Sometimes – perhaps only for an instant – we fail to recognise a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus...

In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally...

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

The end of the war . . .
Two hopeful sisters . . .
A magical wood . . .

‘You’re telling me there are fairies in this...

'That is how it works in the City. Every time you think you know the answer to a question, you discover that the question makes...

‘It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.’

Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long...

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

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old...

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...

Wes Anderson startled audiences with his stop-motion animated film of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox.
He now displays his unique...

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

'Plain' orphan Jane Eyre is not...

Michaelmas term, 1940. 18-year-old John Kemp has come down from Lancashire to Oxford University to begin his scholarship studying...

Rediscover one of the twentieth century's greatest romances: this seductive tale of four tangled lovers in wartime Egypt,...

Anna is in love. Or maybe she's not. She's free spirit: definitely happy. Or is it more panicked? In any case, she is living life...

In the first book by a British writer about this extraordinary football manager, lifelong Liverpool fan Anthony Quinn has crafted...

Not far from London, there is a village.

This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it...

Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then banned. The seven...

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

We weren’t supposed to be going to the pictures that night. We weren’t even meant to be outside, not in a blackout, and...

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

The explosion that detonates the...

November 1944. A German rocket strikes London and five young children are atomised in an instant.

Here are the futures they...

William Golding's Lord of the Flies is a dystopian classic: 'exciting, relevant and thought-provoking' (Stephen King). When a...

The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds.

When Myriam, a brilliant lawyer, decides to return to work, she and her husband...

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

'Malone', writes Malone, 'is what I am called now.' On his deathbed, and wiling away the time with stories, the octogenarian...

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

What, what, am I to do with all of this life?

Maud Martha Brown is a little girl growing up on the South Side of 1940s...

It’s a big bad world out there, in Dopamine City.

All Lonnie Cush wants is to keep his kids safe.

But Shelby-Ann – his...

George Sherston develops from a shy and awkward child, through shiftless adolescence, to an officer just beginning to understand...

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...