Literatura obcojęzyczna Faber & Faber

This compelling story about two very different people is memorable for its compassionate precision and for the curious and unmistakable...

Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when...

As "The Dream of the Celt" opens, it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin...

A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. Żeby...

A dramatization, suitable for schools and amateur dramatic groups, of Golding's bestselling novel. The book contains notes and diagrams...

It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories, however, are dramatically if confusedly...

"The Philokalia" is a collection of texts on prayer and the spiritual life, written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries żeby spiritual...

First staged in the fifth century BC, Antigone stands as a timeless inquisition into human fallibility and our refusal to learn frrom the...

Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious...

When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of...

This collection contains stories about the sport of love - Don Juanism, ageing, male and female power and seductions undertaken for all...

Cold Hand in Mine was first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. The story 'Pages from a Young Girl's Journal' won the Aickman...

Reissue.

A retelling of Irish legends, including the three major pre-Christian sequences - the Mythological Cycle, the Ulster Cycle and the Finn...

This book is about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called "Anarchy in the UK" was issued in London, and this event launched...

Edward Mendelson has significantly expanded his authoritative, chronological ordered edition of Auden's "Selected Poems" (first published...

What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups...

A priceless examination of the filmmaker's craft, from the renowned director of "Sweet Smell of Success" After more than twenty years in...

A "Grief Observed" comprises the reflections of the great scholar and Christian on the death of his wife after only a few short years of...

**Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2021****Shortlisted for The Desmond Elliott Prize 2021****An Observer 10 Best Debut Novelists of...

Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a...

This is the complete collection of stories from one of the most original and powerful American writers of the twentieth-century. Including...

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

Described as an "outstanding contemporary narrative master", Llosa here weaves a tale of political allegory combined with elements of the...

The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up...

In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered...

Tonight nineteen-year-old William Lavery is dressed for success, his first black-tie do. It's the Midlands Chapter of the Institute of Embalmers...

Lord of the Flies. Educational Edition

Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. This new edition returns...

Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns...

Tie-in to the about-to-be released film starring Russel Crowe as the mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash. The film and book...

Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop superstardom. Here is their story,...

"A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By...

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Catherine and Heathcliff's, a foundling adopted aby...

2 classic Beckett plays, with new introductions and notes. Republished as part of the 80th Anniversary of Faber celebrations, and a project...

'Well, Sergeant, here we go then', I said. 'Getting our chance at last of a good old crack at the Boche, eh...?' Ex-infantryman and reconnaissance...

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...

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2003 WINNER OF THE 2003 WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL PRIZE Named as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQ...

From a pioneering psychiatrist comes a perspective-shattering work into the minds of violent criminals. Dr. Adshead reminds us that before...

In 1999, Nina Simone gave a rare performance. After the show, award-winning musician Warren Ellis crept onto the stage and took the gum...

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

'The Sun always has ways to reach us.' From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities,...

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...

"Lord of the Flies" is a novel that has captivated schoolchildren ever since it was first published in 1954. A teacher himself, Golding...

Taylor Greer droht ihre sechsjährige Adoptivtochter, das Indianermädchen Turtle, zu verlieren, seit eine ehrgeizige Stammesanwältin Turtle...

"Extraordinary...Film of the year". ("Sleazenation"). "Magnificently bizarre...Wonderful". ("Empire"). "Unlike anything you'll have seen...

From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently...

'It came from the woods. Most strange things do.' Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow journeys into (and out of?) the eerie abyss....

Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland,...

Reissue of this early novel in a new approved translation aby Aaron Asher.

Funny, irreverent and passionate, this opens the lid on two worlds - the glamorous and highly lucrative realm of the perfume makers, and...

Fourth volume of the translation of this religious text on the prayers and spiritual life of the Orthodox Christian tradition.

From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in...

Here are luminous sketches of characters she has met, of transgressive and often tragic women - prostitutes and mothers, spinsters and celebrities,...

How new is atheism? The author brings to life the origins of the secular values at the heart of the modern state, and reveals how atheism...

From the writer of one of the most memorable debuts of recent years, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, comes a novel about sexual passion....

For Violet, family is the most important thing in the whole galaxy. So when her father goes missing while on a hazardous job, she can't...

The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian...

The Times Biography of the YearWinner of the Hawthornden Prize 2019Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019Longlisted for the Cundhill...

Highly anticipated conclusion to the epic Rebel of the Sands trilogy - a genre-busting Wild West meets Arabian. In the final battle for...

"Sulphuric Acid" tells the story of a reality TV death camp, which has become the nation's obsession - an amoral spectacle played out through...

A fascinating and personal exploration of Japan's obsession with running by Adharanand Finn, award-winning author of Running with the Kenyans.

A piercing scream, shattering the evening calm, brings Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from his literary party to the nearby Steen...

Strangers are united żeby circumstance as they wait on the subway stairs for a summer storm to pass. Instantly recognizable, Adrian Tomine's...

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.

In seven independent, but closely related chapters, the author presents his personal conception of the European novel, which he describes...

'Irresistable.' Megan Abbott'A gory, gorgeous feast of a book.' Kiran Millwood Hargrave'This book is crazy. You have to read it.' Bon AppetitDorothy...

A powerful and provocative portrait of contemporary Nigeria from a celebrated young novelist.

The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel; With a holy trinity of his own making - homosexuality,...

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A magisterial work of gripping history, "City of Fortune "tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power...

In this book Richard Ayoade - actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist - reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in conversation...

20 years after the Trojan war, the Gods have decided it is time for Odysseus to return to Ithaca, before his wife Penelope is forced to...

Tim Burton is one of the great modern-day visionaries of cinema, a director who has fabricated his own deliciously nightmarish universe...

The French Dispatch brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional 20th-century...

Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were...

In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered...

"The Philokalia" is a collection of texts written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries aby spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian...

The human race faces extinction.Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel....

On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her...

Writing A Novel is not a set of rules and regulations. It is an atlas, a guide to finding your own way over the treacherous passes of your...

The snow is thick, the phone line is down, and no one is getting in or out of Warbeck Hall. With friends and family gathered round the fire,...

*WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2020*AS SEEN ON BBC'S BETWEEN THE COVERSONE OF STYLIST'S BEST NEW BOOKS FOR 2020'A beautiful book....

Blunt and unsparingly honest guide by the American playwright, subtitled }Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor{.

I choose to take back my life. My life. Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she's left her home and borne...

Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted aby Jean Anouilh to characterize the first...

The complete text of James Joyce's dream masterpiece, one of the great works of twentieth-century literature. This copyright edition incorporates...

Inspired by Alcoholics Anonymous' 12 Steps and 12 Traditions, Actors Anonymous is a dark, genre-bending work that mixes memoir and pure...

Bob Stanley's Yeah Yeah Yeah tells the chronological story of the modern pop era, from its beginnings in the fifties with the dawn of the...

Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious...

Jan Morris recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival...

Radclyffe Hall was the pen-name of Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall, the author of "The Well of Loneliness", which on its publication in 1928 became...

A reissue of the 1935 Selected Poems, which, with an Introduction żeby T. S. Eliot, brought Moore's work to the attention of a wider public....

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

Robert Aickman, the supreme master of the supernatural, brings together eight stories where strange things happen that the reader is unable...

A concubine is strangled in the Sultan's palace harem, and a young cadet is found butchered in the streets of Istanbul. Delving deep into...

Filled with the sights and sounds of a changing world and a remarkable life, this book offers a bronicle of Kim Gordon.

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...

As if organising stalls, as well as presiding over luncheon, the bishop and the tea tent, were not enough for Mrs Maxie on that mellow July...

In this sweeping debut, Asha Bromfield takes readers to the heart of Jamaica, and into the soul of a girl coming to terms with her family,...

All Gates Open presents the definitive story of arguably the most influential and revered avant-garde band of the late twentieth century:...

On a tiny lighthouse island far from the rest of the world, a hermit lives out his existence. Every week a supply boat leaves provisions,...

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYArlington Park is an ordinary English suburb. Over the course of a single day, the...

"The New York Trilogy" is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective...

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

Winner of the CWA Crime Awards Silver DaggerTwo men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, thier throats...

Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this volume is intended equally for those studying independently, with...

This volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. The text is preceded by an introduction...

In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old...

The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil...

In her first collection of new poetry since 2011's acclaimed Family Values, Wendy Cope celebrates 'the half-forgotten stories of our lives'...

Trade paperback. A fabulous and very funny new illustrated series, perfect for fans of "My Naughty Little Sister".

In the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best...

Composer, pianist, author, television teacher, Harvard lecturer, cultural icon, humanist and conductor without peer, Leonard Bernstein's...

Irresistible, sun-kissed follow up to the top ten bestseller Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author.

From award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery...

'I can't remember ever reading anything so moving. I've had to go back to bed! It's so BEAUTIFUL and convincing and so so sad, but worth...

A story that is told aby the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to...

A sensual meditation on the nature of love and addiction, this dazzling and incisive novel satirises postcolonial society and celebrates...

'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?'...