Category Archives: Travel Guides
Homeland: Faber Stories
“You have to marry outside your clan,” she said. “That`s law. All the people we knew were Bird Clan. All the others were gone.”When Gloria`s great-grandmother, Green Leaf, left her home in the Hiwassee Valley of Tennessee, it was with a man on a stolen horse. She was one of the fugitive bands of Cherokee
A River in Egypt: Faber Stories
In his masterful story `A River in Egypt`, David Means paints a portrait of a moment. Cavanaugh and his young son are suspended; trapped in what a nurse calls `the sweat chamber`, where the boy will be tested for cystic fibrosis.Cavanaugh has brought distractions – spasmodic action figures, malformed toy trucks – but they do
The Greeks: A Global History
“A wonderful book.” Peter Frankopan”Remarkable” Ian Morris, author of `Why the West Rules-For Now`The way we think. The way we learn. The entertainment we seek. The way we are governed.It all began on the mountains and islands of Europe`s southeastern edge, more than 3,000 years ago.`The Greeks` is the story of a culture that has
Intimacies: Winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award
Winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story AwardIn eleven stories, Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in the world. From a Belfast student ordering illegal drugs online to end an unwanted pregnancy to a young mother`s brush with mortality, and from a Christmas Eve walking
Shell Life on the Seashore
Originally published in 1961, `Shell Life on the Seashore` is an amateur beachcombing classic. This newly reissued and updated edition includes a new foreword by Philip Hoare and an illustrated fold-out guide to identifying shells on the reverse of the book jacket.”Armed with this intrepid survey, we can see a brave new world down there
Christmas in Austin
A luminous family saga from one of Granta`s Best Young British NovelistsWhen the four Essinger children gather in Austin for Christmas, they all bring their news. Nathan wants to become a federal judge. Susie`s husband has taken a job in England. Jean has asked her boyfriend and (once-married) boss to meet her family. Paul has
The Country Girls Trilogy: The Country Girls; The Lonely Girl; Girls in their Married Bliss
Edna O`Brien`s first novel The Country Girls and its sequels The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s. The characters of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan have inspired generation after generation of readers and writers, as we see them struggling against the confines
Sex and Lies
The first work of non-fiction in English from the prize-winning and internationally bestselling author of `Lullaby` and `Adรจle`In these essays, Leila Slimani gives voice to young Moroccan women who are grappling with a conservative Arab culture that at once condemns and commodifies sex. In a country where the law punishes and outlaws all forms of
Pet
How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?She stumbled backwards, her eyes wide, as the figure started coming out of the canvas…She tried to be brave. Well, she said, her hands only a little shaky, at least tell me what I should call you…Well, little girl, it replied,
Strange Hotel
From the multi-award-winning author of the literary phenomenon `A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing`.At the mid-point of her life a woman enters an Avignon hotel room. She`s been here once before – but while the room hasn`t changed, she is a different person now.Forever caught between check-in and check-out, she will go on to occupy
This Mournable Body
“As natural as the grass grows.” Chinua Achebe”[Dangarembga] is a wonderful creator of character.” Doris LessingIn this tense and psychologically charged novel, Tsitsi Dangarembga channels the hope and potential of one young girl and a fledgling nation to lead us on a journey to discover where lives go after hope has departed.Here we meet Tambudzai,
Come Rain or Come Shine: Faber Stories
When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he`s given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison.But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone,
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family, Cordelia soon
The Victim: Faber Stories
`On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. That was when the Inspector suddenly intervened. He said in a harsh voice: “He married your wife, didn`t he? Took her away from you some people might say. Nice piece of goods, too, by the look of
Death in Holy Orders
When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of East Anglican coast, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to pay a visit to the young man`s theological college, St Anselm`s, a place he knew as a boy, expecting
Paradise: Faber Stories
An unnamed protagonist is on holiday with her new, much-married lover, in the company of the monstrously rich.`How long would she last? It would be uppermost in all their minds.`Each day, while the others are out at sea, she is taught to swim. Eventually, she will be expected to perform. The pressure mounts; it is
The Skull Beneath the Skin
A Cordelia Gray MysteryHired to protect a beautiful but neurotic actress, Cordelia Gray soon becomes embroiled in a case as dangerous to her own life as it is mysterious.Clarissa Lisle hopes to make a spectacular comeback in a production of `The Duchess of Malfi`, to be played in Ambrose Gorringe`s sinister castle at Courcy Island.
An Elegy for Easterly: Faber Stories
The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England`s visit. `The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up and put them in the places the Queen will not see.` Four waves of people have settled on Easterly Farm since then, living on the margins in homes that will soon
The Forester`s Daughter: Faber Stories
The evening is fine. In the sky a few early stars are shining of their own accord. She watches the dog licking the bowl clean. This dog will break her daughter`s heart, she`s sure of it.Claire Keegan`s mesmeric story takes us into the heart of the Wicklow countryside, and of the farming family of Victor
Mr Salary: Faber Stories
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all.Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go. Now they are on the brink of the inevitable.Sally
