Faber & Faber
Fear in the Sunlight
In Nicola Upson’s fourth Josephine Tey mystery, nothing is what it appears—no surprise with Alfred Hitchcock involved. “Hitch” thinks he’s…
In Times of Fading Light
Eugen Ruge’s newly translated literary novel lets us experience the political upheaval of a German family, interspersed with somewhat sarcastic reflections on…
The Dark Earth and the Light Sky
The enigmatic story of tormented British writer and poet, Edward Thomas, is given a new lease of life in this…
The Dream of the Celt
The opening chapter presents Roger Casement under a sentence of death for treason because of his efforts to recruit Irish…
The Street Sweeper
Adam Zignelik, a history professor at Columbia studying the beginnings of the civil rights movement, is looking for a new…
City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas
Crowley relies heavily on primary sources as he recounts Venice’s economic rise from the time of the Fourth Crusade to…
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
This is a story you might think you know already, also thanks to Alan Moorehead’s two books published fifty years…
The Queen’s Agent
In the time of Elizabeth I, 16th-century England was in turmoil – Protestants against Catholics, wars with Spain, and a…
Gillespie and I
Editors' choice
Harriet Baxter is sitting in her flat in Bloomsbury in 1933 writing her memoir of events that took place in…
On Canaan’s Side
Editors' choice
The narrator of On Canaan’s Side, 89-year-old Lilly Bere, feels herself at the end of her life. She is the…
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