Asteroid City (adapted from a “hypothetical” play) takes place in a fictional desert town, circa 1955. Synopsis: the itinerary of...

Ahead of a big author visit, Humphrey and his friends try writing their own stories, but Humphrey worries that hamsters don’t...

Jorge said he wasn’t coming back until I learned how to be a better wife . . . But before he drove off he gave me a new...

Winner of the Whitbread Best First Novel of the Year

In his classic debut novel, Gordon Burn takes Britain's biggest selling...

Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom – and loneliness – marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The...

In the late 1970s, a young boy disappears from a summer cabin in the Swedish woods. His mother claims that he was abducted by a...

To celebrate his tenth birthday the whole Humphrey series has a smart new livery, repositioning him alongside perennial...

For fans of Inside Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen — with an introduction by Reece Shearsmith

Aickman’s ‘strange stories’...

One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city – but...

Once an officer in the Irish War for Independence, Moran is now a widower, eking out a living on a small farm where he raises his...

Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters.

Elf is a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to...

Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when...

This remarkable volume brings together all of John McGahern’s short fiction, fully revised, in a definitive text. McGahern has...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and...

Fame, success, fortune, a drink problem slipping over the edge into alcoholism, a dead marriage, the incurable itches of...

Open with your best gag. Finish with your second best.
Make sure your face matches the material.
Sell your routine . ....

Meet the Troutmans. Hattie is living in Paris, city of romance, but has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Min, her sister back...

Based on a remarkable true story, Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid is a moving, inspiring novel of a life lived in hope.

Samia...

Madame Zero is a remarkable collection of dark, sensuous stories set in sometimes conflicting landscapes – rural, industrial,...

Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in...

In 1982, East Germany's fearsome secret police - convinced that writers were embedding subversive messages in their work -...

As I stepped over one of the Germans an impulse made me lift him up from the miserable ditch. Propped against the bank, his blond...

‘Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin . . .‘

The explosion that detonates the...

When Humphrey learns that school is ending, he was unsqueakably worried. What would he do once he lost his job as classroom pet?...

Everyone's favourite classroom hamster is back!

Dear Friends,

At last, spring has come! Lucky for Room 26 where I'm class...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Our Fathers is a powerful reclamation of the past from one of Britain’s most accomplished...

In a hard-boiled city of crooks, grifts and rackets lurk a pair of toughs: Box and _____. They're the kind of men capable of...

When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into a private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a...

Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him...

What if…?
A large wolf escapes its captors.
A cult leader breaks out of psychiatric care.
A disillusioned woman is forced to...