third who tries to calm them. Translated żeby Christopher Hampton. The play...

Describes every practical knot, what it looks like, where it comes from, and how to tie it. The book includes 4,000 knots, with all the...

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What's grown-ups going to think? Going off-hunting pigs-letting fires out-and now! A plane...

In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the fourteenth century...