Kolymsky Heights: Lionel Davidson
Kolymsky Heights. A Siberian permafrost hell lost in endless nights, the perfect setting for an underground Russian research station. It's a place so secret it doesn't officially exist; once there, the scientists are forbidden to leave. But one scientist is desperate to get a message to the outside world. So desperate, he sends a plea across the wildness to the West in order to summon the one man alive capable of achieving the impossible ...
Fast-moving, exhilarating and starring a highly unusual hero, Kolymsky Heights is an unforgettable thriller with a spectacular denouement.
'A breathless story of fear and courage.' Daily Telegraph More
The Secret River: C. H. B. Kitchin
The Secret River spans the two and a half decades that opened in the grip of the ‘bright young things’ of the mid-twenties and closed in the blanket embrace of ... More
Already Walks To-morrow: A.G. Street
‘No one who cares at all about England can afford to miss reading Already Walks Tomorrow.’ Sunday Times‘It must have been a most satisfying book to write. A. G. Street’s ... More
The Custom House: Francis King
The Custom House was first published in 1961 and has at its heart a savage and seemingly inexplicable murder. Set in post-war Japan it explores the complexities of life and ... More
A Domestic Animal: Francis King
Like Elaine Feinstein's A Circle, Francis King's A Domestic Animal is another acclaimed novel from 1970 that was never considered for the Booker Prize. Now, with the announcement of the 'lost' Booker Prize, King's novel is in the news again. Like A Circle, it was a painful book for the author to write, as Francis King explains. More
The Flaxborough Crab: Colin Watson
The Flaxborough Crab was first published in 1969, although its title in the US was Just What the Doctor Ordered, and is the sixth novel in the Flaxborough series. H. ... More
Castle Corner: Joyce Cary
Joyce Cary was nothing if not an ambitious novelist. In his prefatory essay he tells us 'Castle Corner was to have been the beginning of a vast work in three ... More
Charley is My Darling: Joyce Cary
The protagonist, Charley Brown, is a lively, inventive boy who, as a stranger (an evacuee in the early days of the Second World War), is beset by constant challenges, hostility ... More
My Friend Judas: Andrew Sinclair
The scene is Cambridge in the early 1960s. Ben Birt, an intellectual Brando from a grammar school, sees the University through proud, bawdy and anarchic eyes. Classless but deeply class-conscious. ... More
Innocents: A. L. Barker
Faber Finds is proud to be reissuing the entire oeuvre of the much-admired A. L. Barker - thirteen novels and six volumes of short stories, including the first ever Somerset Maugham Prize winner, Innocents. More
A Case Examined: A. L. Barker
In a parish of wealthy women, Rose Antrobus forms a committee to decide who should benefit from a small bequest left to charity. Secretly she hopes the money will go ... More
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