Series: Faber Firsts

Faber Firsts is a series of ten republished paperbacks of great Faber debut novels, each one styled by contemporary designers to match classic eras of Faber's design history - referencing the likes of the great Berthold Wolpe, Barnett Freedman, Edward Ardizzone and Edward Bawden.

As featured online at Waterstone's.


Series: Faber Firsts

Series: Faber Firsts

  • The Barracks by John McGahern

    The Barracks
    The first novel by John McGahern, originally published in 1963. Elizabeth Regan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The ...

  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

    The Bell Jar
    The first and only novel by Sylvia Plath, originally published in 1963. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing ...

  • Bliss by Peter Carey

    Bliss
    The first novel by Peter Carey, published originally in 1981. For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack in ...

  • The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi

    The Buddha of Suburbia
    The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi's first novel, is a tour de force of comic invention, a bizarre, often hilarious, and totally original picture of the life of a young ...

  • Cover Her Face by P. D. James

    Cover Her Face
    AN ADAM DALGLIESH MYSTERY St Cedd's Church fête has been held in the grounds of Martingale manor house for generations. As if organizing stalls, as well as presiding over luncheon, ...

  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding

    Lord of the Flies
    Martin Jarvis reads William Golding's classic novel in a major new unabridged recording.

  • The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

    The New York Trilogy
    The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all ...

  • A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

    A Pale View of Hills
    The first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, originally published in 1982. Etsuko is a Japanese woman now living alone in England. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular ...

  • Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry

    Such a Long Journey
    Such a Long Journey is set in Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in ...

  • The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk

    The White Castle
    The first novel to appear in English by Nobel Prize-winning Orhan Pamuk, originally published in 1990.A young Italian scholar is captured by pirates in Italy and put up for auction ...
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