Books published by Faber & Faber

Bringing together more than one hundred poems from the many thousands submitted to the Forward Prizes for Poetry in the first decade of the 21st century, this book offers an introduction to a wide range of contemporary poetry.

Holloway - a hollow way, a sunken path. In July 2005, Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin - author of Wildwood - travelled to explore the holloways of South Dorset's sandstone. Six years later, after Roger Deakin's early death, Robert Macfarlane returned to the holloway with the artist Stanley Donwood and writer Dan Richards.

This was the first book to deal with both British and German propaganda during the Second World War, both as regards to what was said at home and what was said to the enemy.

Gunby Goater, an up-and-coming reporter, 'hot or at any rate warmish' from the provinces, arrives in Fleet Street, keen for a taste of the fabulous sixties. His assignment at the deathbed of the Last Great Englishman leads him into a series of adventures with the Clique, who alternately humiliate and delight him.

When the last and the most significant of the Jacobite uprisings, that of 1745, ended in disaster Prince Henry, the younger brother of Bonnie Prince Charlie, was in his early twenties. Almost at once he exasperated his brother and antagonized his followers by accepting a cardinal's hat.

Rose feels as if she's been drifting along in a strange, numb dream ever since her mother's death. Suddenly, however, her life is rocked by changes - for good and bad.

It explains more than we could have hoped how the miracle was wrought.' John Barber, Daily Telegraph'The process of theatrical creation comes across with rare force, expressed in language - Mr Selbourne writes very well - of rare beauty.' Michael Coveney, Plays and Players

'It was not until the middle of October, with dusk curtaining the hills, that Emma at last arrived at the house she had so oddly inherited.' So begins the story of a divorcee, approaching middle-age who returns to her childhood home in the Welsh mountains, where an old house has been bequeathed to her by the village doctor.

Mrs. Barnard's aspirations for her daughter Mady, the grief felt by Mrs. Peters, the rector's wife, over her son's death in Burma and Doris Weldon's frustration with her children tell of day-to-day life in the village.

The 1966 staging in Paris of Jean Genet's The Screens by the Jean-Louis Barrault-Madeleine Renaud Company was highly controversial. This volume contains two essays by Genet, originally published in the French periodical Un Tel, giving his striking and highly personal views on life and art.

Foot'Ralph Bennett's mastery of narrative and clarity of analysis are such that we can safely signal a new benchmark in intelligence books.' David Linton'Bennett has done more than anyone else to throw light on the impact of Ultra on command decisions.

The Auction Sale relates a sensitive and subtle evocation of country life in the late 1930s. First published in 1949, Lord David Cecil described the novel as 'an admirably shaped, delicately finished work of art, reflecting a deeply interesting vision of human life.'

As the review in the Economist said, ' . Jones, author of Most Secret War'A new prime source of undoubted value.' Peter Calvooressi, The Times'Ultra in the West is a professional's rewriting of military history .

It is for that reason Hugh Kingsmill hit upon the idea of assembling this alternative anthology: Samuel Johnson as recalled diversely by those including Johnson himself, Mrs Piozzi, Sir John Hawkins, Anna Seward (not flattering) and Miss Reynolds, Sir Joshua's sister.

Working as a news photographer in 1930s Berlin, Walther Klinger becomes, by a vicious twist of fate, a society photographer for the new aristocracy of the Nazi party.

Reassesses Worktown (Bolton) and other locations twenty years after the original Mass Observation research had been carried out.

Offers an introduction which leads to a survey - a panorama - of a wide theme.

Henry Purcell has long been acknowledged as one of England's greatest composers. This book describes his position in British musical history, music in London during his lifetime, his Italian connections and his contemporaries. It includes a bibliography that details research undertaken on various aspects of Purcell's life and career.

Published monthly in Bloomsbury, "Horizon" was a cultural beacon during the dark days of the Second World War. This book offers an account of literary life in a fascinating period of history, skilfully recreating the world of "Horizon", and bringing to life the colourful individuals who made the magazine a legend in its time.

To quote William Gerhardie's own synopsis this work is 'a novel about two men treading the donkey-round of paradise deferred, their literary friendship strained to breaking-point by rivalry in love'.

The music of Gerald Finzi, whose popularity has enjoyed a great resurgence, is rooted in the tradition of Elgar, Parry, Vaughan Williams and those composers for whom song writing was a principal means of expression. This biography reveals Finzi as a more complex and engaged figure than he is often given credit for.

Stepan, a Russian aristocrat by birth and lorry driver by trade, has long believed his only child to be dead.

For twenty years he lives this illusion but today a plot is being hatched to shock him out of this 'madness' and into the twenty-first century.Pirandello's Henry IV, in Tom Stoppard's new version, premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in May 2004.

No-one else can touch us' - except, that is, the horrific past of a city where human fat once ran in the gutters, the city ablaze. Homesick, but fame-crazed, a group of Liverpudlian lads are about to become part of Hamburg's history forever. Presence premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in April 2001.

The first volume of Sean O'Casey's plays includes Juno and the Paycock, Within the Gates, Red Roses for Me and Cock-a-Doodle Dandy, and is introduced by Seamus Heaney. 'From the perspective of the 1990s O'Casey stands out as Ireland's greatest playwright of the century.

A collection of Aldous Huxley's letters, essays from magazines, and broadcasts between the wars. They show how his contempt for mass society and his belief in the existence of a cultural elite gave way to a liberal humanism and a concern for the well-being of ordinary people.

A collection of Vargas Llosa's plays exploring the central theme of his work - how and why stories come into being and the relationship between fact and fiction. Vargas Llosa is the author of the novels "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" and "The War of the End of the World".

When DI Jack Carrigan and DS Geneva Miller arrive at the scene they discover eleven bodies, yet there were only supposed to be ten nuns in residence. It's eleven days before Christmas, and despite their superiors wanting the case solved before the holidays, Carrigan and Miller start to suspect that the nuns were not who they were made out to be.

Over six tangled weeks their lives become knotted together in this tender and funny play. Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation won a New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the 2010 Obie Award for Best New American Play. It was voted one of the top ten plays of 2009 by the New York Times, Time Out and the New Yorker.