Faber Editions – Rediscovered Gems

Faber Editions spotlights rediscovered gems from their archive and beyond, resurrecting radical literary voices who speak to our present, championed by world-famous authors. Rooted in history, these are books for the future.

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Hackenfeller’s Ape (Faber Editions)

Brigid Brophy

When my species has destroyed itself, we may need yours to start it all again.

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The Mountain Lion (Faber Editions)

Jean Stafford

She would not feel safe until the beautiful animal was dead.

$22.99

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Termush (Faber Editions)

Sven Holm, Sylvia Clayton (trans.)

Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic 1967 dystopia ...

$26.99

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The Shutter of Snow (Faber Editions)

Emily Holmes Coleman

Introduced by Claire-Louise Bennett, experience one new mother’s psychological journey in this lost 1930 foremother of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.

$24.99

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A Wreath for Udomo (Faber Editions)

Peter Abrahams

Introduced by Petina Gappah, a lost classic by a radical black South African author: as exiled African activists in post-war London plot to revolutionise their native countries, idealism and tragedy…

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The Glass Pearls (Faber Editions)

Emeric Pressburger

This thrilling tale of an ex-Nazi surgeon hiding in plain sight in 1960s London by the celebrated filmmaker is a forgotten feat of Hitchcockian noir, introduced by Anthony Quinn (author…

$24.99

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Maud Martha (Faber Editions)

Gwendolyn Brooks

Introduced by Margo Jefferson, this forgotten novel by the Pulitzer-winning poet is a miniature wonder, chronicling one woman’s coming-of-age in 1940s Chicago.

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They (Faber Editions)

Kay Dick

Introduced by Carmen Maria Machado, the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish through-a-glass-darkly Britain, they are coming closer…

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Mrs Caliban (Faber Editions)

Rachel Ingalls, Irenosen Okojie

The amphibious cult classic: when a lonely suburban housewife falls in love with a frogman called Larry, their lives will never be the same.

$24.99

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Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions)

Wilson Harris

A radical landmark in Caribbean literature, reissued with a new foreword by Jamaica Kincaid to mark Wilson Harris’ centenary: a visionary masterpiece tracing the dreamlike voyage of a riverboat crew…

$22.99

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