Michel Faber

'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world...' 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. The Book of Strange New Things is a wildly original tale of adventure, faith and the ties that might hold two people together when they are worlds apart. This momentous novel, Faber's first since The Crimson Petal and the White, sees him at his expectation-defying best.

Isserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and alone?

"Una macchina percorre piu volte al giorno una statale deserta nelle Highlands scozzesi. Alla guida c'e una donna, Isserley. Sembra che stia cercando qualcosa. All'improvviso nota sul ciglio della strada un giovane robusto seduto sul suo zaino, gli fa cenno di salire a bordo. Il ragazzo la ringrazia del passaggio, non ha motivo di diffidare di una bella ragazza dall'apparenza inoffensiva. La fattoria in cui Isserley lo conduce e una base sotterranea, un labirinto di cucine, camere frigorifere e gabbie in cui altre prede attendono di essere macellate. Isserley appartiene a un'altra specie, che si definisce umana per distinguersi da quella dei ""vodsel"", la razza inferiore che riempie le strade e le citta e che il suo popolo usa come cibo. I Vodsel siamo noi. "

Londra 1875. Dall'esile candela della sua stanza nel bordello della terribileMrs Castaway, Sugar, una prostituta di diciannove anni, la piu desiderata incitta, cerca la via per sottrarre il proprio corpo e l'anima al fango dellestrade. Dai vicoli luridi e malfamati Michel Faber ci guida, seguendo lascalata di Sugar, fino allo splendore delle classi alte della societavittoriana, dove violiamo l'intimita di personaggi terribili e fragili,comunque indimenticabili. Come Rackam, il giovane erede di una grande fortunache diverra l'amante di Sugar, e sua moglie, l'angelica e infelice Agnes.

Hailed as "original and unsettling, an "Animal Farm" for the new century" ("The Wall Street Journal"), this first novel introduces Isserley, a female driver who picks up hitchhikers with big muscles and listens for clues about who might miss them if they should disappear. Hailed as "original and unsettling, an Animal Farm for the new century" (The Wall Street Journal), this first novel lingers long after the last page has been turned. Described as a "fascinating psychological thriller" (The Baltimore Sun), this entrancing novel introduces Isserley, a female driver who picks up hitchhikers with big muscles. She, herself, is tiny-like a kid peering up over the steering wheel. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she listens to her hitchhikers as they open up to her, revealing clues about who might miss them if they should disappear. At once humane and horrifying, Under the Skin takes us on a heart-thumping ride through dangerous territory-our own moral instincts and the boundaries of compassion. A grotesque and comical allegory, a surreal representation of contemporary society run amok, Under the Skin has been internationally received as the arrival of an exciting talent, rich and assured.

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 and candid, 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. All I can do, in what remains of my brief time, is mention, to whoever cares to listen, that a woman once existed, who was kind and beautiful and brave, and I will not forget how the world was altered, beyond recognition, when we met.

Enjoy more sugar...Take a saunter down Silver Street once more for an early Christmas encounter with the determined heroine of "The Crimson Petal and the White", and find out more of what became of her. In this collection, Michel Faber revisits the world of his bestselling novel, briefly opening doors onto the lives of its characters to give us tantalising glimpses of where they sprang from and what happened to them.

Tired of nightmares in which she meets a grisly end, Sian decides she needs to get out more, so she joins an archeological dig at Whitby Abbey. What she finds is a mystery involving a long-hidden murder, a man with big hands and a fragile manuscript in a bottle. Faber's dazzling novella takes us up the 199 steps in Whitby that link the 21st century with the ruins of the past. Equal and indissoluble parts thriller, romance, historical/ghost story and meditation on the nature of sincerity, this is an ingenious literary page-turner. The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps, like Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, deploys a masterful sense of ambiguity, works on many levels and, as always with Faber's writing, is elegant, thought-provoking, distinctive and compelling.

Gripping from the first page, this immense novel is an intoxicating and deeply satisfying read. This is Faber's most ambitious fictional creation yet and affirms his position as one of the most talented writers working in Britain today. Sugar, an alluring, 19-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs Castaway, yearns for a better life. Her ascent through the strata of 1870s London society offers us intimacy with a host of loveable, maddening and superbly realised characters. But at the heart, though, of this panoramic, multi-layered narrative is the compelling struggle of a young woman to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. The Crimson Petal and the White is a big, juicy, must-read of a novel that will delight, enthrall, provoke and entertain young and old, male and female.

lsserley es una mujer menuda con pechos grandes y perfectos, lleva gafas de cristales muy gruesos y escotes profundos que hacen olvidar sus ojos, y conduce su coche por carreteras solitarias de Escocia recogiendo autoestopistas. Pero al Toyota rojo de lsserley no sube cualquiera. Ella solo se detiene ante los hombres. Cuidadosamente elegidos. Siempre fornidos, saludables y solitarios que puedan desaparecer sin que su ausencia cause demasiado ruido.Pero lsserley no es simplemente una depredadora sexual. El primer enigma que nos plantea esta novela sorprendente es el de su cuerpo. Ese cuerpo lleno de cicatrices, torturado por los dolores de operaciones de cirugia plastica, con gafas que oscurecen y magnifican a la vez sus ojos. Y el segundo, el de su deseo. ¿Que hace con esos hombres que selecciona con tanto cuidado, esos jovenes vigorosos, saludables, seducidos por sus pechos? Y asi, de misterio en misterio, el lector comienza a sospechar que lsserley puede ser la puerta de entrada a un universo mucho mas terrorifico de lo que habia imaginado...Michel Faber es un narrador de una habilidad maquiavelica que, de la mano de su protagonista, un monstruo de la mejor especie, la especie de los que poseen un alma atormentada, nos seduce con una fabula cruel sobre el f