Faber Faber: 1353 books
by Alan Ayckbourn
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
The first volume of Alan Ayckbourn's collected work contains his morality plays from the 1980s. It includes the plays A Chorus of Disapproval, A Small Family Business, Henceforward . . ., and Man of the Moment.
by Alan Ayckbourn
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Well, that's one down, isn't it. Nine to go. Next! Thou shalt not kill. What about that then? Let's have a crack at that one next, shall we?
Jack McCracken: a man of principle in a corrupt world. But not for long. Moments after taking over his father-in-law's business he's approached by a private...
by Alan Ayckbourn
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Alan Ayckbourn's play is about a very ordinary teenager called Lucy. With her father glued to the cowboys on the telly, her mother preoccupied with neighbourly gossip and her brother enclosed in his ear-phones, no one wants to know about her place in the school swimming team. So Lucy revives her childhood...
by Alan Ayckbourn
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
How Ms Poopay Dayseer, a twenty-first century Specialist Sexual Consultant, whilst peddling her 'services' to an elderly hotel room client unexpectedly finds herself running for her life. How her flight through a communicating door brings her face to face with her own past and with Ruella who apparently...
Alan Ayckbourn Plays 2
Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations; Invisible Friends; This is Where We Came In; My Very Own Story; The Champion of Paribanou
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
A treat to read and a joy to perform, this second collection of Alan Ayckbourn's work is a cornucopia of some of his wonderfully inventive children's plays. From the story of the teenage Lucy in Invisible Friends who revives her childhood imaginary friend when things get difficult at home, onto the...
by Alan Ayckbourn
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The central character of Alan Ayckbourn's new play is Susan, a parson's wife, 'one of the most moving and devastating that he has created...'
Robin Thornber reviewing the first production in Scarborough in the Guardian.
Alan Ayckbourn Plays 5
Snake in the Grass; If I Were You; Life and Beth; My Wonderful Day; Life of Riley
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Snake in the Grass
A terrific piece - brilliant, bizarre and yet totally believable . . . In fact, it's more than classic; it's close to the top of its class. Yorkshire Post
If I Were You
A blissfully funny comedy that's also filled with sadness, a devilishly simple theatrical idea that spins...
by Alan Ayckbourn
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Love stories yet to happen, in a future filled with surprises.
Who is the amorous stranger, Titus, who materialises in young Grace's bedroom? Can she believe he is who he says he is? For her parents, Franklin and Martha, does love everlasting still hold true if death is postponed indefinitely? Can...
by Alan Ayckbourn
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Rockfist Slim's enemies have just plunged him into yet another desperate situation when Kevin has to close his detective book and go to sleep. But his own adventure is only just beginning. Fast-moving, fun and full of special effects, Ayckbourn's wonderfully inventive play for children brings alive...
Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 6
Time of My Life; Neighbourhood Watch; Arrivals and Departures; Hero’s Welcome; A Brief History of Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
With an Introduction by the author.
'The prolific master of suburban mayhem has still got his mojo.'
Evening Standard
Time of My Life
'One of Mr. Ayckbourn's most virtuosic experiments in postmodern narrative.'
Wall Street Journal
Neighbourhood Watch
'Ayckbourn's tartly topical,...
The Inspector Pekkala Mysteries
Three Book Collection
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The Inspector Pekkala thrillers take place in the treacherous world of Stalin's Russia.
The main character, Inspector Pekkala, was the chief investigator of Tsar Nicholas. Dubber 'The Emerald Eye', his watchful gaze protected the Romanovs from internal and external threats to their security.
When...
by Sam Eastland
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The year is 1949.
In the bombed-out ruins of Cologne, Hanno Dasch is king.
Director of the most successful black market operation in post-war Germany, Dasch has kept his clients supplied with goods so extravagant and rare that they were almost impossible to find even at the height of Germany's conquests.
Nobody...
by Jean Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
First published in 1989 Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press, and Me is the story of how this small publishing company became a chapter in literary history when, in 1955, the then novice publishers, of which Jean Hartley was one, were entrusted with the manuscript of Larkin's The Less Deceived. The...
by Hugo Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
'A hilarious book of bad times, bedtimes and benders. It is a kind of cool parody of On the Road.' New Statesman
No Particular Place to Go (first published in 1981) relates Hugo Williams's journey across the USA on a three-month poetry-reading tour wherein he also hoped to discover some of...