Faber & Faber. The Untold Story, Paperback - Toby Faber

Reducere. Published to celebrate Faber's 90th anniversary, this is the story of one of the world's greatest publishing houses - a delight for all readers who...

DescriptionTo celebrate its 90th anniversary, here is the untold story behind one of one of the world's most iconic publishing houses.Faber and Fab...

Black Sun confronts the dark dreams and hidden powers of this world, and, through the poet's attentive watching and wondering, offers its readers a...

Paperback of the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home. This book contains significant unpublished work, including a poignant m...

From the moment their hugely influential 1978 debut landed, Van Halen set a high bar for the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, creating an entirely new styl...

Hitherto unpublished in the UK, this classic story of a little bull who doesn't like to fight has never been out of print in the US since it was fi...

In Mars By 1980, David Stubbs charts the evolution of electronic music from the earliest mechanical experiments in the late nineteenth century, thr...

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 charts, v...

Some of the most striking passages in The Story of My Heart are descriptions of the controlled chaos of London, which represented for Jefferies the...

From the moment their hugely influential 1978 debut landed, Van Halen set a high bar for the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, creating an entirely new styl...

It seemed the case of the notorious Yorkshire Ripper was finally closed when Peter Sutcliffe was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981. But in the...

From the moment their hugely influential 1978 debut landed, Van Halen set a high bar for the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, creating an entirely new styl...

Reducere. In the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptus-scented canyon deep in the Hollywood Hills of ...

Pearlie and Holland live quietly with their son in San Francisco, with a barkless dog in a vine-covered house. Apart from Holland's elderly aunts, ...

Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. August himself has just landed a prize government job, wh...

An anthology of worlds revealed by explorers through the ages.Publisher: Faber & FaberNumber of pages: 832Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 197 x 1...

This is a classic wartime tale of a (real!) cat who made his home at the Faber offices and decided he'd never leave. 'This time we need to get you ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE'No one writes stories the way Hall does and quite possibly no one ever will.

Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred- and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh, this novel once again displa...

`A nail-biting thriller that'll keep you up all night' Emily Koch'Quirky and Compelling' Val McDermid

Standing on a tube platform, a young office-worker sees a dreadful accident. On reflection she realises that what she has witnessed may well be som...

'Outstanding.' Guardian'Eleven perfect stories.' Irish Independent'Glorious.' The Times'My FAVE collection ever.' Pandora SykesIn eleven stories, I...

A pocket Guide looks at all Bach's music, sacred and secular, and explores why he speaks so profoundly to our age about both the spiritual and the ...

Joseph Haydn is one of the greatest and most innovative of all composers, yet in some ways he is still curiously misunderstood. With suggestions fo...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the national imagination.

Explains the persistence of certain principles and aspirations throughout the history of art. This title provides a basis for the appreciation of p...

For 6, 557 miles, from New York to Mississippi to Seattle, Chuck Klosterman decided to chase rock n roll and death across a continent.Publisher: Fa...

Twelve years ago, Amores Perros erupted in the cinemas across the world and announced the arrival of Mexican film-makers. The film-makers profiled ...

Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all. It is not. 'Dante and the Lobster' is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel ...

Sweet Dreams charts the rise of the New Romantics, a scene that grew out of the remnants of the post-punk period and developed alongside club cultu...

The definitive oral history of the New Romantics.Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): Dylan (Editor) JonesNumber of pages: 704Publication date: 2021D...

'I'm going to tell him to pick up his prayer mat and get out of my house.'When Parvez's son Ali starts clearing out his bedroom, Parvez assumes he'...

Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. Zorba has...

Starring the real Cat Morgan, who inspired T. Written by none other than Polly Faber, granddaughter of Geoffrey Faber - it is based on real life an...

James Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet praised for his own love poetry, gathers together the best lyric poems originating in the English language. ...

Miss Dior is a story of freedom and fascism, beauty and betrayal, roses and repression, and how the polished surface of fashion conceals hidden dep...

Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the t...

Marito is a young Peruvian who toils away at his local radio station, dreaming of becoming a writer, before his life is torn apart by two arrivals....

Now in paperback, this is a celebration of the poetry that has moulded our languages and shaped our islands through time as it gathers together fou...

Going to see a 'Shakespeare' and want a quick run-down on the plot before you start? Teaching the 'Henry's' and need a handy guide to all the histo...

it is only a matter of time before she snaps. Edna O'Brien crafts a quietly horrifying scene of eroticism and insecurity, and makes one woman's nea...