Wife Samuel Adamson (Author) Series:
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Main
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Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 112pp h200mm x w125mm x s8mm 125g ISBN13: 9780571354825 ISBN13: 978-0-571-35482-5 ISBN10: 0571354823 EAN: 9780571354825 x Description: - And your husband forgave you. But what did you do? Decided that forgiveness was offensive and walked out on your marriage. With nothing. Into nothing. - Into everything, I think. It's 1959. Robert leaves Ibsen's A Doll's House outraged by its attack on the sanctity of marriage; his wife Daisy dashes round to the stage door, in love with both Nora and the actress who plays her, thrilled by their promise of escape. Daisy is at the crossroads. Her moral compass tells her to go one way, society the other. What she chooses to do next will have consequences not just for her and Robert, but for four couples who come after them over ninety years. The truth is we have to give up parts of ourselves if we want to be with someone. And what if, before you know this, you run away from the wrong person? Samuel Adamson's Wife premiered at Kiln Theatre, London, in May 2019. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places William Atkins (Author) Series:
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Faber & Faber
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Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s29mm 398g ISBN13: 9780571319749 ISBN13: 978-0-571-31974-9 ISBN10: 0571319742 EAN: 9780571319749 x Description: WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL WRITING AWARD 2019 One third of the earth's land surface is desert, much of it desolate and inhospitable. What is it about this harsh environment that has captivated humankind throughout history? Travelling to five continents over three years, William Atkins discovers a realm that is as much internal as physical. From the contested borderlands of the USA to Australia's nuclear test zones, via Nevada's riotous Burning Man festival and the ancient monasteries of Egypt, he illuminates the people, history, nature and symbolism of these remarkable but often volatile places. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fast 800 Recipe Book: Low-carb, Mediterranean style recipes for intermittent fasting and long-term health Dr Clare Bailey (Author) Justine Pattison (Author) Dr Michael Mosley (Foreword by) Series:
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Short Books Ltd
Publisher:
Short Books Ltd
Pub Date:
13 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h246mm x w189mm ISBN13: 9781780724133 ISBN13: 978-1-78072-413-3 ISBN10: 1780724136 EAN: 9781780724133 x Description: Following Dr Michael Mosley's No.1 bestselling Fast 800, this fabulous companion cookbook offers a collection of delicious, nutritious recipes to help you incorporate the new 800-calorie programme into your daily life.
Dr Clare Bailey, GP, and acclaimed food writer Justine Pattison have created meals which are tasty and easy to make, from breakfasts and brunches, soups and shakes to more substantial suppers and even occasional indulgent treats. All the recipes are based on the low-carb Mediterranean style of eating now proven to revolutionise your health.
Whether you are embarking on an intensive weight-loss programme to prevent or reverse Type 2 diabetes, or simply want to bring down your blood pressure and cholesterol and improve your mood and general health, The Fast 800 Recipe Book will inspire you to change the way you eat for ever. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown Nick Barratt (Author) Series:
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Faber & Faber
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Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 280g ISBN13: 9780571329113 ISBN13: 978-0-571-32911-3 ISBN10: 057132911X EAN: 9780571329113 x Description: 'A vivid and humane study of the Plantagenets' diabolical and devious first family - a real joy to read.' Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets In 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 this extraordinary family, The Restless Kings brings to life some of the most remarkable, complex, flawed and brilliant monarchs ever to have sat on the English throne, and will challenge everything you thought you knew about the medieval world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In Paris With You Clementine Beauvais (Author) Series:
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Main
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Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 279g ISBN13: 9780571339723 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33972-3 ISBN10: 0571339727 EAN: 9780571339723 x Description: Because their story didn't end at the right time, in the right place, because they let their feelings go to waste, it was written, I think, that Eugene and Tatiana would find each other ten years later, one morning in winter, under terra firma on the Meteor, Line 14 (magenta) of the Paris metro. Eugene and Tatiana could have fallen in love. If things had gone differently. If they had tried to really know each other. If it had just been them, and not the others. But that was years ago and time has found them far apart, leading separate lives. Until they meet once more in Paris. What really happened back then? And now? Could they ever be together after everything? Powerful, intelligent, and set in a Parisian's-eye view of Paris, a story about the love that got away. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Conundrum: Crack the Ultimate Cipher Challenge Brian Clegg (Author) Series:
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Icon Books Ltd
Publisher:
Icon Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm B-Format ISBN13: 9781785784101 ISBN13: 978-1-78578-410-1 ISBN10: 1785784102 EAN: 9781785784101 x Description: The ultimate trial of knowledge and cunning, Conundrum features 200 cryptic puzzles and ciphers. The solutions link throughout the book - so you need to solve them all to get to the final round.
With a focus on ciphers and codebreaking, Conundrum contains twenty sections, each built around a specific subject from music to literature, physics to politics. To take on Conundrum you need good general knowledge and the ability to think laterally. But if you need help, there are plenty of hints to point you in the right direction.
Whether you attempt to crack it alone or work in a team, Conundrum will challenge you to the extreme.
Can you take on Conundrum and win? There's only one way to find out... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Way to the Sea: The Forgotten Histories of the Thames Estuary Caroline Crampton (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 336pp h216mm x w135mm x s20mm 419g ISBN13: 9781783784134 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-413-4 ISBN10: 178378413X EAN: 9781783784134 x Description: Caroline Crampton was born on the Thames Estuary to parents who had sailed there from South Africa in the early 1980s. Having grown up with seafaring legs and a desire to explore, Caroline is both a knowledgeable guide to the most hidden-away parts of this overlooked and unfashionable part of the country, and a persuasive advocate for its significance, both historically and culturally.
As one of the key entrances and exits to England, the estuary has been pivotal to London's economic fortunes and in defining its place in the world. It has also been the entry point for immigrants for generations, yet it has an ambivalent relationship with newcomers, and UKIP's popularity in the area is on the rise. As Caroline navigates the waters of the estuary, she also seeks out its stories: empty warehouses and arsenals; the Thames barrier, which guards the safety of Londoners more precariously than we might; ship wrecks still inhabited by the ghosts of the drowned; vast Victorian pumping stations which continue to carry away the capital's sewage; the river banks, layered with archaeological Anglo-Saxon treasures; literature inspired by its landscape; beacons used for centuries to guide boats through the dark and murky waterways of the estuary; the eerie Maunsell army forts - 24 metre high towers of concrete and steel which were built on concealed sandbanks at the far reaches of the estuary during the Second World War and designed to spot (and shoot) at incoming enemy planes; and the estuary's wildlife and shifting tidal moods. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Capitalism: A Graphic Guide Sharron Shatil (Author) Dan Cryan (Author) Piero (Illustrated by) Series:
Introducing...
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Imprint:
Icon Books Ltd
Publisher:
Icon Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h254mm x w177mm Illustrations, black and white 254mm x 177mm ISBN13: 9781785785146 ISBN13: 978-1-78578-514-6 ISBN10: 1785785141 EAN: 9781785785146 x Description: 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 crashes, the rise of service economies and concerns about sustainability. It also introduces us to the leading proponents and critics of capitalism, providing both a theoretical and practical understanding of this fascinating subject. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Secret DJ The Secret DJ (Author) Series:
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Main
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Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 254g ISBN13: 9780571334490 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33449-0 ISBN10: 0571334490 EAN: 9780571334490 x Description: DISCOVER THE REALITY OF LIFE AS A SUPERSTAR DJ IN THIS SENSATIONAL EXPOSE OF WHAT REALLY GOES ON BEHIND THE BPMs. The glamour, the parties, the excess, the highs and, of course, the lows. In The Secret DJ, a globally renowned DJ takes us on a breakneck journey, plunging us into a life lived in the hedonistic fast lane of club culture over the last thirty years, from the dawn of acid house to the dusk of EDM. Whether playing to ten thousand fans in Ibiza's superclubs or in a local pub function room, this DJ's experiences are a cautionary tale - an addictive and shockingly honest account of the hidden world behind the DJ booth. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden (Y) (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 672pp h199mm x w131mm x s41mm 465g ISBN13: 9781846277030 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-703-0 ISBN10: 1846277035 EAN: 9781846277030 This Product Replaces: 9781846276040 x Description: Every time you try to say 'Africa is...' the words crumble and break. From every generalisation you must exclude at least five countries. And just as you think you've nailed down a certainty, you find the opposite is also true. Africa is full of surprises. For the past three decades, Richard Dowden has travelled this vast and varied continent, listening, learning, and constantly re-evaluating all he thinks he knows. Country by country, he has sought out the local and the personal, the incidents, actions, and characters to tell a story of modern subSaharan Africa - an area affected by poverty, disease and war, but also a place of breathtaking beauty, generosity and possibility. The result is a landmark book, compelling, illuminating, and always surprising. Updated for 2018, Africa remains one of the most comprehensive, intelligent and responsive works on the continent ever written. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Freshwater Akwaeke Emezi (Author) Series:
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Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 194g ISBN13: 9780571345403 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34540-3 ISBN10: 0571345409 EAN: 9780571345403 x Description: 'Completely blew me away.' Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under 'One of the most dazzling debuts I've ever read.' Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go 'I'm urging everyone to read it.' Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure Ada has always been unusual. Her parents prayed her into existence, but something must have gone awry. Their troubled child begins to develop separate selves and is prone to fits of anger and grief.When Ada grows up and heads to college in America, a traumatic event crystallises the selves into something more powerful. As Ada fades into the background of her own mind, these 'alters' - now protective, now hedonistic - take control, shifting her life in a dangerous direction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Hunt David Farr (Author) Series:
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Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
20 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 96pp h198mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9780571354375 ISBN13: 978-0-571-35437-5 ISBN10: 0571354378 EAN: 9780571354375 x Description: We are a small community. The happiness of our children is everything. Our hopes and dreams rest in these tiny souls. In a small town in northern Denmark, the children celebrate Harvest Festival. In the forest by the water the men of the lodge stand naked in the cold. This is their country. This is their song. In the shadows, a lonely child gives a strange man her heart. The hunt begins. Based on Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm's Danish film thriller Jagten, David Farr's The Hunt opened at the Almeida, London, in June 2019. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ghost Riders: Operation Cowboy, the World War Two Mission to Save the World's Finest Horses Mark Felton (Author) Series:
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Icon Books Ltd
Publisher:
Icon Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm 8 Illustrations, black and white B-format Paperback ISBN13: 9781785785092 ISBN13: 978-1-78578-509-2 ISBN10: 1785785095 EAN: 9781785785092 x Description: April 1945. As Allied bombs rain down on Europe, a 400-year-old institution looks set to be wiped off the face of the Earth. The famous white Lipizzaner stallions of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, unique and precious animals representing centuries of careful breeding, are scattered across rural Austria and Czechoslovakia in areas soon to be swallowed up by Soviet forces - there, doubtless, to become rations for the Red Army. Their only hope lies with the Americans: what if a small, highly mobile US task force could be sent deep behind German lines, through fanatical SS troops, to rescue the horses before the Soviets arrive. Just five light tanks, a handful of armoured cars and jeeps, and 300 battle-weary GIs must plunge headlong into the unknown on a rescue mission that could change the course of European history. So begins Operation Cowboy, the greatest Second World War story that has never been fully told. GIs will join forces with surrendered German soldiers and liberated prisoners of war to save the world's finest horses from fanatical SS and the ruthless Red Army in an extraordinary battle during the last few days of the war in Europe. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Heartland: finding and losing schizophrenia Nathan Filer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export - Airside ed
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 256pp h216mm x w135mm x s18mm 287g ISBN13: 9780571345960 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34596-0 ISBN10: 0571345964 EAN: 9780571345960 x Description: 'Erudite, well-researched, and full of compassion... This book will change the way people understand schizophrenia, and that change is long overdue.' CHRISTIE WATSON, author of The Language of Kindness 'A truly important book. ' MAX PORTER, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny 'I have never read a more powerful book about mental health. it has the ability to change the way people think about mental illness.' JOANNA CANNON, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep 'Absolutely blew me away... I cannot think of another book in the field that would come close to this. In my opinion it is an essential read for those in the mental health arena and anyone whose relative has been touched with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.' JO BRAND Schizophrenia: whether it's the associations it conjures or the people it brings to mind, it is a word we all have a view on. How we perceive it - and how we treat people living with it - is at the core of how we understand mental health. But what do we really know? How much time do we spend listening? Do we truly comprehend this complex and often contradictory diagnosis? In The Heartland Nathan Filer, mental health nurse and award winning writer, takes us on a journey into the psychiatric wards he once worked on. He also invites us to spend time with world-leading experts, and with some extraordinary people who share their own stories - true stories - about living with this strange and misunderstood condition. The Heartland debunks myths, challenges assumptions and offers fresh insight into what it means to be mad.
And what it means to be human. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Heartland: finding and losing schizophrenia Nathan Filer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h216mm x w135mm x s18mm 385g ISBN13: 9780571345953 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34595-3 ISBN10: 0571345956 EAN: 9780571345953 x Description: 'Erudite, well-researched, and full of compassion... This book will change the way people understand schizophrenia, and that change is long overdue.' CHRISTIE WATSON, author of The Language of Kindness 'A truly important book. ' MAX PORTER, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny 'BRILLIANT... I don't understand how a book on this subject can be so enjoyable but it is. I love it.' PHILIPPA PERRY, author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read 'The Heartland is a brilliant, beautiful and bold book. It is illuminating and empathetic and needs to be read by all.' BRYONY GORDON, author of Mad Girl 'I have never read a more powerful book about mental health. it has the ability to change the way people think about mental illness.' JOANNA CANNON, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep 'Absolutely blew me away... I cannot think of another book in the field that would come close to this. In my opinion it is an essential read for those in the mental health arena and anyone whose relative has been touched with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.' JO BRAND 'This is a beautifully written book that brims with compassion and wit. The tone remains questing and buoyant even as we move through lives devastated by so-called schizophrenia. I hope it will be widely read and discussed.' Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times Schizophrenia: whether it's the associations it conjures or the people it brings to mind, it is a word we all have a view on. How we perceive it - and how we treat people living with it - is at the core of how we understand mental health. But what do we really know? How much time do we spend listening? Do we truly comprehend this complex and often contradictory diagnosis? In The Heartland Nathan Filer, mental health nurse and award winning writer, takes us on a journey into the psychiatric wards he once worked on. He also invites us to spend time with world-leading experts, and with some extraordinary people who share their own stories - true stories - about living with this strange and misunderstood condition. The Heartland debunks myths, challenges assumptions and offers fresh insight into what it means to be mad. And what it means to be human.
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Funeral Rites Jean Genet (Author) Series:
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Main
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Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 218g ISBN13: 9780571340859 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34085-9 ISBN10: 0571340857 EAN: 9780571340859 x Description: Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts into a poetic literature, with an honesty and explicitness unprecedented at the time. Widely considered an outstanding and unique figure in French literature, Genet wrote five novels between 1942 and 1947, now being republished by Faber & Faber in beautiful new paperback editions. Jean Genet began to write his third novel in 1943, but it was to be changed utterly by the death of Jean Decarnin. Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of the Second World War unfolds between the poles of his grief for his lover Jean, killed in the Resistance during the liberation of Paris, and his perverse attraction to the collaborator Riton. Powerfully written, and with moments of great poetic subtlety, Funeral Rites is a dark meditation on the mirror images of love and hate, sex and death. Includes a new introduction by Neil Bartlett. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Miracle of the Rose Jean Genet (Author) Series:
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Main
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Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 242g ISBN13: 9780571340842 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34084-2 ISBN10: 0571340849 EAN: 9780571340842 x Description: Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts into a poetic literature, with an honesty and explicitness unprecedented at the time. Widely considered an outstanding and unique figure in French literature, Genet wrote five novels between 1942 and 1947, now being republished by Faber & Faber in beautiful new paperback editions. Miracle of the Rose was Jean Genet's second novel, composed in 1943 while incarcerated in prison. The novel is informed by Genet's memories of confinement, both in prison and the Mettray reformatory where he spent three years from the age of 15. The central figure of the novel is Harcamone, whom Genet first encountered at Mettray, and who resurfaces in an adult prison -- now a murderer and, in the world-turned-upside-down of Genet's vision, a quasi-divine figure. Includes a new introduction by Terry Hands. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Infinite Blacktop: A Claire DeWitt Novel Sara Gran (Author) Series:
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Main
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Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 241g ISBN13: 9780571336616 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33661-6 ISBN10: 0571336612 EAN: 9780571336616
x Description: Driven off the desert road and left for dead, Claire DeWitt has to think fast to avoid the cops who arrive first on the scene. Making a break for it, she sets off in search of the person who tried to kill her, and the reasons why. But perhaps the biggest mystery of all lies deeper than that, somewhere out there on the ever rolling highway of life. Set between modern day Las Vegas and LA, The Infinite Blacktop sees 'the best detective in the world' wounded and disorientated, but just about standing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Caroline's Bikini Kirsty Gunn (Author) Series:
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Main
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Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 279g ISBN13: 9780571339341 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33934-1 ISBN10: 0571339344 EAN: 9780571339341 x Description: Caroline's Bikini is the tale of a classic love affair; a swirling cocktail of obsession and imagination. The moment that Evan Gordonstone - a successful middle-aged financier - meets Caroline Beresford - a glamorous housewife, hostess and landlady he falls into unrequited love, a story as old as Western literature itself. Evan recounts the tale of his infatuation to his friend Emily, and thus begins a hypnotic series of conversations set against the backdrop of West London bars, fuelled in intensity by endless G&Ts. From the depths of midwinter to July's hot swelter, Evan's retelling of his passion for Caroline will take him to the brink of his own destruction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Days of Awe A.M. Homes (Y) (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 215g ISBN13: 9781847083265 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-326-5 ISBN10: 1847083269 EAN: 9781847083265 x Description: 'Breathtakingly accurate satire and laser-cut portraits of American life from a seriously heavyweight author whose snapshots remain etched on the retinas' Evening Standard '...a writer to go travelling with on the journey called life' Jeanette Winterson '...one of our most important and original writers of fiction' Jay McInerney 'Ms. Homes just gets better and better' Gary Shteyngart 'a provocative and eloquent writer, and her vision of the way we live now is anything but safe' Meg Wolitzer ''Homes is a devastating satirist..' Lionel Shriver 'at her merciless satirical best' Tessa Hadley 'These defiantly comic stories are like postcards from contemporary America' Summer Books round up, Mail on Sunday The winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction returns with signature humour and psychological accuracy, to tell thirteen stories exposing the heart of an uneasy 21st-century America. In tales of a family obsessed with the surfaces of their lives, or the story of a shopper who suddenly finds himself nominated to run for President, she explores our attachments to each other through characters who aren't quite who they hoped to become, though
there is no one else they can be. Her first book since the Women's Prize-winning May We Be Forgiven, Days of Awe is another visionary, fearless and outrageously funny work from a master storyteller. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Peter Gynt Henrik Ibsen (Author) David Hare (Translated by) Series:
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Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
20 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9780571354771 ISBN13: 978-0-571-35477-1 ISBN10: 0571354777 EAN: 9780571354771 x Description: In this radical new version of Peer Gynt, David Hare kidnaps Henrik Ibsen's most famous hero and runs away with him into the twentyfirst century. Stripped of fretwork and greenery, the play is projected into a freewheeling modern world of music, dance, poetry, weddings, coronations, trolls and two-headed children as Peter steals a bride and embarks on an extraordinary lifetime's journey before returning home, finally, to Scotland. David Hare's Peter Gynt posits the same fundamental question the great Norwegian asked in 1867: does a belief in individualism help or hinder us in trying to live purposefully in the present day? The play opens at the National Theatre in July 2019 and transfers to the Festival Theatre Edinburgh, for the Edinburgh International Festival. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Mind to Murder P. D. James (Author) Series:
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Main
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Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 232g ISBN13: 9780571350780 ISBN13: 978-0-571-35078-0 ISBN10: 057135078X EAN: 9780571350780 x Description: A piercing scream, shattering the evening calm, brings Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from his literary party to the nearby Steen Psychiatric Clinic, where he discovers the body of a woman sprawled on the basement floor, a chisel thrust through her heart. As Dalgliesh probes beneath the apparently unruffled calm of the clinic, he discovers that many an intrigue lies hidden behind the Georgian terrace's unassuming facade. Professionally, he has never known the taste of failure. Now, for the first time, he feels unsure of his own mastery as he battles to unmask a cool killer who is proving to be his intellectual equal, and who is poised to strike again. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cover Her Face P. D. James (Author) Series:
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Main
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Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 232g ISBN13: 9780571350773 ISBN13: 978-0-571-35077-3 ISBN10: 0571350771 EAN: 9780571350773 This Product Replaces: 9780571228560 x Description: St Cedd's Church fete has been held in the grounds of Martingale manor house for generations. 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 afternoon, she also has to contend with the news of her son's sudden engagement to her new parlour maid, Sally Jupp. On the following morning the village are shocked by the discover of Sally's body. Investigating the violent death at the manor house, Detective Chief-Inspector Adam Dalgliesh is embroiled in the complicated passions beneath the calm surface of English village life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Unnatural Causes P. D. James (Author) Series:
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Main
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Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 232g ISBN13: 9780571350797 ISBN13: 978-0-571-35079-7 ISBN10: 0571350798 EAN: 9780571350797 This Product Replaces: 9780571253357 x Description: Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do other than enjoy long windswept walks, tea in front of a crackling wood fire and hotbuttered toast, Dalgliesh is relishing the thought of a well-earned break. However, all hope of peace is soon shattered by murder. The mutilated body of a local crime writer, Maurice Seaton, floats ashore in a dinghy, dragging Adam Dalgliesh into a new and macabre investigation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Deaf Republic Ilya Kaminsky (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
20 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 96pp h205mm x w155mm x s9mm 150g ISBN13: 9780571351411 ISBN13: 978-0-571-35141-1 ISBN10: 0571351417 EAN: 9780571351411 x Description: POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE 2019 Deaf Republic opens in a time of political unrest in an occupied territory. It is uncertain where we are or when, in what country or during what conflict, but we come to recognise that these events are also happening here, right now. This astonishing parable in poems unfolds episodically like a play, its powerful narrative provoked by a tragic opening scene: when soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear - in that moment, all have gone deaf. Inside this silence, their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story then follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting their child; the daring Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theatre; and Galya's puppeteers, covertly teaching signs by day and by night heroically luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Deaf Republic confronts our time's vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.
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Rules for Visiting Jessica Francis Kane (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h216mm x w135mm x s18mm 292g ISBN13: 9781783784646 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-464-6 ISBN10: 1783784644 EAN: 9781783784646 x Description: 'Midway through my fortieth year, I reached a point where the balance of the past and all it contained seemed to outweigh the future, my mind so full of things said and not said, done and undone, I no longer understood how to move forward' May is at a crossroads. Although her career as a gardener for the university is flourishing, the rest of her life has narrowed to a parched routine. Her father is elderly, her brother estranged, and she keeps her neighbours at arm's length. The missing element, she realises, might be friendship. As May sets off on a journey to visit four neglected friends one-by-one, she holds herself (and them) to humorously high standards, while at home she begins to confront the pain of her past and imagine for herself a different kind of future. May's quest becomes an exploration of the power, and perhaps limits, of modern friendship. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino Hiromi Kawakami (Y) (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h216mm x w135mm x s12mm 204g ISBN13: 9781846276972 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-697-2 ISBN10: 1846276977 EAN: 9781846276972 x Description: Who loves Mr Nishino? Minami is the daughter of Mr Nishino's true love. Bereaved Shiori is tempted by his unscrupulous advances. His colleague Manami should know better. His conquest Reiko treasures her independence above all else. Friends Tama and Subaru find themselves playing Nishino's game, but Eriko loves her cat more. Sayuri is older, Aichan is much younger, and Misono has her own conquests to make. For each of them, an encounter with elusive womaniser Mr Nishino will bring torments, desires and delights. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lark Ascending: The Music of the British Landscape Richard King (Events organiser) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 368pp h204mm x w153mm x s25mm 535g ISBN13: 9780571338795 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33879-5 ISBN10: 0571338798 EAN: 9780571338795 x Description: ROUGH TRADE AND CAUGHT BY THE RIVER BOOK OF THE MONTH The Lark Ascending, Ralph Vaughan Williams' 'pastoral romance for orchestra' was premiered on 14 June, 1921. Over the course of the twentieth century this piece of music, perhaps more than any other, worked its way into the collective consciousness to seemingly define a mythical concept of the English countryside: babbling brooks, skylarks, hayricks. But the birth and legacy of the composition are much more complex than this simplified pastoral vision suggests. The landscape we celebrate as unsullied and ripe with mystique is a living, working, and occasionally rancorous environment - not an unaffected idyll - that forged a nation's musical personality, and its dissenting traditions. On a chronological journey that takes him from postwar poets and artists to the late twentieth century and the free party scene which emerged from acid house and travelling communities, Richard King explores how Britain's history and identity has been shaped by the mysterious relationship between music and nature. From the far west of Wales to the Thames Estuary and the Suffolk shoreline, taking in Brian Eno, Kate Bush, Boards of Canada, Dylan Thomas, Gavin Bryars, Greenham Common and The Kinder Scout Mass Trespass, The Lark Ascending listens to the land and the music that emerged from it, to chart a new and surprising course through a familiar landscape. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Unsheltered Barbara Kingsolver (Author) Series:
Edition:
Open Market - Airside ed
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 544pp h178mm x w111mm x s32mm 288g ISBN13: 9780571347032 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34703-2 ISBN10: 0571347037 EAN: 9780571347032 x Description: Meet Willa Knox, a woman who stands braced against a world which seems to hold little mercy for her and her family - or their old, crumbling house, falling down around them. Willa's two grown-up children, a new-born grandchild, and her ailing father-in-law have all moved in at a time when life seems at its most precarious. But when Willa discovers that a pioneering female scientist lived on the same street in the 1800s, could this historical connection be enough to save their home from ruin? And can Willa, despite the odds, keep her family together? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Unsheltered Barbara Kingsolver (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 544pp h198mm x w129mm x s32mm 445g ISBN13: 9780571347025 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34702-5 ISBN10: 0571347029 EAN: 9780571347025
x Description: Meet Willa Knox, a woman who stands braced against a world which seems to hold little mercy for her and her family - or their old, crumbling house, falling down around them. Willa's two grown-up children, a new-born grandchild, and her ailing father-in-law have all moved in at a time when life seems at its most precarious. But when Willa discovers that a pioneering female scientist lived on the same street in the 1800s, could this historical connection be enough to save their home from ruin? And can Willa, despite the odds, keep her family together? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mailman J. Robert Lennon (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 496pp h199mm x w132mm x s31mm 420g ISBN13: 9781783785261 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-526-1 ISBN10: 1783785268 EAN: 9781783785261 x Description: A blackly comic epic - a voyage through small-town America, and through the interior life of its most neurotic mailman. Albert Lippincott is a thirty-year veteran of the Nestor, New York, Post Office - a letter carrier extraordinaire, aggressively cheerful, obsessively efficient. But Albert has a few things to hide. His unfortunate habit, for instance, of reading other people's mail; his abortive university career, complete with a crackpot theory, a nervous breakdown and a thwarted attempt to bite out his professor's eye; a disastrous marriage, grotesquely self-absorbed parents and a sexually ambiguous entanglement with his melodramatic sister. And then there's his attempt to reform the postal system of Kazakhstan and his complicated relationship with his cats. And now his supervisors are on to his letter-opening compulsion, there's a throbbing pain under his left arm and he is finding it increasingly difficult to contain his emotions. Things are closing in on Albert, and he is forced to confront, once and for all, his life's failures. Albert Lippincott is a brilliant creation: flawed, damaged, but fiercely perceptive, and desperate to make meaning out of the mess of existence. He, and Lennon, hold us captive with a wild narrative voice fuelled by desperation and touched by madness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Infused: Adventures in Tea Henrietta Lovell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h220mm x w150mm x s18mm 469g ISBN13: 9780571324392 ISBN13: 978-0-571-32439-2 ISBN10: 0571324398 EAN: 9780571324392 x Description: 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, introducing us to the individual growers and household name chefs Lovell has met along the way - and reveals the true pleasures of tea. The result is a delicious infusion of travel writing, memoir, recipes, and glorious photography, all written with Lovell's unique charm and wit. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Messenger Shiv Malik (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Guardian Faber Publishing
Publisher:
Guardian Faber Publishing
Pub Date:
20 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 336pp h234mm x w153mm x s23mm 457g ISBN13: 9781783350452 ISBN13: 978-1-78335-045-2 ISBN10: 1783350458 EAN: 9781783350452 x Description: Every reporter knows the first rule of journalism: never betray your source. But what if your source turns out to be unworthy of your silence? What if it's your source who betrays you? The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world - a repentant jihadist and an idealistic journalist. This troubling real-life thriller takes us from their first meeting in a spartan flat in the rough suburbs of Manchester, to a bombing in Pakistan, a dramatic arrest and Malik's reporting career on the brink of ruin. Ten years later, Malik returns to this extraordinary tale. He asks where we can place our trust - in reams of evidence, in a government we believe is on our side, in a terrorist who swears he's changed, in a friend who has no one else to turn to. Malik explores the uncomfortable questions about why he, as well as the wider media and the nation, surrendered to fear so easily. And he reveals how the age of terror laid the groundwork for an era of fake news and demagogues. This is investigative journalism and storytelling of the highest order. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sun on My Head Geovani Martins (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
20 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 132g ISBN13: 9780571348244 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34824-4 ISBN10: 0571348246 EAN: 9780571348244 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FIRST BOOK AWARD Thirteen stories set in Rio' largest favela, gravitating around the lives of young boys and men who, in spite of having to deal with the anguish and difficulties inherent to their age, also struggle with the violence involved in growing up on the less favoured side of the 'Broken City'. They smoke weed, sell weed, and notice the smell of weed lingering on the clothes of passersby in the streets. A boy steals his security-guard father's gun to show it to his friends. A young man steals purses for kicks, another relapses into an old graffiti habit, while another runs into trouble disposing of a body. Drugs and poverty colour them, but these stories also depict the pain of growing up with attendant hopes and desires. Geovani Martins has produced a spellbinding debut about masculinity, corruption, guilt, poverty and resilience. It is a story collection is completely of our time yet promises to be profoundly timeless, one that animates and humanises the people of a city whose humanity is often obscured by its own reputation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Rapture Series:
Edition:
Export - Airside ed
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 368pp h216mm x w153mm x s25mm 461g ISBN13: 9780571345182 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34518-2 ISBN10: 0571345182 EAN: 9780571345182 x Description: 'A remarkable story, remarkably told... I loved it. Claire McGlasson is a brave and brilliant new voice in fiction.' Jess Kidd, author of Himself and Things in Jars 'Gripping, unsettling and ultimately extremely moving. It is a tale beautifully and sensitively told that continues to haunt me.' Ruth Hogan Sunday Times bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things
Welcome to the Panacea Society, a terribly English cult...
Dilys is a devoted member of The Panacea Society, populated almost entirely by virtuous single ladies. When she strikes up a friendship with Grace, a new recruit, God finally seems to be smiling upon her. The friends become closer as they wait for the Lord to return to their very own Garden of Eden, and Dilys feels she has found the right path at last. But Dilys is wary of their leader's zealotry and suspicious of those who would seem to influence her for their own ends. As her feelings for Grace bud and bloom, the Society around her begins to crumble. Faith is supplanted by doubt as both women come to question what is true and fear what is real. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Rapture Claire McGlasson (Author) Series:
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Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 368pp h216mm x w153mm x s25mm 567g ISBN13: 9780571345175 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34517-5 ISBN10: 0571345174 EAN: 9780571345175 x Description: 'A remarkable story, remarkably told... Claire McGlasson is a brave and brilliant new voice in fiction.' Jess Kidd, author of Himself and Things in Jars 'Gripping, unsettling and ultimately extremely moving. It is a tale beautifully and sensitively told that continues to haunt me.' Ruth Hogan Sunday Times bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things
Welcome to the Panacea Society, a terribly English cult...
Dilys is a devoted member of The Panacea Society, populated almost entirely by virtuous single ladies. When she strikes up a friendship with Grace, a new recruit, God finally seems to be smiling upon her. The friends become closer as they wait for the Lord to return to their very own Garden of Eden, and Dilys feels she has found the right path at last. But Dilys is wary of their leader's zealotry and suspicious of those who would seem to influence her for their own ends. As her feelings for Grace bud and bloom, the Society around her begins to crumble. Faith is supplanted by doubt as both women come to question what is true and fear what is real.
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Four Soldiers Hubert Mingarelli (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 119g ISBN13: 9781846276514 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-651-4 ISBN10: 1846276519 EAN: 9781846276514 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2019 'I am astonished by Four Soldiers. I have never read anything like it, yet it is one of those books you feel must always have existed, a classic of writing about the human condition... A small miracle' Hilary Mantel 1919. The Russian Civil War. It is the harsh dead of winter, as four soldiers set up camp in a forest somewhere near the Romanian front line. There is a lull in the fighting, so their days are filled with precious hours of freedom, enjoying the tranquillity of a nearby pond and trying to forget their terrifying nightmares, all the while talking, smoking and waiting. Waiting for spring to come, waiting for their battalion to move on, waiting for the inevitable resumption of violence. Tightly focused and simply told, this is a story of friendship and the fragments of happiness that can illuminate the darkness of war. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ghost Wall Sarah Moss (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 119g ISBN13: 9781783784462 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-446-2 ISBN10: 1783784466 EAN: 9781783784462 x Description: 'I have never read a novel this slender that holds inside it quite so much. Wild, calm, dark yet hopeful... This book ratcheted the breath out of me so skilfully that as soon as I'd finished, the only thing I wanted was to read it again' Jessie Burton It is high summer in rural Northumberland. Seventeen-year-old Silvie and her parents have joined an encampment run by an archaeology professor with an interest in the region's dark history of ritual sacrifice. As Silvie finds a glimpse of new freedoms with the professor's students, her relationship with her overbearing father begins to deteriorate, until the haunting rites of the past begin to bleed into the present. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Meeting the British Paul Muldoon (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 80pp h196mm x w130mm x s7mm 110g ISBN13: 9780571330089 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33008-9 ISBN10: 0571330088 EAN: 9780571330089 This Product Replaces: 9780571148592 x Description: Meeting the British is Paul Muldoon's fifth collection of poems. They range from an account of the first recorded case of germ warfare, through a meditation on a bar of soap, to a sequence of monologues spoken by some of the famous, or infamous, inhabitants of '7, Middagh Street',
New York, on Thanksgiving Day, 1940. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Quantum Economics: The New Science of Money David Orrell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Icon Books Ltd
Publisher:
Icon Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm B-format ISBN13: 9781785785085 ISBN13: 978-1-78578-508-5 ISBN10: 1785785087 EAN: 9781785785085 x Description: 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 economics should begin by analysing the nature of money-based transactions. Quantum Economics therefore starts with the meaning of the phrase `how much' - or, to use the Latin word, quantum.
From quantum physics to the dualistic properties of money, via the emerging areas of quantum finance and quantum cognition, this profoundly important book reveals that quantum economics is to neoclassical economics what quantum physics is to classical physics - a genuine turning point in our understanding. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hayley the Hairy Horse Gavin Puckett (Author) Series:
Fables from the Stables
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 80pp h180mm x w140mm x s10mm 140g ISBN13: 9780571337804 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33780-4 ISBN10: 0571337805 EAN: 9780571337804 x Description: Hayley the Horse is a beauty! Her sleek tail was glossy, her black mane perfection. Her coat shone so bright you could see your reflection. And when she gets a haircut . . . she is proud to see her locks used to make fine paintbrushes and bows for violins. But when the famous violinist La Rue comes to town and spots Hayley, he hatches a plan to steal her whole tail. So Hayley has to be strong - this horse couldn't fail. There was no way on earth he was taking her tail! She is going to put on a performance that the Queen will never forget!
Another laugh-out-loud horsey fable from the brilliant Gavin Puckett! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine Kathleen Raine (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
20 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 384pp h234mm x w150mm x s29mm 575g ISBN13: 9780571352029 ISBN13: 978-0-571-35202-9 ISBN10: 0571352022 EAN: 9780571352029 x Description: In compiling her Collected Poems, Kathleen Raine was uniquely placed to look back on more than six decades of her poetry and to decide the canon by which she wished to be judged and remembered. From its first appearance her poetry has been recognised as possessing a rare imaginative integrity, remaining faithful to a formal purity of voice, as well as to an imagery whose resonances are at once her own voice yet speak as if from the heart of the human condition itself. These are poems of wonder, of distillation and, ultimately, of affirmation. This definitive collection demonstrates a lifetime's commitment to the learning of the imagination, and, since original publication in 2000, has confirmed Raine's reputation as a poet who has unfailingly given voice to a vision of life in which the temporal, in all its modes and places, is imbued with the numinous and the eternal. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cold Desert Sky Rod Reynolds (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 291g ISBN13: 9780571334728 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33472-8 ISBN10: 0571334725 EAN: 9780571334728 x Description: No one wanted to say it to me, that the girls were dead. But I knew . . . Late 1946 and Charlie Yates and his wife Lizzie have returned to Los Angeles, trying to stay anonymous in the City of Angels. But when Yates, back in his old job at the Pacific Journal, becomes obsessed by the disappearance of two aspiring Hollywood starlets, he finds it leads him right back to his worst fear: legendary mob boss Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, a man he once crossed, and whose shadow he can't shake. As Yates's search for the truth draws him to the desert and the burgeoning city of Las Vegas, he finds himself caught between the FBI and the mob. Can he possibly see who is playing who, and find out what really happened to the girls? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Astroquizzical: A Beginner's Journey Through the Cosmos Jillian Scudder (Author) Series:
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Icon Books Ltd
Publisher:
Icon Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm 16 Illustrations, color B-Format ISBN13: 9781785784125 ISBN13: 978-1-78578-412-5 ISBN10: 1785784129 EAN: 9781785784125
x Description: 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 bind us to our universe.
Based around readers' questions from the author's popular blog `Astroquizzical', the book provides a quirky guide to how things work in the universe and why things are the way they are, from shooting stars on Earth, to black holes, to entire galaxies. For anyone interested in the `big picture' of how the cosmos functions and how it is all connected, Jillian Scudder is the perfect guide. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
To Provide All People: A Poem in the Voice of the NHS Owen Sheers (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
03 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 109g ISBN13: 9780571348084 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34808-4 ISBN10: 0571348084 EAN: 9780571348084 x Description: 'Should be made compulsory reading . . . If it were up to me this clear-sighted yet emotionally charged hymn to the NHS would be added to the curriculum in every high school from Land's End to John O'Groats with immediate effect.' i newspaper July 2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service Act. To Provide All People is the intimate story of the NHS in British society today, written by novelist, poet and dramatist Owen Sheers. Depicting 24 hours, with a regional hospital at the centre of the action, the poem charts an emotional and philosophical map of the NHS against the personal experiences that lie at its heart; from patients to surgeons, porters to midwives. This is a world of transformative pains, triumphs, losses and celebrations and joins us all in our universal experiences of health and sickness, birth and death, regardless of race, gender or wealth. Informed by over seventy hours of interviews, the work is punctuated with the historical narrative of the birth of the NHS Act. To Provide All People was filmed by Vox Pictures/BBC Wales. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Unicorns, Almost Owen Sheers (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 96pp h198mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9780571357017 ISBN13: 978-0-571-35701-7 ISBN10: 0571357016 EAN: 9780571357017 x Description: Unicorns, Almost portrays the short life of World War II poet Keith Douglas, from his childhood through four engagements to his fighting in the Western desert, his accelerated education as a poet and his early death three days after the Normandy D-Day landings at the age of twenty-four. It is the story of his Faustian pact with a war that would nurture his unique poetic voice before taking it away. It is also the story of his desperate race to see his poems in print. Widely recognised as the finest poet of World War Two, Keith Douglas was championed by Ted Hughes as an important influence. Hughes wrote the introduction to Douglas's Collected Poems, published by Faber.
Unicorns, Almost by Owen Sheers opened at The Swan Hotel, Hay-on-Wye, in May 2018, and went on to tour in Normandy, Edinburgh and Bristol in Summer 2019. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Either Ruby Thomas (Author) Series:
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Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 96pp h198mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9780571356331 ISBN13: 978-0-571-35633-1 ISBN10: 0571356338 EAN: 9780571356331 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Women Talking Miriam Toews (Author) Miriam Toews (Author) Miriam Toews (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 194g ISBN13: 9780571340330 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34033-0 ISBN10: 0571340334 EAN: 9780571340330 x Description: Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote Mennonite colony, over one hundred girls and women were raped by what many thought were ghosts or demons. Their accounts were dismissed as 'wild female imagination'. Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. When the women learn the truth, they meet secretly to discuss how to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm. But they have just two days to decide, before the rapists are bailed out and brought home. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Apollo 11: The Inside Story David Whitehouse (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Icon Books Ltd
Publisher:
Icon Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h216mm x w135mm 16 Plates, color Demy paperback ISBN13: 9781785785122 ISBN13: 978-1-78578-512-2 ISBN10: 1785785125 EAN: 9781785785122 x Description: `Terrific and enthralling' New Scientist
Fifty years ago, in July 1969, Apollo 11 became the first manned mission to land on the Moon, and Neil Armstrong the first man to step on to its surface. He and his crewmates, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, were the latest men to risk their lives in this extraordinary scientific, engineering and human venture that would come to define the era.
In Apollo 11: The Inside Story, David Whitehouse reveals the true drama behind the mission, putting it in the context of the wider space race and telling the story in the words of those who took part - based around exclusive interviews with the key players.
This enthralling book takes us from the early rocket pioneers to the shock America received from the Soviets' launch of the first satellite, Sputnik; from the race to put the first person into space to the iconic Apollo 11 landing and beyond, to the agonising drama of the Apollo 13 disaster and the eventual winding-up of the Apollo program.
Here is the story as told by the crew of Apollo 11 and the many others who shared in their monumental endeavour. Astronauts, engineers, politicians, NASA officials, Soviet rivals - all tell their own story of a great moment of human achievement. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Artificial Intelligence: Modern Magic or Dangerous Future? Yorick Wilks (Author) Series:
Hot Science
Edition:
Imprint:
Icon Books Ltd
Publisher:
Icon Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm B-format ISBN13: 9781785785160 ISBN13: 978-1-78578-516-0 ISBN10: 1785785168 EAN: 9781785785160 x Description: 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 history of artificial intelligence up to the present day, examining its origins, controversies and achievements, as well as looking into just how it works. He also considers the future, assessing whether these technologies could menace our way of life, but also how we are all likely to benefit from AI applications in the years to come. Entertaining, enlightening, and keenly argued, this is the essential one-stop guide to the AI debate. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lines Off Hugo Williams (poetry ed Spectator) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 80pp h223mm x w145mm x s10mm 230g ISBN13: 9780571349753 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34975-3 ISBN10: 0571349757 EAN: 9780571349753 x Description: 'Lines off' is a term used for lines spoken from the wings of a theatre, or off-camera in a film. It was while Hugo Williams was out of circulation following transplant surgery that he wrote the poems for this new collection - the first since I Knew the Bride (2014), shortlisted for the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. From youthful days 'upside down in the Crazy Room, / rising and falling on the Haunted Swing', he takes us to distant countries, both actual and metaphorical; participates in the 'mortal pantomime' of the hospital ward with humorous frankness; and offers a percipient account of growing older, with all its attendant doubts and disturbances. Autobiographical, psychological, remedial, Lines Off heralds the return of this acclaimed poet, back to the stage of the page, offering us 'the performance of a lifetime'.
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