Head of Classics & Heritage @faberbooks: archive mole curating Faber Editions and publishing biography/cultural history đľď¸ââď¸
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Cannot wait to share this cracker, championed by @monicaheisey: the lost 1929 bestselling sensation of a young divorcĂŠe losing and finding herself in NYC: what a voice - the hedonistic buzz of absinthe cocktails with an emotional hangover that hits HARD! thebookseller.com/rights/fabâŚ
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âMy career was wrapped â now suddenly this magic is happeningâ
In 1978 Joan Barfoot wrote a novel about a woman who abandons her family for a cabin in the Canadian woods. Fifty years on, it is the must-read book of the summer, writes Alice Vincent
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Faber has acquired Joan Barfootâs novel Gaining Ground, originally published by The Womenâs Press in 1978 đ ebx.sh/M4qi4E
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Thank you so, so much for this đ
đâ¤ď¸and I am sorry to be so slow to reply (social media break). I agree - I adore the Noel S recipe
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On top of all his other writing achievements, Vladimir Nabokov wrote the greatest ever recipe for a soft-boiled egg. It's one of the recipes by famous writers in this little volume which I wrote the foreword to. I'll be on @BBCFrontRow tonight talking about it w/ @JLQuoVadis
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Tune in this evening to hear @KitchenBee discuss Sylvia Plathâs Tomato Soup Cake â and Vladimir Nabokovâs recipe for soft-boiled eggs â on @BBCFrontRow tonight.
On top of all his other writing achievements, Vladimir Nabokov wrote the greatest ever recipe for a soft-boiled egg. It's one of the recipes by famous writers in this little volume which I wrote the foreword to. I'll be on @BBCFrontRow tonight talking about it w/ @JLQuoVadis
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And Producer Ciaran Bermingham has made Christopher Isherwoodâs chocolate brownies for our discussion on writersâ favourite recipesâŚ
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Have you ever wondered what your favourite classic authors cooked? Here's your chance to wine and dine with them in a new collection of their recipes, curated from archives, letters and diaries. Out 7 November, with a foreword by @KitchenBee.
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Sylvia Plathâs Tomato Soup Cake comes recommended by @Nigella_Lawson herself đđĽŤ
And a very special #CookbookCorner shout-out to Sylvia Plathâs Tomato Soup Cake: A Compendium of Classic Authorsâ Favourite Recipes, with a charming foreword by @KitchenBee. I couldnât possibly love this book more! You might not want to eat all the recipes (one that transfixed me in horror was Noel Streatfieldâs Filet de BĹuf aux Bananas, which begins âI have to admit that I am normally a very bad cook.â) but youâll certainly want to read them. Absolutely ideal Christmas present!
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And a very special #CookbookCorner shout-out to Sylvia Plathâs Tomato Soup Cake: A Compendium of Classic Authorsâ Favourite Recipes, with a charming foreword by @KitchenBee. I couldnât possibly love this book more! You might not want to eat all the recipes (one that transfixed me in horror was Noel Streatfieldâs Filet de BĹuf aux Bananas, which begins âI have to admit that I am normally a very bad cook.â) but youâll certainly want to read them. Absolutely ideal Christmas present!
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Originally published in 1934 â and fourteenth in our Faber Editions series â The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze is back on 7 November, with a new introduction by superfan Stephen Fry.
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Published as part of @FaberBooks' Editions seriesâspotlighting rediscovered gems from the Faber archive and beyondâUrsula Parrott's #ExWife is a darkly funny, gloriously bohemian portrait of divorce during the roaring twenties đđ
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First published anonymously in 1929, Ursula Parrott's EX-WIFE combines dazzling jazz era ambience and the thrill of new found freedom with timeless themes of loneliness and the double standards of patriarchal society: exyu.short.gy/sUOT8H
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New episode out today!
đ¸ Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott đ¸
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đ Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/62MâŚ
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âAt times, I genuinely feel like it could be a book about a single woman in 2024â
@PINsykes on Ursula Parrottâs Ex-Wife.
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A breathtaking novel by Ursula Parrott, an author who has long deserved more readers irishtimes.com/culture/books⌠via @IrishTimesBooks
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HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to EX-WIFE by Ursula Parrott, a forgotten classic from 1929 reissued by @FaberBooks and expertly introduced by Monica Heisey! đ
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'As relevant, moving, and scathing today as it was the day of its publication.'
â Monica Heisey
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As recommended by Gayle:
âAnother absolute banger in the excellent Faber Editions series of rediscoveries ... Itâs full of dead-pan humour, and so modern I refuse to believe it was first published in 1929. A âHEARTBURN for the Jazz Age!ââŁ
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Our Book of the Week is Ursula ParrottââŁs EX-WIFE, just out from @FaberBooks
âThe novel follows Patricia, a New Yorker who unexpectedly finds herself divorced at 24, as she works out how to live and who to be in her new role of âex-wifeâ
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