Amongst Women - Faber Modern Classics (McGahern John)(Paperback / softback)

Amongst Women - Faber Modern Classics (McGahern John)(Paperback / softback)

John McGahern is widely considered to be one of Ireland's greatest writers, with fans including John Updike, Hilary Mantel, Colm Toibin and John

Amongst Women (McGahern John)(Paperback / softback)

Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the

Dark (McGahern John)(Paperback / softback)

Set in rural Ireland, John McGahern's second novel is about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and widower

Snow - John Banville

On Revolution - Faber Modern Classics (Arendt Dr. Hannah)(Paperback / softback)

Hannah Arendt's penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of the political

Self-Help - Faber Modern Classics (Moore Lorrie)(Paperback / softback)

Complicated, awkward, funny, cruel, heartbroken, mysterious; Self-Help forms an idiosyncratic guide to female existence which is just as relevant today as it was 30 years ago. This is how to deal with divorce, adultery, cancer, how to talk to your mother or become a writer, the Lorrie Moore

Meaning of Art - Faber Modern Classics (Read Herbert)(Paperback / softback)

Explains the persistence of certain principles and aspirations throughout the history of art. This title provides a basis for the appreciation of paintings, sculpture and art-objects of all periods by defining the elements that went into their

Pincher Martin - Faber Modern Classics (Golding William)(Paperback / softback)

Through the long hours with only himself to talk to, Martin must try to assemble the truth of his fate, piece by terrible piece. While most readers are aware of William Golding as the writer of Lord of the Flies, it is Pincher Martin, his third novel, that speaks most directly to contemporary

Faber Book of Utopias (Carey Professor John)(Paperback / softback)

An experienced and imaginative anthologist, editor of The Faber Book of Reportage and The Faber Book of Science, Carey has gathered together a vast range of texts from Ancient Egypt to modern California, the authors of which, in different ways, attempt to describe a better world than our

Nightwood - Faber Modern Classics (Barnes Djuna)(Paperback / softback)

Nightwood tells the stories of the love-lives of a group of Americans and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s - an exotic, night-time underworld, eccentric, seedy and

Anna Livia Plurabelle - Faber Modern Classics (Joyce James)(Paperback / softback)

As James Joyce was working on Finnegans Wake, he asked his friend T.S. This celebrated episode, Anna Livia Plurabelle, was the first part of Joyce's extraordinary text to be published in England, printed in pamphlet form in

Little Women (Alcott Louisa May)(Paperback / softback)

This beautiful HarperCollins Children's Classics edition of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women is the perfect addition to any

Ariel - Faber Modern Classics (Plath Sylvia)(Paperback / softback)

Contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. This title includes poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic'

Moscow Stations - Faber Modern Classics (Yerofeev Venedikt)(Paperback / softback)

Venya is more interested in how much he and his colleagues can drink during the working day than in his job. Once he is fired, he spends the last of his money on booze and sets off on a train journey to visit beautiful, picturesque, utopian Petushki, where his beloved and child are waiting for him

Wild Wanderings - A Life Amongst Mountains (Gribbon Phil)(Paperback / softback)

Faber Book of Reportage (Carey Professor John)(Paperback / softback)

What was it like to be caught in the firestorm that destroyed Pompeii? John Carey's best-selling Faber Book of Reportage draws its eyewitness account from memoirs, travel books and newspapers. There are descriptions in this book so fresh that they sear themselves into the imagination.' Jeremy

Crimson Petal And The White (Faber Michel)(Paperback / softback)

So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian London. Amongst an unforgettable cast of low-lifes, physicians, businessmen and prostitutes, meet our heroine Sugar, a young woman trying to drag herself up from the gutter any way she can. Be prepared for a mesmerising tale of

Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period (Atherton Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Faber Book of Monologues: Women(Paperback / softback)

Whether you are a professional actor looking for fresh audition pieces, an amateur in search of competition-worthy monologues, or a student in need of the right speech for workshop, this title offers an array of speeches from a diverse range of first-class playwrights. Each selection includes a

Something Like Happy (Burnside John)(Paperback / softback)

In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by disappointment; all kinds of women, all kinds of men - lonely, unfaithful, dying - driving empty roads at

Ghost Story (Straub Peter)(Paperback / softback)

One of the great classics of modern

ISE Modern Compressible Flow: With Historical Perspective (Anderson John)(Paperback / softback)

Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women (MacFarlane Alex)(Paperback / softback)

A celebration of women's contribution to science fiction, from established classics to the work of coming

Trainspotting (Hodge John)(Paperback / softback)

One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber's extensive list of film