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The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (Faber Editions) William Saroyan. £9.99 £8.99. The definitive biography of MF DOOM, charting the reclusive and revered hip-hop artist’s life, career, and eventual immortality. Packed with behind-the-scenes…. The Chronicles of DOOM: Unravelling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast.
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Royal Literary Fund. A British charity that has been supporting authors since 1790, among them James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas and Edith Nesbit. The Royal Literary Fund provides grants and pensions to writers in financial difficulty: novelists, poets, playwrights, screenwriters and translators. www.rlf.org.uk.
What to Read This Autumn, 2024 | Journal | Faber
Goodlord by Ella Frears (Rough Trade). If reading a long, deranged email to a landlord doesn’t sound like your idea of a good time then you’re missing out on one of the most brilliant novels of the year. A brutally hilarious riot of a book that takes in the housing crisis, concepts of home, art, work and so much more.
Faber Poetry Diary 2025 | Various Poets | Books & Shop | Faber
Faber Members get 10% off their first order. Faber Poetry Diary 2025. Various Poets. A handsome A5 hardback diary printed in colour throughout with a ribbon bookmark and an elastic closure. A week to a view diary containing a new selection every year of more than forty poems along with illustrations from the Faber Archive. 417 in stock. Quantity:
The Story Behind the Publication of Lord of the Flies - Faber
Thursday 6 June 1974. Twenty years after writing Lord Of The Flies, I now see that Ralph who weeps for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, was weeping for an age that is passing. Seen from the other side, the heart of man is not dark, but flamelit and terrible. Perhaps then Jack and his hunters had the heart of the matter after ...
T. S. Eliot: Collected Poems 1909-1962 | Faber Poetry
Ted Hughes. Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962 includes his verse from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943), and includes such literary landmarks as The Waste Land and Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.
Non-fiction | Biography, History, Politics, Pop and More | Faber
The most comprehensive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odessey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange. Kubrick: An Odyssey. Nathan Abrams. £20.00. A unique, life-affirming memoir about the author’s friendship with two men living in Regent’s Park. Under the Hornbeams: A true story of life in the open.
She’s Always Hungry (Indie & Website Exclusive) - Faber and Faber
Visceral, speculative body horror from the author of BOY PARTS and PENANCE – the first collection from a major voice in British fiction. A teenager longs for perfect skin. A scientist tends to fragile alien flora. A young man takes the night into his own hands.
Bringing Great Writing Back into Print | Books & Shop - Faber
The Faber Finds series brought great writing back into print. It was founded in 2008, and the list includes hundreds of books by writers including such names as H. G. Wells, A. J. P. Taylor, John Betjeman, Angus Wilson, Brian Aldiss, Nina Bawden and A. L. Barker.