Faber and Faber

After years of dissatisfaction at the small price she was paid for her books, AU was staggered in March 1942 at receiving a royalty cheque from Faber for £297. A year later her royalty...

AU kept publishing well into her seventies. A book of essays, Plowmen's Clocks, 1952, was followed by Here's a New Day in October 1956, another collection of reminiscent essays, twelve in number. About a...

LB was already a passionate painter when she turned to writing, infused with enthusiasm by the house she had bought. The manor gave her the inspiration for her books, and she has said that All...

A paperback from Farrar, Straus and Giroux appeared in 1985. SH issued a revised edition of this poem ten years later through Faber and Faber as Sweeney's Flight. In this edition some passages appear...

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.

Faber and Faber 's Grimm Tales, 1996, brings together CAD 's versions with Supple's (often only slightly changed) performance scripts, with Melanie Still 's illustrations, and various kinds of information designed to assist new...

They had begun planning such a book after meeting at a Colonial Conference in summer 1941, at Oxford , where Perham was Reader in Colonial Administration. Lord Lugard supplied an introduction.Faber and Faber

WHA published with Random House in New York a book of criticism entitled The Enchafèd Flood; or, the Romantic Iconography of the Sea; it appeared from Faber in London the following year.

Faber printed the two plays together this year; Samuel French issued an edition of Celebration alone in 2002.

A bomb on the London offices of Faber destroyed (among other things) the typescript of AU 's play Little Grey Rabbit to the Rescue, which had been rejected for the stage by the Theatre Royal, Windsor

WHA again published a critical book, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays, with Random House in New York the year before it appeared from Faber in London.

AS 's Selected Poems was issued in England by Oxford University Press , whose editor Jon Stallworthy had approached her as a step in its campaign to challenge Faber and Faber for supremacy as the...

The play opened in Cambridge because the Royal Court , despite their earlier supportiveness, wanted to test the waters before staging another Jellicoe play in London. AJ credits John Osborne for persuading them to produce...

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...

While an undergraduate at Oxford (from October 1925) he discovered T. S. Eliot , and was for a while obsessively modernist, as he had previously been traditional in the style of Thomas Hardy . He...