Faber and Faber

This novel met with the threat of a libel action (about which Charles Monteith of Faber and Faber was stoical) from a woman whom JOF described in hyperbolic terms as having a termite-infested bed. O'Faolain...

Her father, Sean O'Faolain , had included in his Collected Stories, 1983, a piece whose title reproduces the Yeats phrase exactly: No Country for Old Men.JOF got the idea for this novel...

Lee Brackstone, who bought the manuscript of this book for Faber and Faber , alerted its potential readership, pre-publication, to expect the masterpiece of O'Brien's career, a book which reminds us why she is...

KN published with Faber and Faber her fourth and final novel, An Elderly Retired Man, which is narrated in the first person by its stunningly self-centred protagonist.

The first novel which IM offered to a publisher was read by T. S. Eliot for Faber and Faber ; he rejected it, perhaps on grounds of the wartime paper shortage.

JM embarked on a long and fruitful publishing relationship with Faber and Faber , with a book entitled Coast to Coast, about the USA.

HM published A Fly in Amber: Being an Extravagant Biography of the Romantic Antiquary Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. It was published through Faber and Faber , who obtained it through HM 's old friend T. S. Eliot .

T. S. Eliot , an early and appreciative reader of this book, invited the author to meet him over tea at his Faber and Faber office in Russell Square. Mackworth, however, felt intimidated by...

This was Levy's first book to face the difficult environment for literary novels produced by the rise of Amazon and the end of regulation for book prices. Less commercial, more cerebral fiction was no longer...

BL 's More Light, a play for children of secondary-school age commissioned by the Education Department of the Royal National Theatre , was published by Faber and Faber in New Connections: New Plays for Young People.

PL 's second novel, A Girl in Winter, appeared, having been placed by his agent, A. P. Watt , with Faber and Faber . It sold 5,000 copies in the year of its publication...

PL 's The Whitsun Weddings, his first poetry publication with Faber and Faber , resulted from an invitation from Charles Monteith of that company, issued years earlier after he had read Church Going in The Spectator.

The book went through many stages and revisions before publication: the first draft had been finished in February 1944. A related draft and stories survive, but no complete manuscript. Larkin wrote that he was...

PL had already begun to produce some of the poems that were later to make him known (including Wedding Wind, written in 1946). Towards the end of 1947 he typed up for Faber and Faber

After seventeen years of writing and revising, JJ 's Finnegans Wake was published in its entirety in London by Faber and Faber and in New York by Viking Press .