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La lettera D sparisce improvvisamente una mattina, mentre Dhikilo sta facendo colazione con i suoi genitori. Svanisce prima dalla conversazione a tavola, poi dai cartelli stradali lungo la via per la scuola, e infine dalle chiacchiere con i compagni. Ben presto anche il dentista del paese e il dalmata del vicino scompaiono nel nulla, e persino l'annuale derby degli asini viene annullato. Senza sapere il perché, Dhikilo viene convocata a casa del suo vecchio insegnante di storia, il professor Dodderfield, che è cieco e vive solo, in compagnia del fedele cane guida Nelly Robinson. E da qui ha inizio l'avventura. Ambientato tra l'Inghilterra e Liminus, una terra polare soggiogata dal mostruoso Gamp e popolata da creature incantevoli e spaventose, D (Una storia di due mondi) è un romanzo dickensiano dei nostri giorni che celebra l'amicizia e il coraggio di credere nei propri desideri e fantasie. “Magnifico. Una storia senza tempo che resterà a lungo.” Neil Gaiman “La scrittura di Faber è così straordinaria da convincerci che, a volte, le vecchie storie sono le migliori.” The Guardian “Questo romanzo è una meravigliosa conferma del talento narrativo di Michel Faber e del fascino e calore della sua scrittura.” The Daily Telegraph

A monumental, genre-defying novel that David Mitchell calls'Michel Faber's second masterpiece,'The Book of Strange New Things is a masterwork from a writer in full command of his many talents. It begins with Peter, a devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Bea. Peter becomes immersed in the mysteries of an astonishing new environment, overseen by an enigmatic corporation known only as USIC. His work introduces him to a seemingly friendly native population struggling with a dangerous illness and hungry for Peter's teachings—his Bible is their “book of strange new things.” But Peter is rattled when Bea's letters from home become increasingly desperate: typhoons and earthquakes are devastating whole countries, and governments are crumbling. Bea's faith, once the guiding light of their lives, begins to falter. Suddenly, a separation measured by an otherworldly distance, and defined both by one newly discovered world and another in a state of collapse, is threatened by an ever-widening gulf that is much less quantifiable. While Peter is reconciling the needs of his congregation with the desires of his strange employer, Bea is struggling for survival. Their trials lay bare a profound meditation on faith, love tested beyond endurance, and our responsibility to those closest to us. Marked by the same bravura storytelling and precise language that made The Crimson Petal and the White such an international success, The Book of Strange New Things is extraordinary, mesmerizing, and replete with emotional complexity and genuine pathos.

From the bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White, “a satire of the modern entertainment industry... hilariously entertaining” (The Sunday Telegraph).Michel Faber's The Fire Gospel is a wickedly funny, acid-tongued, media-savvy picaresque that delves into our sensationalist culture. Theo Griepenkerl, a Canadian linguistics scholar, is sent to Iraq in search of artifacts that have survived the destruction and looting of the war. While visiting a museum in Mosul, he finds nine papyrus scrolls tucked in the belly of a bas-relief sculpture: they have been perfectly preserved for more than two thousand years. After smuggling them out of Iraq and translating them from Aramaic, Theo realizes the extent of his career-making find, for he is in possession of the Fifth Gospel, and it offers a shocking and incomparable eyewitness account of Christ's crucifixion and last days on Earth. A hugely entertaining, and by turns shocking story, The Fire Gospel is a smart, stylish, and suspenseful novel.“Most insightful when describing fatuous superficiality... The Fire Gospel coasts cleverly and blithely.”—The New York Times“The satire is so entertaining, the pace so sharp, the writing so witty... The Fire Gospel can be read easily in one sitting. It's effortless to consume, but with plenty of bite.”—The Observer“A fun and tender retelling of the Prometheus myth... there's a tenderness about humankind and our inarticulate, profound need to believe that shines through Faber's tale.”—The Plain Dealer“Faber writes with humor, intelligence, and a keen eye for our modern culture. Readers will laugh at the book and maybe a little at themselves.”—Booklist

Three novellas filled with “gallows humor and a sense of real peril,” by the acclaimed author of The Book of Strange New Things (The New York Times). The bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White “draws his characters with assured comic efficiency” (The Guardian), using “evocative language” to offer up “intriguing glimpses of unfamiliar worlds” (Los Angeles Times), in these acclaimed novellas. In “The Courage Consort,” an a cappella vocal ensemble is sequestered in a Belgian château to rehearse a monstrously complicated new piece, but competing artistic temperaments and sexual needs create as much discordance as the avant-garde music. In “The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps,” a lonely woman joins an archaeological dig at Whitby Abbey and unearths a mystery involving a long-hidden murder. And in “The Fahrenheit Twins,” strange children, identical in all but gender, are left alone at the icy zenith of the world by their anthropologist parents to create their own ritual civilization. From a wildly inventive author whose novel The Book of Strange New Things was named one of 2014's best reads by everyone from the New Yorker to io9, The Courage Consort is an eclectic collection of well-told tales, in which Michel Faber “marches on, establishing himself as one of the most versatile fiction writers working today” (Kirkus Reviews). “Readers will again be immersed in the intense worlds he creates.” —Publishers Weekly

A teenage prostitute ascends through the many layers of Victorian London society in this highly acclaimed “big, sexy, bravura a novel” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times). London, 1870s. At the heart of this panoramic narrative is a young woman's struggle to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. Sugar, a nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, yearns for a better life. Her ascent through the strata of Victorian society begins with the egotistical perfume magnate William Rackham. Infatuated with Sugar, William's patronage brings her into the circles of his family and milieu: his wife who barely overcomes chronic hysteria to make her appearances during “the Season”; his mysteriously hidden-away daughter, left to the care of minions; his pious brother, foiled in his devotional calling by his lust for the Widow Fox; as well as preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all stripes and persuasions. Twenty years in its conception, research, and writing, The Crimson Petal and the White is teeming with life, rich in texture and incident, with breathtakingly real characters.'Cocky and brilliant, amused and angry, [Faber] is rightfully earning comparisons to observer extraordinaire Charles Dickens.... It's hopeless to resist'(Entertainment Weekly).