Categorie: Faber & Faber
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Grief is the Thing with Feathers
Author: Max Porter Publisher: Faber & Faber Publishing year: 2015 Pages: 118 Coverdesign: Faber Cover illustration: Eleanor Crow ISBN: 978-0571327232 https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571383795-grief-is-the-thing-with-feathers/ Review: Grief personified When a husband and his two sons loose their wife/mother, grief becomes a huge part of their life. Even though the boys seem to be able to cope with it a…
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The Death of Francis Bacon
Author: Max Porter Publisher: Faber & Faber Publishing year: 2021 Pages: 74 Cover design: Faber ISBN: 978-0571366514 https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571370702-the-death-of-francis-bacon/ Review: A Painted Veil The final days of the painter Francis Bacon ((1909-1992) are portrayed in this novella by Max Porter, in seven fictitious paintings. Through these seven paintings we see through the eyes of the painter…
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So late in the Day
Author: Claire Keegan Publisher: Faber Books Publishing year: Pages: 47 Coverdesign: Faber Cover art: Study No. 5 by Ciara Roche ISBN: 978-0571382019 https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571382019-so-late-in-the-day/ Review: Cathal has another uneventful Friday, July 29th, and he’s about to step into a bus, towards the long weekend. While facing the weekend and during the trip on the bus and…
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Lord of the Flies
Author: William Golding Illustrations and adptation: Aimée De Jongh Publisher: Faber Books (in Dutch: Scratchbooks) Publishing year: 2024 Pages: 344 ISBN: 978-0571374250 https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571374250-lord-of-the-flies-the-graphic-novel/ (English version) https://scratch-books.com/portfolio-item/lord-of-the-flies/ (Nederlandse versie) Review: I am ashamed to say I haven’t read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies yet, apart from now this wonderful graphic novel and I have seen…
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Foster
Author: Claire Keegan Publisher: Faber & Faber (Faber Books) Publishing Year: 2010 Pages: 90 Cover: design by Faber (Emma Cownie) ISBN: 978-0571379149 https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571379149-foster/ Review: A father drops his child off at some relatives, the Kinsellas. The girl is suddenly thrown into a bath of warmth and love, such as she has never truly known at…
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Small Things like these
Author: Claire Keegan Publisher: Faber & Faber (Faber Books) Publishing year: 2021 Pages: 116 Cover: Faber (Hunters in the Snow, Pieter Breugel the Elder, 1565) ISBN: 978-0571368709 https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571368709-small-things-like-these/ Review: 1985, in a small Irish town where everybody knows everybody. Bill Furlong is a coal and timber merchant and it’s a very busy period as Christmas…
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The Gentleman from Peru
Author: André Aciman Publisher: Faber Books Publishing year: 2024 Number of pages: 169 Original title: L’ultima estate (2021) Coverdesign: Kerry Wheeler ISBN: 978-0571385119 https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571385119-the-gentleman-from-peru/ Review: Warning: do not expect another ‘Call me by your Name’! As a group of American friends are stranded on the Amalfi Coast in Italy, they enjoy sun, drinks and the…
