Every year on Leila's birthday Shalini kneels by the wall with a little yellow spade and scoops dry earth to make a pit for two candles.

Consequently, hundreds of thousands had fled from the Pale of Settlement and the pogroms in the East and many found sanctuary in the crowded tenements of the old Jewish quarter, Leopoldstadt. Tom Stoppard's new play is a passionate drama of love and endurance, an intimate play with an epic sweep, the story of a family who made good.

'One of Britain's greatest living playwrights to provide his most personal play yet.' The Times 'The news that Tom Stoppard has written a new drama ranks as top-end seismic activity.' Daily Telegraph

The must-read music book of the year: Bob Stanley's prequel to Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book that brings together all genres to tell the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties.

Let's Do It is the definitive history of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. The story begins in 1898 with the first 78 record - the first recorded pop music and mass produced sheet music.

This is a memoir about hope - hope in others, hope in systems, and hope for the future. I've never quite known where to begin when someone asks me what I've been up to.

The second volume of this landmark edition of Sylvia Plath's correspondence.

The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. The Liberty Faber Poetry Diary 2024 is a celebration of this remarkable Faber list.