Faber Faber

On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surprisingly young and charming - not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting. The Foundation's guests are soon eating out of...

Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of laughter in between. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What You Have. At forty, Roger Yount is blessed with an expensively groomed wife, two small sons...

Do Hirst and Spooner really know each other, or are they performing an elaborate charade? The ambiguity - and the comedy - intensify with the arrival of Briggs and Fraser. All four inhabit a no-man's-land between time present and time remembered, between reality and imagination. ...

Presents three early works from the Japanese film maker Akira Kurosawa. In 'The Seven Samurai' (1954) the inhabitants of a small Japanese village employ a band of roaming Samurai to defend them. This film was eventually used as a model for 'The Magnificent Seven'. The other screenplays featured include 'Ikiru' (1952) which tells the painful and...

Written in verse, The Golden Gate was Vikram Seth's first novel, before the epic A Suitable Boy. Set in the 1980s in the affluence and sunshine of California's Silicon Valley, it is an exuberant and witty story of twentysomethings looking for love, pleasure and the meaning of life. Beneath the dazzling virtuosity of its surface, it is a book that...

Dear friends, I Love-Love-Love being the classroom hamster in Room 26, Longfellow School. I've learned a lot about reading, writing, maths and making friends...and I've had amazing adventures in and out of my cage, too. But I also love solving puzzles and riddles in the tiny notebook I keep hidden in my cage. They're not always easy but if I wiggle...