<div>These stories go deeper into the Victorian world and lives of the acclaimed international bestseller, The Crimson Petal and the White.Michel Faber&rsquo;s tale of love and lust in the Victorian Era, The Crimson Petal and the White, was hailed as &ldquo;a Dickensian novel for our times.&rdquo; Now a major BBC TV drama, the saga of a prostitute named Sugar and the man who longs to possess her captured hearts and left readers desperate for more (The Guardian, UK).In The Apple, Faber returns to Silver Street to find it still teeming with life, and conjures further tantalizing glimpses of Sugar, Clara, William, Mr. Bodley and many other favorites. For both fans of the novel and newcomers to this rich and historically vivid world, The Apple confirms that &ldquo;Michel Faber is a master of the short-story form&rdquo; (The Times Literary Supplement, UK).&ldquo;This book will be read in a sitting. unless of course you are admitted to Accident and Emergency, having come over queer, huffing with laughter, or dizzy with envy at Faber&rsquo;s talent. Or probably both.&rdquo;&mdash;The Scotsman, UK</div>

The Apple

<div>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</div>

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The Fire Gospel

<div> Michel Faber's short stories are markedly diverse-the voice of each is so distinct that the book reads like an anthology of different writers. But Faber's radically inventive style fastens all fifteen stories into a compelling collection deserving of the high praise it garnered in the United Kingdom. One surreal story, "Fish," projects a futuristic world populated with fish swimming in the air. As sharks hover in abandoned corners and human zealots of the Church of the Armageddon loose their fanaticism on the innocent, it's a mother's full-time job to protect her young daughter. The title story, "Some Rain Must Fall," tells of a substitute schoolteacher called on in a crisis, and as she encourages her pupils to express their feelings, we learn the source of the class's trouble: a devastating act that resonates with contemporary America. As Garth Morris wrote in the Mail on Sunday (London), "these are well-crafted pieces of quiet forlorn intensity in a very real world." </div>

Some Rain Must Fall

<div>Three novellas filled with &ldquo;gallows humor and a sense of real peril,&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;draws his characters with assured comic efficiency&rdquo; (The Guardian), using &ldquo;evocative language&rdquo; to offer up &ldquo;intriguing glimpses of unfamiliar worlds&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times), in these acclaimed novellas. In &ldquo;The Courage Consort,&rdquo; an a cappella vocal ensemble is sequestered in a Belgian ch&acirc;teau to rehearse a monstrously complicated new piece, but competing artistic temperaments and sexual needs create as much discordance as the avant-garde music. In &ldquo;The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps,&rdquo; a lonely woman joins an archaeological dig at Whitby Abbey and unearths a mystery involving a long-hidden murder. And in &ldquo;The Fahrenheit Twins,&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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 &ldquo;marches on, establishing himself as one of the most versatile fiction writers working today&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). &ldquo;Readers will again be immersed in the intense worlds he creates.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

The Courage Consort

<div>A teenage prostitute ascends through the many layers of Victorian London society in this highly acclaimed &ldquo;big, sexy, bravura a novel&rdquo; (Janet Maslin, The New York Times). London, 1870s. At the heart of this panoramic narrative is a young woman&rsquo;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&rsquo;s patronage brings her into the circles of his family and milieu: his wife who barely overcomes chronic hysteria to make her appearances during &ldquo;the Season&rdquo;; 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. &quot;Cocky and brilliant, amused and angry, [Faber] is rightfully earning comparisons to observer extraordinaire Charles Dickens. . . . It&#39;s hopeless to resist&quot; (Entertainment Weekly).</div>

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The Apple

The Fire Gospel

Some Rain Must Fall

The Courage Consort

The Crimson Petal and the White

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