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(0)Michel Faber
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible - his 'book of strange new things'. It is a quest that will challenge Peter's beliefs, his understanding of the limits of the human body and, most of all, his love for Bea.
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The novel centres around a female character, Isserly, who seems to be obsessed with picking up male hitch-hikers, as long as they are muscular and fit. As the story unfolds, the reader comes to realise that Isserly's motives are rather unusual.
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Language
English
Description
How can you say goodbye to the love of your life? In 'Undying' Michel Faber honours the memory of his wife, who died after a six-year battle with cancer. Bright, tragic, candid and true, these poems are an exceptional chronicle of what it means to find the love of your life - and what it is like to have to say goodbye.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
It all starts on the morning the letter D disappears from the language. First, it vanishes from her parents? conversation at breakfast, then from the road signs outside. Soon the local dentist and the neighbour?s Dalmatian are missing, and even the Donkey Derby has been called off. Though she doesn?t know why, Dhikilo is summoned to the home of her old history teacher Professor Dodderfield and his faithful Labrador, Nelly Robinson. And this is where...