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Arthur Ransome and the Crisis in Russia
Posted On: July 1, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
Roland Chambers, author of The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome, discusses the two volumes of Ransome’s Russian journalism brought back into print by Faber Finds.
Read More...Fiona MacCarthy on why she wrote The Simple Life
Posted On: March 22, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
Former Guardian design correspondent and acclaimed biographer Fiona MacCarthy discusses the ambitious social experiment which formed the basis of her debut book, The Simple Life. She explains the drive to set up an experimental artistic community and analyses its success and legacy.
Read More...Alexander Maitland on Speke and the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
Posted On: February 25, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
John Hanning Speke was among the greatest British explorers of the Victorian era, whose greatest achievement was the discovery of the source of the White Nile – the holy grail of Victorian exploration. Following expeditions with Sir Richard Burton, Speke died in mysterious circumstances, at the age of 37.
Read More...Paul Binding on My Cousin the Writer
Posted On: February 19, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
‘Hoorah! A dazzling new novel has appeared featuring a subject hitherto unknown to quality fiction, radio soap opera’, began the review in the Spectator before calling it a ‘masterpiece’. For the Independent, ‘this tale of a radio soap makes post-war Britain sparkle’.
Read More...Andrew Roberts on If Hitler Comes
Posted On: December 18, 2009Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
A classic of ‘imaginary history’, If Hitler Comes was first published only 2 months after the Fall of France, whilst the Battle of Britain was being fought. Now republished for the first time in 68 years and, in the view of historian Andrew Roberts it deserves its place at the head of what has become an emerging literary genre.
Read More...The Panorama of Human Experience, by Juliet Gardiner
Posted On: December 16, 2009Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
Historian Juliet Gardiner explains the huge importance of the eclectic works of Mass Observation to her research and writing.
Read More...Israel Rank Reviewed, by Simon Heffer
Posted On: December 10, 2009Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
Simon Heffer celebrates the re-issue of Israel Rank, the novel on which the film ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets’ was based, by Faber Finds.
Read More...Simon Garfield on Mass Observation
Posted On: September 10, 2009Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
Simon Garfield, author of many books including Our Hidden Lives, We Are At War and Private Battles: How the War Defeated Us – all written in collaboration with Mass Observation – here reveals how every visit to the MO Archive at Sussex University meant the discovery of more new treasures.
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