Results for: books tagged ‘Faber Finds’
'Tears Before Bedtime' and 'Weep No More': Barbara Skelton
The expression 'femme fatale' could have been coined for Barbara Skelton. She had many admirers - Peter Quennell, Feliks Topolski, Cyril Connolly, King Farouk, George Weidenfeld, Derek Jackson, the list ... More
Acky: George Ewart Evans
Acky is a unique and simple collection of stories about country life in Suffolk. As the author says: ‘You won’t find the names of Akerman Flatt and his wife, Sarah, ... More
Across the Common: Elizabeth Berridge
When Louise returns to the house where she was brought up, old violence stirs beneath the calm surface. What, for instance, is the significance of the rare Chinese lily carefully ... More
Adrian Boult: Michael Kennedy
Sir Adrian Boult (1889-1983) was one of the greatest English conductors. He had a long association with the BBC, as director of music, and, more famously, as the permanent conductor ... More
After My Fashion: John Cowper Powys
After My Fashion has an unusual publishing history. Although it was John Cowper Powys third novel written in 1920, it wasn't published until 1980. It seems that when his US ... More
After the Rain: John Bowen
First published in 1958 After the Rain was described by Angus Wilson as a 'cataclysmic novel ... as exciting as any deluge you can hope to find; but if you ... More
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: Louis MacNeice
Louis MacNeice read classics at Oxford, and his professional life began as a lecturer in classics, before his career developed as a poet and broadcaster. Published in 1936 and intended ... More
Alamein to Zem Zem: Keith Douglas
A classic war book by one of the finest poets of the Second World War. Keith Douglas was posted to Palestine in 1941 with a cavalry regiment. When fighting broke ... More
All Day Saturday: Colin MacInnes
Lusty sheep farmers and their sensible wives, brainy engineers and over-dressed girls on the make - the whole district loves the parties Helen Bailey throws at Cotamundra station each Saturday. ... More
Among the Cities: Jan Morris
‘Years and years ago, observing that nobody in the history of man had ever seen and described the entire urban world, I resolved to do it myself ...’It was thirty ... More
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