Nocturnes: Kazuo Ishiguro
Described by the New York Times as ‘an original and remarkable genius’, Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six novels, including Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day.
Now in Nocturnes, a sublime story cycle, he explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the ‘hush-hush floor’ of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning.
Gentle, intimate and witty, this quintet is marked by a haunting theme: the struggle to keep alive a sense of life’s romance, even as one gets older, relationships flounder and youthful hopes recede.
Film and animation by George Wu. More
Coda: Simon Gray
All four of Simon Gray's Smoking Diaries are now on Faber Audiobooks. They conclude with Coda, Gray's account of 'the beginning of his dying'. More
Look We Have Coming to Dover!: Daljit Nagra
Look We Have Coming to Dover! is the most acclaimed debut collection of poetry published in recent years, as well as one of the most relevant and accessible. Nagra, whose ... More
Something to Tell You: Hanif Kureishi
Something to Tell You takes us inside the life and mind of Jamal, a fifty-something psychoanalyst, who finds people from his student days in the 1970s returning to haunt him in unsettling ways. Here's the author explaining more. More
The World According to Humphrey: Betty G. Birney
A charming, unsqueakably engaging hamster's-eye view of school, families and having fun, read by Greg Proops. He's the world's favourite hamster! More
My Name is Red: Orhan Pamuk
A modern classic. Orhan Pamuk's historical whodunnit, set in the court of a 16th-century Sultan. Complete and unabridged. More
Four Quartets: T. S. Eliot
A major new recording of T. S. Eliot's defining collection, Four Quartets, read by Ralph Fiennes. More
Dart: Alice Oswald
A wonderfully evocative poetic census, read by the author. More
Man in the Dark: Paul Auster
Picture an America where the twin towers did not fall, a country not at war with Iraq but with itself. That's exactly what August Brill, the writer at the centre of Paul Auster's Man in the Dark, does ... More
The Sunday Sessions: Philip Larkin
Published in full for the first time, The Sunday Sessions consists of twenty-six poems, recorded by Philip Larkin in Hull in February 1980. More
The Year of the Jouncer: Simon Gray
A great many writers use their own lives as the raw material for their work but few have done it with the wit and courage of Simon Gray. Like his ... More
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