Jingle bells, Jingle bells, smelly pooh and bum!You can wait for Christmas but it's never going to come!When a miniature reindeer named Percy falls down the chimney of the Trubshaws' holiday cottage,
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspic
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.Who was she? Where was she going? Why did she return?It is 1945
Before Mark Morris became "the most successful and influential choreographer alive" (The New York Times), he was a six year-old in Seattle cramming his feet into Tupperware glasses so that he could pr
I'm going to tell him to pick up his prayer mat and get out of my house.When Parvez's son Ali starts clearing out his bedroom, Parvez assumes he's taking drugs and selling his possessions to pay for t
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.'Be sure you don't answer the door to anyone you don't know.'A
Terrence Malick's debut film, Badlands, announced the arrival of a unique talent. In the 40 years since that debut, Malick has only made five films, but they are distinctive in their beauty.This book
A piercing scream, shattering the evening calm, brings Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from his literary party to the nearby Steen Psychiatric Clinic, where he discovers the body of a woman spr
Meanwhile, her friend, Inspector Archie Penrose is investigating the sadistic murder of a young seamstress, found dead in the Motley sisters' studio, amid preparations for a star-studded charity gala.
How did Britain so lose the plot that today there is not a single aircraft manufacturer of any significance in the country? The author captures that season of glory in a book that fuses his own memori
A sister is for life: your best friend, or your worst enemy. She is the yardstick by which you measure how well you're doing and the keeper of your family secrets. She may be the first person you rush
This is certainly unsettling territory and Carr boldly goes for it.' Financial TimesMarble'An extraordinary play that lures us in with a promise of the recognisable only to drag us screaming into the
His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us 'to be more resolutely and abundantly alive, whatever the conditions.'Other volumes in this series: Auden, Bet
When famous film star Tawdry Hipbone visits Grubtown for the world premiere of her latest movie, Mayor Gomez couldn't be more excited but, as usual, nothing goes to plan. Miss Hipbone's dog is snatche
If Beardy Ardagh is to be believed, things all start going on the bonkers side of very wrong when Mayor Flabby Gomez finally finishes knitting his new home and declares a public holiday in Grubtown fo
Summer, 1936. The writer, Josephine Tey, joins her friends in the holiday village of Portmeirion to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, are there to sign a de
Dear friends, I LOVE-LOVE-LOVE sharing my adventures as a classroom hamster with all my friends. But sometimes my paw gets tired from so much writing! To give it a rest, I've written some shorter tale
A novel that follows four people on the road: a young sailor hitchhiking to Tennessee from the West Coast, a one-armed con-man, a kid dodging the law, and an enigmatic young woman who has fled her sor
Frost returned to the safety of New England while Thomas stayed to fight for the Old. It is these roads taken - and those not taken - that are at the heart of this remarkable book, which culminates
