Michel Faber est un auteur néerlandais écrivant en langue anglaise. Son œuvre explore souvent de profonds thèmes humains, disséquant les complexités des relations et des normes sociales. Faber excelle dans la création de mondes immersifs et de personnages mémorables qui résonnent auprès des lecteurs. Son style littéraire est célébré pour sa minutie et sa perspicacité.
Missionné par une université canadienne en Irak, Theo Griepenkerl découvre dans les ruines d'un musée les mémoires de Malchus, témoin des derniers jours de Jésus. Il les fait traduire en anglais. A peine publié, ce document rencontre un immense succès et Theo pense profiter des avantages de cette soudaine popularité. Mais il est vite dépassé par le scandale des révélations de Malchus.
An acclaimed collection of stories from the internationally bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White
Find out what became of Sophie.Michel Faber revisits the world of his bestselling novel The Crimson Petal and the White, conjuring tantalising glimpses of its characters, their lives before we first met them and their intriguing futures. You'll be desperate for more by the time you reluctantly re-emerge into the twenty-first century.
Yearning to escape her life of prostitution in 1870s London, Sugar finds her fate entangled in the complicated family life of patron William, an egotistical perfume magnate.
In the author's first collection of short stories, the lead title is a tale of traumatised children and the internal world of the psychologist enlisted to help them. "Fish" reads almost like science fiction, in its story of a mother protecting her child from a school of terrifying fish.
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.
Michel Faber's first novel in twelve years. Soon to be Amazon original series Oasis in 2017
Sian, tired of nightmares in which she meets a grisly end, decides she needs to get out more, so she joins an archaeological dig at Whitby Abbey. What she finds is a mystery involving a long-hidden murder.
"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 our story begins. Set between England and the wintry land of Liminus, a world enslaved by the monstrous Gamp and populated by fearsome, enchanting creatures, D (Tale of Two Worlds) is a mesmerising tale of friendship and bravery in an uncertain world."--Publisher
An enlightening, thoughtful and witty exploration into how and why we listen to music, from the award-winning author Michel Faber
