Series: Faber Editions

This breathtaking collection is a marvel ... One of my literary foremothers.' Tayari Jones 'Astute, brilliantly observed, these timeless stories are remarkable. It's all the more poignant to know the writer died at such a heartbreakingly young age:' Jackie Kay And she was becoming frightened too, looking at all those white faces pressed against the windowpanes. One Black family comes...

Our Sister Killjoy invites readers to join a young Ghanaian woman on her journey into Europe's heart of whiteness to meet the natives in this iconoclastic modern classic. 'A wondrous discovery.' – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 'A treasure: one of the works that inspired my own literary journey.' – Tsitsi Dangarembga 'Aidoo has reaffirmed my faith in the power of the...

Extraordinary. A fascinating and unexpected delight. Coleman shows how women might write if we were free - and how murderous we'd be. Lucy Ellmann Haunting and evocative, this is a timeless portrayal of madness, capturing the terror and loneliness of being untethered from reality. Catherine Cho The only thing to do is to put hammers in the porridge and when...

The frogman was still there, sitting on the corner of her bed, looking towards her... Dorothy is a grieving housewife in the Californian suburbs. Her infant son, unborn child, and dog have all just died; her husband is unfaithful; her only friend is an alcoholic. One day, the radio announces that a green-skinned sea monster has escaped from the Institute...

'A forgotten classic: darkly funny and startlingly contemporary, full of witty one-liners and stop-you-in-your-tracks observations about romance, work, and life.' (Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually). Lord, I have been more chased than chaste . . It feels remarkable to be a deserted wife when one is only twenty-four. New York, 1924. Patricia and Peter are a thoroughly modern married couple....

Those men who are history now; did they feel like this? A 1950s Hampstead pub; a freezing night. Lois can't tear her eyes away from the haunted, restless African man in the corner. Over brandy and stew, she discovers he is in awe of her friend, Panafrica's greatest political writer and fighter. Their meeting inducts this stranger, Udomo, into London's...

'This extraordinary novel had me hooked from start to finish, and left me with so much to brood on that I felt giddy... A fascinating, morally complex, deeply unsettling read.' -Sarah Waters 'A dark and harrowing window on the past: the ending will haunt your dreams. This is a novel that should never be forgotten again.' -Janice Hallett Nothing is...

This lost classic coming-of-age tale is a tragicomic portrait of one young woman's university breakdown and recovery, introduced by Daisy Johnson. I wanted the knack of existing. I did not know the rules ... I wanted to tell them all about the animals, but would they understand? A tea party at an Oxford college. Earnest undergraduates in floral dresses clink...

Pitch-perfect. - Ali Smith So original. - Hilary Mantel Stunning. - Isabel Waidner Her beastly, risky best. - Eley Williams When my species has destroyed itself, we may need yours to start it all again. In London Zoo, Professor Darrylhyde is singing to the apes again. Outside their cage, he watches the two animals, longing to observe the mating ritual...

One of the strangest and angriest novels of the twentieth century. - Lauren Groff An extraordinary, savage novel. - Olivia Laing I love this novel. - Patricia Lockwood She would not feel safe until the beautiful animal was dead. Ralph and Molly are inseparable siblings: united against the stupidity of daily routines, their prim mother and prissy older sisters, the...

Lose yourself in this tumultuous Swedish family saga, introduced by Sarah Moss ('a masterpiece') In these parts, they called her Queen. And she was queen of rags, of sagging mouldering roofs, of nothing. On a bleak, windswept farm on the coast of rural Sweden, where the misty white light is as 'mute as the blind milk of membrane around an...

You don't own yourself any longer. Society owns you. Had it not been for society, you would not be lying here now. Bruno, a young magazine editor, seems to live a charmed life until he discovers a growth on his neck—the first sign of incurable cancer. However, his doctor offers him a unique opportunity: Bruno can choose to be 'frozen...

Join Dostoevsky on his tumultuous honeymoon in this hypnotic cult classic, introduced by Susan Sontag. Why was I reading this book now, in a railway-carriage, beneath a wavering, flickering, electric light-bulb . . Summer, 1867: The newlywed Dostoevsky and his young wife Anna – his one-time secretary – are travelling to the German spa resort of Baden-Baden on honeymoon. Their...

Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic 1967 dystopia. 'Chilling and prescient.' - Andrew Hunter Murray 'Elemental and true.' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave 'Mesmerizing ... Terrifyingly real.' - Sandra Newman 'Like someone from the future screaming to us.' - Salena Godden The day we came up from the shelters...

A Lost Great American Master: meet Jack Kerouac's inspiration in these heart-expanding tales of immigrant life in 1930s USA, introduced by superfan Stephen Fry. JACK KEROUAC: 'I loved him ... He just got me.' ARTHUR MILLER: 'The first to let it all hang out and write like a child in wonderland.' KURT VONNEGUT: 'Still the greatest.' JOSEPH HELLER: 'My primary...

What, what, am I to do with all of this life? Maud Martha Brown is a little girl growing up on the South Side of 1940s Chicago. Amidst the crumbling taverns and overgrown yards, she dreams: of New York, romance, her future. She admires dandelions, learns to drink coffee, falls in love, decorates her kitchenette, visits the Jungly Hovel, guts...