Faber

A Certain Justice

Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her career as a criminal lawyer. But just four...

A Closed Book

G Adair

A Mind to Murder

A piercing scream, shattering the evening calm, brings Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from his literary party to the nearby Steen Psychiatric Clinic, where he discovers the body of a woman sprawled on the...

A Taste for Death

Two men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew`s Church, Paddington, their throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic...

All the Colours Of the Town

Amongst Women

An Unsuitable Job for A Woman

Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young...

Asleep

Babylon

Translated from the Russian, this razor-sharp satire on consumer culture, Russian style, follows the irresistible rise of a Moscow advertising copywriter, who specialises in adjusting Western adverts to the Eastern...

Back to Bologna (Aurelio Zen Mystery)

When the corpse of the shady industrialist, who owns the local football team, is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee the...

Bliss (Exp)

This novel, by the author of Oscar and Lucinda, tells the story of a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell. For the first time in his life, Harry Joy sees the world as it really is, and takes...

Bloody White Baron (Roman Ungern)

Twentieth-century history has thrown up a few sinister characters stranger and more cruel than Baron Ungern-Sternberg, but not many, and only he conquered a country with a cavalry army - the last person in history to...

Blood Rain (Aurelio Zen Mystery)

The discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse in a railway wagon marks the beginning of Zen`s most difficult and dangerous case. Set against the backdrop of the 3000-year-old city of Catalina, in the shadow of...

Blue Lantern

A collection of short stories by Russia`s new writers.

Book Of Laughter & Forgetting

Brooklyn Follies *Exp*

Nathan and Tom are an uncle and nephew double-act - one in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career. Matters change when...

Clerks: Screenplay

The debut movie by writer-director Kevin Smith, one of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber`s extensive list of film scripts. Smith is also writer/director of...

Collected Stories

P Carey

Cover Her Face

Critique of Criminal Reason (Exp)

It`s the year 1793, and Hanno Stiffeniis is a magistrate in Prussia. He has been called to investigate a spate of murders which has reduced the city to a state of terror, under the watchful gaze of his mentor, Kant....

Damned Utd

Dark

Days of Atonement (Exp)

Three children are massacred in their beds. The crushed corpse of their mother is discovered in a dockside warehouse. Then the husband, Bruno Gottewald, is dead and buried - killed while out on field manoeuvres. In...

Death of an Expert Witness

When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt`s forensic science laboratory. But nothing could have prepared them for the...

End Games (Aurelio Zen Mystery)

Aurelio Zen is posted to Calabria, where in the heart of a tight-knit traditional community there has been a brutal murder. Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence and uncover the truth. But...