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Series: Graphic Guides Gender: A Graphic Guide Paperback Meg-John Barker 9781785784521 $31.50 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 07, 2019

'An outstanding work' - CN Lester, author of Trans Like MeJoin the creators of Queer: A Graphic History ('Could totally change the way you think about sex and gender' VICE) on an illustrated journey of gender exploration. Is masculinity 'toxic'? Why are public toilets such a political issue? How has feminism changed the available gender roles - and for whom? Why might we all benefit from challenging binary thinking about sex/gender?In this unique illustrated guide, Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele travel through our shifting understandings of ... + Read More
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Series: Graphic Guides Capitalism: A Graphic Guide Paperback Dan Cryan 9781785785146 $31.50 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 10, 2019

Capitalism shapes every aspect of our world, beyond just our economic structures; it moulds our values and influences the way we write laws, wage wars and even conduct personal relationships. From its beginnings to the present day, Capitalism: A Graphic Guide tells the story of capitalism's remarkable and often ruthless rise, evolving through strife and struggle as much as innovation and enterprise. This non-fiction graphic novel explores the key developments that have shaped our modern world, from early banking to the Opium Wars, financial cra... + Read More
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Series: Fucking Good Manners Hardcover Simon Griffin 9781785785511 $24.95 HUMOR Nov 07, 2019

This is not a book about how to be posh. We have some slightly bigger issues to deal with these days.We've all got a million things to do and are constantly connected to millions of other people all doing a million other things, so the faster we get things done the better, right? Wrong. Among all the busyness and confusion it seems we've forgotten a few of the basics in life, like the ability to treat one another with respect, dignity and some fucking good manners.Enter Simon Griffin, author of Fucking Apostrophes.From the entry-level stuff lik... + Read More
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Series: 101 Tiny Changes 101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your World Hardcover Ailbhe Malone 9781785785726 $22.50 SELF-HELP Oct 03, 2019

101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your World is a book of uplifting tips on how to look after yourself and your world, from your personal relationships, to your working space and relationships, to society and the environment at large. In the hustle and bustle of daily life, it can be all too easy to lose sight of what really matters to us, and to take others and our world for granted. Focusing on tiny changes, Ailbhe Malone encourages us to take it step by step - with ideas to nurture our friendships, reduce plastic waste and make ethical choices, a... + Read More
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Series: Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future Hardcover Iwan Rhys Morus 9781785785467 $29.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 04, 2019

'[This] crisply succinct, beautifully synthesized study brings to life Tesla, his achievements and failures...and the hopeful thrum of an era before world wars.' - NatureNikola Tesla is one of the most enigmatic, curious and controversial figures in the history of science. An electrical pioneer as influential in his own way as Thomas Edison, he embodied the aspirations and paradoxes of an age of innovation that seemed to have the future firmly in its grasp. In an era that saw the spread of power networks and wireless telegraphy, the discovery o... + Read More
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Series: Hot Science Artificial Intelligence Modern Magic or Dangerous Future? Paperback Yorick Wilks 9781785785160 $20.50 COMPUTERS Sep 08, 2020

Artificial intelligence has long been a mainstay of science fiction and increasingly it feels as if AI is entering our everyday lives, with technology like Apple's Siri now prominent, and self-driving cars almost upon us.But what do we actually mean when we talk about 'AI'? Are the sentient machines of 2001 or The Matrix a real possibility or will real-world artificial intelligence look and feel very different? What has it done for us so far? And what technologies could it yield in the future?AI expert Yorick Wilks takes a journey through the h... + Read More
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Series: Hot Science Dark Matter and Dark Energy The Hidden 95% of the Universe Paperback Brian Clegg 9781785785504 $22.50 SCIENCE Aug 08, 2019

'Clear and compact ... It's hard to fault as a brief, easily digestible introduction to some of the biggest questions in the Universe' Giles Sparrow, BBC Four's The Sky at Night, Best astronomy and space books of 2019: 5/5All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5 per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has ever faced.Since the 1970s, astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them to account for the way they spin around: they should fly... + Read More
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Series: Conundrum Crack the Ultimate Cipher Challenge Paperback Brian Clegg 9781785784101 $20.50 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Jun 06, 2019

/* Font Definitions */@font-face {font-family:"MS ??"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}@font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:1; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;}@font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-f... + Read More
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Series: The Six Secrets of Intelligence What your education failed to teach you Paperback Craig Adams 9781785784828 $33.95 PHILOSOPHY Dec 10, 2019

'You may even find that you have the last word in arguments at home and in school, thanks to this introduction to logic and reasoning.' TESSome people have something to say in any conversation and can spot the hidden angles of completely unrelated problems; but how do they do it? So many books, apps, courses, and schools compete for our attention that the problem isn't a lack of opportunity to sharpen our minds, it's having to choose between so many options. And yet, more than two thousand years ago, the greatest thinker of Ancient Greece, Aris... + Read More
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Series: Astroquizzical A Beginner's Journey Through the Cosmos Paperback Jillian Scudder 9781785784125 $22.50 SCIENCE Jun 06, 2019

In this enthralling cosmic journey through space and time, astrophysicist Jillian Scudder locates our home planet within its own 'family tree'. Our parent the Earth and its sibling planets in our solar system formed within the same gas cloud. Without our grandparent the Sun, we would not exist, and the Sun in turn relies on the Milky Way as its home. The Milky Way rests in a larger web of galaxies that traces its origins right back to tiny fluctuations in the very early universe.Following these cosmic connections, we discover the many ties that... + Read More
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Series: Hello, Shadowlands Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia Paperback Patrick Winn 9781785784798 $22.50 TRAVEL Jan 03, 2019

'Reads like a thriller you can't put down' - Megha Rajagopalan, China Bureau Chief, Buzzfeed News'ensures you'll never think about Southeast Asia in the same way ever again.' - Geographical MagazineEssential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across a region in flux- a $100 billion trade that deals in narcotics, animals and people -and the staggering human toll that is being steadily ignored by the West. From Myanmar's anarchic hills to the swamplands of Vietna... + Read More
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Series: Quantum Economics The New Science of Money Paperback David Orrell 9781785785085 $24.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jun 06, 2019

A decade after the financial crisis, there is a growing consensus that economics has failed and needs to go back to the drawing board. David Orrell argues that it has been trying to solve the wrong problem all along.Economics sees itself as the science of scarcity. Instead, it should be the science of money (which plays a surprisingly small role in mainstream theory). And money is a substance that turns out to have a quantum nature of its own.Just as physicists learn about matter by studying the exchange of particles at the subatomic level, so ... + Read More
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Series: Saving Mona Lisa The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures from the Nazis Paperback Gerri Chanel 9781785785498 $24.95 ART Aug 08, 2019

In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley as part of the biggest museum evacuation in history. As the Germans neared Paris in 1940, the French raced to move the masterpieces still further south, then again and again during the war, crisscrossing the southwest of France. Throughout the German occupation, the museum staff fought to keep the priceless treasures out of the hands of Hitler and his henchmen, often risking their lives ... + Read More
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Series: 100 Years of Leeds United 1919-2019 Hardcover Daniel Chapman 9781785784309 $45.50 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 18, 2019

Published to coincide with the club's centenary celebrations, 100 Years of Leeds United tells the story of a one-club city and its tumultuous relationship with its football team. Since its foundation in 1919, Leeds United Football Club has seen more ups and downs than most, rising to global fame through an inimitable and uncompromising style in the 70s, clinching the last Division One title of the pre-Sky Sports era in 1992, before becoming the epitome of financial mismanagement at the start of the 21st century. Despite this demise, Unite... + Read More
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Series: Infused Adventures in Tea Main Hardcover Henrietta Lovell 9780571324392 $44.95 TRAVEL Jun 06, 2019

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR* Winner of Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards, Drink Book Award 2020 *Henrietta Lovell is best known as 'The Rare Tea Lady'. She is on a mission to revolutionise the way we drink tea by replacing industrially produced teabags with the highest quality tea leaves. Her quest has seen her travel to the Shire Highlands of Malawi, across the foothills of the Himalayas, and to hidden gardens in the Wuyi-Shan to source the world's most extraordinary teas. Infused invites us to discover these remarkable places, intro... + Read More
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Series: Faber Social The Three Dimensions of Freedom Main Paperback Billy Bragg 9780571353217 $15.95 RELIGION May 02, 2019

At a time when opinion trumps facts and truth is treated as nothing more than another perspective, free speech has become a battleground. While authoritarians and algorithms threaten democracy, we argue over who has the right to speak.To protect ourselves from encroaching tyranny, we must look beyond this one-dimensional notion of what it means to be free and, by reconnecting liberty to equality and accountability, restore the individual agency engendered by the three dimensions of freedom.
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Series: Faber Social The Wichita Lineman Searching in the Sun for the World's Greatest Unfinished Song Main Hardcover Dylan Jones 9780571353408 $23.95 MUSIC Aug 01, 2019

'It's just another song to me. I've written 1,000 of them and it's really just another one.' Jimmy Webb 'When I heard it I cried. It made me cry because I was homesick. It's just a masterfully written song.' Glen CampbellThe sound of 'Wichita Lineman' was the sound of ecstatic solitude, but then its hero was the quintessential loner. What a great metaphor he was: a man who needed a woman more than he actually wanted her. Written in 1968 by Jimmy Webb, 'Wichita Lineman' is the first philosophical country song: a heartbreaking torch ballad still ... + Read More
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Series: Trolls Main Paperback Stefan Spjut 9780571341054 $33.95 FICTION Aug 01, 2019

'Never mind Scandi crime fiction, the time has come for Scandi horror.' Metro *****What if...?A large wolf escapes its captors.A cult leader breaks out of psychiatric care.A disillusioned woman is forced to end her self imposed exile.Stefan Spjut's latest novel explores the ancient notion that our forests may be inhabited by beings we do not understand, creatures neither animal nor human, living in the shadows . . .Thriller, horror fiction, suspense, Trolls is set ten years on from hit novel Stallo, as Susso Myrén's world once again starts to s... + Read More
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Series: Shell Life on the Seashore Main Paperback Philip Street 9780571354450 $25.50 CRAFTS & HOBBIES Aug 01, 2019

'Armed with this intrepid survey, we can see a brave new world down there on the beach ... Exquisite revelation, of the most wonderful, watery kind.' - Philip HoareFor many, the highlights of seaside holidays are rockpooling and gathering the glorious array of shells left strewn on the beach after the receding tide. Attracted by the infinite variety of shapes and colours, visitors can never resist making a souvenir collection of their own - but little do they suspect the fascinating lives of the animals who once occupied them. What if each shel... + Read More
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Series: Quite Interesting 2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks Main Hardcover John Lloyd 9780571348961 $23.95 REFERENCE Jun 23, 2019

QI is the smartest comedy show on British television. Here creator John Lloyd and QI elves James Harkin and Anne Miller bring together 2,024 brain-tickling brand new facts to stop you in your tracks... Humans glow in the dark. The Pope drives a blue Ford Focus. One of the moons of Uranus is called Margaret. Scottish football referees are sponsored by Specsavers. Dogs visiting US National Parks can be certified as Bark Rangers. The world’s smallest computer is smaller than a grain of sand. Candyfloss was invented by a dentist. Nobody knows who n... + Read More
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Series: Ayoade On Top Hardcover Richard Ayoade 9780571339136 $25.50 PERFORMING ARTS Nov 08, 2019

At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the Topstarring Gwyneth Paltrow.InAyoade on Top, Richard Ayoade, perhaps one of the most "insubstantial" people of our age, takes us on a journey from Peckham to Paris by way of Nevada and other places we don’t care about. It’s a journey deep within, in a way that’s respectful and non-invasive; a journey for which we will all pay a heavy price, even if you’ve waited for the smaller paperback edition. Ayoade argues for the canonization of this bruta... + Read More
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Series: Fried & Justified Hits, Myths, Break-Ups and Breakdowns in the Record Business 1978-98 Main Paperback Mick Houghton 9780571336821 $33.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 04, 2019

A Book of the Year, UncutWe arrived in a fleet of white stretch limos at a clearing in a wood near Woking. Here the K Foundation was exhibiting a million pounds in cash, while Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty circled the perimeter in two orange Saracen armoured vehicles, blasting out Abba's 'Money Money Money' . . . The list of bands and artists Mick Houghton worked with in an illustrious career in the music business reads like a Who's Who of some of the greatest, most influential and downright dysfunctional cult groups of the post-punk era and ... + Read More
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Series: The Lark Ascending The Music of the British Landscape Main Hardcover Mr Richard King 9780571338795 $33.95 NATURE May 02, 2019

A Book of the Year, ROUGH TRADEA Book of the Year, MOJO 'A valuably original book.' Observer'This is a book to set you thinking and maybe don the headphones and the Gore-Tex, and stride out, modish and unashamed.' Stuart Maconie, Mail on Sunday'Exceptional.' Irish Times'A peerless cultural history' - Ian Thomson, Evening StandardThe Lark Ascending is a lyrical exploration of how Britain's history and identity has been shaped by the mysterious relationship between its people, its music and the landscape. Taking Ralph Vaughan Williams's most cele... + Read More
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Series: The Crooked Scythe An Anthology of Oral History Main Paperback George Ewart Evans 9780571340804 $23.95 HISTORY Aug 02, 2018

George Ewart Evans, who wrote the classic Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay, was one of the pioneers of oral history. This anthology is drawn from his writings about the memories of men and women of a past era - farm labourers, shepherds, horsemen, blacksmiths, wheelwrights, sailors, fisherman, miners, maltsters, domestic servants and many others. The anthology is edited and includes drawings by David Gentleman.'A pleasure to look at and a delight to read . . . A treasury of country folklore in words and pictures, and a monument to a great and ... + Read More
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Series: Faber Stories The Inner Room Faber Stories Main Paperback Robert Aickman 9780571351770 $10.50 FICTION Jan 03, 2019

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. In perhaps the most magnificent of what he called his 'strange stories', Robert Aickman blurs the lines between memory, premonition and the hallucinated life.Lene, a woman now recovering from the losses of the Second World War, recalls a gothic dolls' house of her childhood and the way in which its uncanny inhabitants entered her dreams. Most chillingly, the geometries of the house didn't add up; there had to... + Read More
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Series: My Hair Hardcover Hannah Lee 9780571346868 $28.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 0 - 5 Sep 27, 2019

Join one little girl's search for the BEST party hair - as demonstrated by her family and friends.Will it be dreads or a twist out? Braids or a high-top fade? Joyous and vibrant, this captures perfectly the excitement of getting ready for a celebration, as well as showcasing a dazzling array of intricate hairstyles.This is a glorious debut from an exciting new partnership who both emerged from the FAB Prize for undiscovered BAME writers and illustrators.
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Series: Four Seasons of Walter de la Mare The Ride-by-Nights Main Paperback Walter de la Mare 9780571307197 $15.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 0 - 5 Sep 03, 2015

Up on their brooms the Witches stream, Crooked and black in the crescent's gleam It's Halloween and a family is preparing to go trick-or-treating. Little do they know that up above them a coven of witches flies unseen through the starry sky... Carolina's stunning illustrations beautifully illuminate Walter de la Mare's thrilling, magical poem, published as a picture book for the first time.
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Series: Old Possum Picture Books Macavity Mini Collection Hardcover T. S. Eliot 9780571347872 $38.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 0 - 5 Dec 20, 2020

Perfect for fans of CATS, this is all the favorite poems collected in an adorable mini collection! Macavity' (the mystery cat!) is one of the best-loved poems from T. S. Eliot'sOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats - the inspiration forCats: The Musical - beloved by generations of children and their parents. This miniature collection will include:MacavitySkimbleshanksMr MistofoleesJellicle CatsCat MorganMungojerrie and Rumpleteezer
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Series: Faber Poetry The Forward Book of Poetry 2020 Main Paperback Various Poets 9780571353880 $23.95 POETRY Sep 05, 2019

'These annual anthologies of the poems in the running for the Forward Prizes remain the best way of encountering the richness that new poetry has to offer.' Daily TelegraphThe Forward Book of Poetry 2020 brings together a selection of the best poetry published in the British Isles over the last year, including the winners of the 2019 Forward Prizes - and a foreword by jury chair Shahidha Bari. She and her fellow judges - Jamie Andrews of the British Library, plus poets Tara Bergin, Andrew McMillan and Carol Rumens - read a year's worth of new c... + Read More
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Series: Defending the Rock Gibraltar and the Second World War Main Paperback Nicholas Rankin 9780571307722 $23.95 HISTORY Apr 04, 2019

Two months before he shot himself, Adolf Hitler saw where it had all gone wrong. By failing to seize Gibraltar in the summer of 1940, he had lost the war. The Rock of Gibraltar, a pillar of British seapower since 1704, looked formidable but was extraordinarily vulnerable. Menaced on all sides by Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Vichy France and Francoist Spain, Gibraltar also had to let thousands of foreigners across its frontier to work every day. Among them came spies and saboteurs, eager to blow up the Rock's twenty five miles of secret tunnels.... + Read More
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Series: Football Leaks Uncovering the Dirty Deals Behind the Beautiful Game Main Paperback Rafael Buschmann 9781783351411 $20.50 SPORTS & RECREATION Aug 01, 2019

'Probably the biggest story in football of the last decade ... Reads like a Cold War thriller.' - Best Football Books of 2019, FourFourTwo ***One anonymous football fan.18.6 million confidential documents. The explosive story of the shady underworld of modern football.In 2016, a whistle-blower known only as 'John' began leaking a treasure trove of top-secret files, revealing the clandestine dealings of clubs, players and agents at the highest levels of international football.From the eye-popping details of player transfers, to loopholes and opa... + Read More
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Series: Faber Social All Gates Open The Story of Can Main Paperback Rob Young 9780571311521 $33.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 01, 2019

'A real treat for Can fans.' SpectatorAll Gates Open is the definitive story of the most influential and revered avant-garde band of the late twentieth century: Can. In part one, Rob Young gives us the full biography- an in-depth and exhilarating history of the band.In part two, Irmin Schmidt presents an oral history of Can, drawing on extensive interviews with many musicians who cite the band as an influence, including Bobby Gillespie and Mark E. Smith.An essential book for Can fans, All Gates Open is illustrated throughout with previously uns... + Read More
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Series: Mrs Moreau's Warbler How Birds Got Their Names Main Paperback Stephen Moss 9781783350919 $25.50 NATURE Apr 04, 2019

Swallow and starling, puffin and peregrine, blue tit and blackcap. We use these names so often that few of us ever pause to wonder about their origins. What do they mean? Where did they come from? And who created them?The words we use to name birds are some of the most lyrical and evocative in the English language. They also tell incredible stories: of epic expeditions, fierce battles between rival ornithologists, momentous historical events and touching romantic gestures.Through fascinating encounters with birds, and the rich cast of character... + Read More
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Series: The Restless Kings Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown Main Paperback Nick Barratt 9780571329113 $23.95 ART Jun 06, 2019

Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Prize 2019'A vivid and humane study of the Plantagenets' diabolical and devious first family - a real joy to read.' Dan Jones, author of The PlantagenetsIn The Restless Kings Nick Barratt presents the tumultuous struggle for supremacy between the first Plantagenet king, Henry II, and his four sons. This conflict tore apart the most powerful family in Western Europe and shaped the future of both Britain and France, with a significance which still resonates today. Exploring the personalities and crises facing th... + Read More
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Series: Faber Drama Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 6 Time of My Life; Neighbourhood Watch; Arrivals and Departures; Hero's Welcome; A Brief History of Women Main Paperback Alan Ayckbourn 9780571348282 $42.95 DRAMA Sep 06, 2018

With an Introduction by the author.'The prolific master of suburban mayhem has still got his mojo.' Evening StandardTime of My Life'One of Mr. Ayckbourn's most virtuosic experiments in postmodern narrative.' Wall Street JournalNeighbourhood Watch'Ayckbourn's tartly topical, pitch-black comedy, a startling evocation of the panic induced by nightmarish notions of "broken Britain"... An arresting, nastily comic cautionary tale.' The TimesArrivals and Departures'Ayckbourn's genius lies in his ability to write what you might call 'sad comedies,' upr... + Read More
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Series: Faber Drama Julie After Strindberg Main Paperback Polly Stenham 9780571349593 $25.50 PERFORMING ARTS Jun 21, 2018

Wild and newly single, Julie throws a late night party. In the kitchen, Jean and Kristina clean up as the celebration heaves above them. Crossing the threshold, Julie initiates a power game with Jean. It descends into a savage fight for survival.Polly Stenham reimagines August Strindberg's Miss Julie in contemporary London.Julie premiered at the National Theatre, London, in May 2018.
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Series: Pocket Playhouse Thirty-six short entertainments Main Hardcover Michael Frayn 9780571333158 $29.50 HUMOR Sep 07, 2017

Pocket Playhouse is Michael Frayn's latest imaginative offering that brings the stage to the page. In thirty-six comic sketches, he provides a tour de force of theatrical imagination and satire. Each sketch reveals the author's infectious delight in writing between the lines of theatre, fiction and comedy.Charmingly packaged and published with flair, Pocket Playhouse is the perfect gift for all theatre and comedy writers.
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Series: Faber Drama The Height of the Storm Main Paperback Christopher Hampton 9780571350582 $26.95 DRAMA Sep 06, 2018

André and Madeleine have been in love for over fifty years. This weekend, as their daughters visit, something feels unusual. A bunch of flowers arrive, but who sent them? A woman from the past turns up, but who is she? And why does André feel like he isn't there at all?Christopher Hampton's translation of Florian Zeller's The Height of the Storm was first performed at Richmond Theatre, London, and opened in the West End at Wyndham's Theatre in October 2018.
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Series: Faber Drama The Hogarth Plays The Art of Success & The Taste of the Town Main Paperback Nick Dear 9780571350162 $29.50 DRAMA Sep 20, 2018

The Hogarth Plays catch one of England's most celebrated artists at two crucial points in his career: once at the beginning, and once at the end.In The Art of Success the events of ten tumultuous years are compressed into a single night, as newlywed William Hogarth makes his way through eighteenth-century London's high society and its debauched underworld. The play was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 1986.A world premiere, The Taste of the Town begins in Chiswick some thirty years lat... + Read More
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Series: Faber Drama The Moderate Soprano Main Paperback David Hare 9780571348343 $26.95 DRAMA Apr 05, 2018

I want to give my country a model of perfection. My country needs cheering up. I'm the man to do it.A man of great passions, John Christie wooed his opera singer wife with a determination befitting a man who won the Military Cross at the Battle of Loos. Now, in 1934, this Etonian science teacher's admiration for the works of Wagner has led him to embark on the construction of an opera house on his Sussex estate. Then, by chance, he hears word of a group of refugees from Nazi Germany who may perhaps deliver his vision of the sublime - assuming t... + Read More
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Series: Faber Drama The Village Main Paperback April de Angelis 9780571351473 $26.95 DRAMA Sep 20, 2018

Village life for Jyoti is simple: the people work hard, sing and live off the earth. She would rather devour a delicious meal than think about a suitable partner. But when the Inspector and his men arrive in town, things begin to sour. The Inspector's reign of terror sees him commit unspeakable acts against the village with young Jyoti in his sights, pushing everyone to breaking point.De Vega's Fuenteovejuna is transported to contemporary India and set against a backdrop of political unrest in this adaptation by April De Angelis.The Village pre... + Read More
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Series: Faber Drama The Woods Main Paperback Robert Alan Evans 9780571351312 $26.95 DRAMA Sep 06, 2018

Why you always got to dig things up?A cabin deep in the woods.A lost boy buried in the snow.A lone woman.And her wolf.You think you could keep him?You know where that ends up.Don't you.You no good with kids.The Woods by Robert Alan Evans premiered at Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2018.
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Series: Faber Drama Touching the Void Main Paperback David Greig 9780571352241 $26.95 DRAMA Sep 06, 2018

In 1928 a journalist asked George Mallory why he wanted to climb Everest. Mallory said, 'Because it's there.'Joe Simpson's memoir Touching the Void, international bestseller and BAFTA-winning film, charts his struggle for survival on the perilous Siula Grande mountain in the Peruvian Andes aged twenty-five.Adapted for the stage by David Greig, Joe's story explodes into a bold theatrical fantasia. We discover the counter-cultural world of Alpine climbing and the sensual joy of the mountains; we bear witness to the appalling moment when Joe's cli... + Read More
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Series: Faber Poetry Ariel Main Hardcover Sylvia Plath 9780571351169 $24.95 POETRY Sep 05, 2019

The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . the book is a major literary event.' A. Alvarez in the Observe... + Read More
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Series: Born Yesterday The News as a Novel Main Paperback Gordon Burn 9780571353637 $22.50 FICTION Oct 03, 2019

Born Yesterday does what the media do every day: blurring the boundaries between what is real and what has been invented. In 2007, Gordon Burn took the extraordinary news headlines from that year, and wove the strands together into an essential story for our time. The characters of these long-running reality soaps - the McCanns, Blair, Brown, Kate Middleton - are presented here in three dimensions, their stories told through revealing glimpses and startling insights. With a new introduction by Gordon Burn's editor, Lee Brackstone.
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Series: Faber Poetry This Rare Spirit A Life of Charlotte Mew Main Hardcover Julia Copus 9780571313532 $56.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 22, 2021

The first comprehensive biography of this undervalued writer, who was considered 'far and away the best living woman poet' in her day.Andrew Motion's Spectator Book of the Year.'One of the many achievements of This Rare Spirit is its rejection of that tired view of the poet as mouse that barely roared in favour of a true sense of a spikily modern woman, bound by various obligations but resilient, headstrong, and poetically inventive . . . Copus's diligent, scholarly, sensitive work should help Mew's pipe play on for years to come.' Declan Ryan,... + Read More
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Series: Faber Poetry Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 1 Main Hardcover T. S. Eliot 9780571295487 $67.50 LITERARY CRITICISM Oct 24, 2023

The definitive edition of the prose T. S. Eliot brought to publication.
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Series: Faber Stories Dante and the Lobster Faber Stories Main Paperback Samuel Beckett 9780571351800 $10.50 FICTION Jan 03, 2019

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. 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 Beckett's first book, More Pricks Than Kicks. Published in 1934, its style was recognisably indebted to that of his mentor, James Joyce, and crammed with linguistic texture and allusion that Beckett later shed. The book baffled many critics and sold so few copies tha... + Read More
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Series: Goalless Draws Illuminating the Genius of Modern Football Main Paperback David Squires 9781783351626 $29.50 HUMOR Nov 01, 2018

'Genius ... Squires' creativity shines through in this collection - there's simply no one better at what he does.' - Best Football Books of 2019, FourFourTwo***Half-and-half scarves? VARs? England winning penalty shoot-outs?Modern football can be baffling. But if you're contemplating throwing it all in for the simpler pleasures of quantum mechanics, don't despair just yet: help is at hand.In Goalless Draws, David Squires unpicks the modern game with an unmissable selection of his Guardian football cartoons from 2014 to the 2018 World Cup. From ... + Read More
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Series: Happy Like Murderers Main Paperback Gordon Burn 9780571353651 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 03, 2019

In this controversial and seminal work of reportage, Gordon Burn reveals the strange inner dynamic of Fred and Rosemary West's relationship. Based on meticulous research, this dark history is told in a powerful, compelling narrative. With a new introduction by Benjamin Myers.
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Series: Faber Poetry High Windows Main Hardcover Philip Larkin 9780571352319 $23.95 POETRY Sep 05, 2019

Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best-known pieces ('The Old Fools', 'This Be the Verse', 'The Explosion', and the title poem) show the preoccupation with death and transience that is so typical of the poet.This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.
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Series: Mr Lear A Life of Art and Nonsense Main Paperback Jenny Uglow 9780571269556 $29.50 ARCHITECTURE Sep 06, 2018

A Daily Telegraph, Times, Evening Standard, TLS and Spectator Book of the Year.Winner of the Hawthornden Prize.Edward Lear is well-loved for his 'nonsenses', from joyous limericks to great love songs, and for his wonderful natural history paintings, landscapes and travel writing. But although Lear belongs to the age of Darwin and Dickens, his genius for the absurd and his dazzling word-play make him a very modern spirit. He was also a man of great simplicity and charm - children loved him - yet his humour masked epilepsy, depression and lonelin... + Read More
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Series: Faber Stories Mrs Fox Faber Stories Main Paperback Sarah Hall 9780571351961 $10.50 FICTION Mar 07, 2019

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Walking ahead of him on the heath, his wife turns to look at him over her shoulder, 'Topaz eyes glinting. Scorched face. Vixen.'In language harvested from nature, Sarah Hall tells a story of metamorphosis, of wildness and fecundity, and of a man reaching for reason, who cannot let go of the creature he loves.Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compe... + Read More
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Series: Napoleon Volume 2 The Spirit of the Age Main Paperback Michael Broers 9780571301546 $33.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 03, 2019

'Masterly.' Daily Mail 'Stunning.' History Today'Magnificent.' Literary ReviewNapoleon's life reached its most extraordinary stage between 1805 and 1810. At war with Britain, Russia, and Austria, he unleashed his magnificent Grande Armée. The first resounding victory at Austerlitz was followed by a whirlwind of campaigns, and by 1810 he had divorced Josephine in order to marry the daughter of the Austrian Emperor. The Spirit of the Age illustrates in vivid detail the five years in which Napoleon appeared to be invincible.
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Series: Platform Seven Export Paperback Louise Doughty 9780571321957 $28.95 FICTION Aug 22, 2019

'Louise Doughty leads her unnerved readers into dark territory.' Hilary MantelThe new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Louise DoughtyPlatform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November morning is confident he's alone. As he sits on the metal bench at the far end of the platform it is clear his choice is strategic - he's as far away from the night staff as he can get.What the man doesn't realise is that he has company. Lisa Evans knows what he has decided. She ... + Read More
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Series: Faber Poetry Selected Poems Main Paperback Christopher Reid 9780571273287 $28.95 POETRY Nov 07, 2019

Christopher Reid won the Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award for his first collection, Arcadia, and has since then adopted a variety of guises: as 'Martian' poet, as Katerina Brac - the fictional Eastern European poet of whose work his collection of the same name purports to be translations - and as Alfred Stoker, the 100-year-old visionary. Included here as well are poems from Reid's powerful and moving elegiac volume, A Scattering, which was named Costa Book of the Year in 2009. This is an essential introduction to the work of a ri... + Read More
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Series: Faber Poetry Selected Poetry and Prose Main Paperback Charlotte Mew 9780571316182 $33.95 POETRY Sep 05, 2019

The British poet Charlotte Mew - whose 150th anniversary falls in 2019 - was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers. She has since been neglected, but her star is beginning to rise again. This Selected Poetry and Prose is edited by Faber poet Julia Copus, who recently unveiled a blue plaque on Mew's childhood house in Doughty Street and is writing her biography. Mew was a curious mix of New Woman and stalwart Victorian. Her poems speak to us strongly today, in these strangely mixed times of exposure and seclusion: they r... + Read More
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Series: Faber Poetry Serious Concerns Main Hardcover Wendy Cope 9780571352333 $23.95 POETRY Sep 05, 2019

Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as 'Bloody Men', 'Men and Their Boring Arguments', 'Two Cures for Love', 'Kindness to Animals' and 'Tumps' (Typically Useless Male Poets).This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.
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Series: Faber Stories The Forester's Daughter Faber Stories Main Paperback Claire Keegan 9780571351855 $10.50 FICTION Mar 07, 2019

*From the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These*Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. 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 will break her daughter's heart, she's sure of it.Claire Keegan's mesmeric story takes us into the heart of the Wicklow countryside, and of the farming family of Victor Deegan, with his 'three teenagers, the milki... + Read More