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.
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.
A spine-chilling new collection of short horror stories from bestselling authors including Lucy Rose, Emilia Hart and Bridget Collins
288pages
11 heures de lecture
'Outstandingly weird and memorable' GUARDIAN 'Deliciously creepy' NEW SCIENTIST Fear never dies... Featuring stories from Susan Barker, J K Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enríquez, Michel Faber, Lewis Hancox, Emilia Hart, Ainslie Hogarth, Robert Lautner, Adorah Nworah, Irenosen Okojie, Lucy Rose, Lionel Shriver, James Smythe, Lavie Tidhar, Francine Toon, Evie Wyld and Louisa Young. These stories from eighteen master storytellers will curdle your blood, haunt your dreams and redefine terror. From a hungry young woman who is not what she seems, to a boy who has taken his mother's advice a little too seriously; from disfigured girls willing to pay any price to fit in, to an immigrant who cannot escape his tormentor in his new home country; from a new home with a sinister secret, to the discovery that a long-dead parent's corpse is perfectly preserved decades later; this collection plumbs the depths of the psyche and dredges up some very modern horrors. READERS ARE OBSESSED 'Stunning' 'Well-plotted and horrifying' 'Visceral, creepy, gory... stays in your head long after reading them' 'It's so satisfying to turn to the next story in an anthology like this and be pretty confident it's going to be a banger... bravo' 'Spine-tingling... I was gripped and it kept me up at night as I just wanted to read one more story' 'Often unusual, always unique... a wildly eclectic cornucopia of horror'
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