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Specially for Past Present Future listeners, we have collected together a selection of books by great writers, thinkers and essayists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Faber has been publishing independently for nearly a century, across poetry and fiction but also politics, philosophy, biography, history, drama and film. Here are some titles to get started.

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A provocative and rousing essay collection from one of Europe’s greatest living writers.

A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe (Hardback)
Milan Kundera
£10.00
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An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely…

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
Tania Branigan
£9.99
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When should we revolt? A life-changing insight into violent political change by one of the world’s greatest political thinkers and author…

On Revolution (Faber Modern Classics Edition)
Hannah Arendt
£10.99
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A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot’s celebrated poem The Waste Land, by a Costa award-winning biographer.

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
Matthew Hollis
£12.99£10.99
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1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, by James Shapiro, is an intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a…

1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
James Shapiro
£14.99
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The epic, fascinating history of one of the world’s great cultures.

The Greeks: A Global History
Roderick Beaton
£12.99
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A sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford…

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Katherine Rundell
£12.99
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Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the forgotten history of Britain’s lost cities, ghost…

Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain
Matthew Green
£10.99
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The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe is a fascinating search for an understanding of philosophy, cosmology,…

The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe
Michael Frayn
£14.99
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Arise, England

A lively, new and sweeping history of the rise of the state in Plantagenet England by Caroline Burt and Richard Partington.

Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State (Hardback)
Richard Partington
£25.00
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A radical reexamination of memory, by the pioneering neuroscientist and internationally-renowned memory researcher.

Why We Remember: The Science of Memory and How it Shapes Us (Hardback)
Charan Ranganath
£20.00
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A unified theory of reasonableness – and how to be unreasonable for the right reasons.

On Being Unreasonable: Why Being Bad Can Be a Force for Good
Kirsty Sedgman
£9.99
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An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely…

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
Tania Branigan
£9.99
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An unmissable journey into the past, present and future of urban life.

The City of Today is a Dying Thing: In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow (Hardback)
Des Fitzgerald
£18.99
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A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world’s most extraordinary endangered animals.

The Golden Mole and Other Vanishing Treasure
Katherine Rundell
£10.99
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The first biography of Bergman in 40 years, containing exclusive extracts from workbooks and letters.

God and the Devil (Hardback)
Peter Cowie
£30.00
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The letters provide us with an intimate, multi-layered understanding of this extraordinary poet’s life and mind.

The Letters of Seamus Heaney (Hardback)
Seamus Heaney
£40.00
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A stirring account of how music acts as a witness to history and a medium of cultural memory in the post-Holocaust…

Time’s Echo (Hardback)
Jeremy Eichler
£25.00
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A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot’s celebrated poem The Waste Land, by a Costa award-winning biographer.

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
Matthew Hollis
£12.99£10.99
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A dazzling tapesty of personal memory and distant landscapes from the renowned anthropologist and film-maker, Hugh Brody.

Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic
Hugh Brody
£12.99
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The first book of reportage from the front line of the Ukraine war. This is a powerful and moving first draft…

Invasion: Russia’s Bloody War and Ukraine’s Fight for Survival
Luke Harding
£10.99
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A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew.

Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement
James Vincent
£12.99
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Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the forgotten history of Britain’s lost cities, ghost…

Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain
Matthew Green
£10.99
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The story of a strange experiment – a journey into the oddest corners of 60s Britain and the outer edges of…

The Premonitions Bureau
Sam Knight
£10.99
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A provocative and rousing essay collection from one of Europe’s greatest living writers.

A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe (Hardback)
Milan Kundera
£10.00
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A sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford…

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Katherine Rundell
£12.99
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A captivating exploration of Britain’s most iconic contemporary buildings, from the Barratt home to the Millennium Dome.

Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain
John Grindrod
£10.99
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Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change.

Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962–97
Richard King
£12.99
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