The Book of Strange New Things - Hardcover

, 585 pages, title page signed "Michel Faber" in black ballpoint,

"Michel Faber's second masterpiece, quite different to The Crimson Petal and The White but every bit as luminescent and memorable. It is a portrait of a living, breathing relationship, frayed by distance. It is an enquiry into the mountains faith can move and the mountains faith can't move. It is maniacally gripping" (DAVID MITCHELL)

"Magnificently bold and addictive . . . a book quite unlike any other I've read" (Edmund Gordon Sunday Times)

"As gripping as any thriller . . . A work of originality and insight" (Andrew Billen The Times)

"There are some novels that come along, when writing a review seems superfluous and all one wants to do is to grab someone by the shoulders and say: "Look, just read the damn thing!". This is one of them . . . In this thoughtful, deeply moving page-turner, Faber excels himself" (Scotsman)

"I can't remember being so continually and unfailingly surprised by any book for a long time. I found it completely compelling and believable, and admired it enormously" (PHILIP PULLMAN)

"Michel Faber is a truly gifted writer, an addictive storyteller with an nuanced command of language. One of the best things I have read this year" (Literary Review)

"Weird and disturbing, like any work of genius, this novel haunted me for the seven nights I spent reading it, and haunts me still. A story of faith that will mesmerize believers and non-believers alike, a story of love in the face of the Apocalypse, a story of humanity set in an alien world -The Book of Strange New Things is desperately beautiful, sad, and unforgettable." (DAVID BENIOFF, author of City of Thieves and co-creator HBO series, Game of Thrones)

"The very notion of what it means to be human is grappled with in unusually direct terms . . . richly suggestive" (Hannah McGill Independent)

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Highly imaginative, unusual and thought-provoking

" (Katherine Whitbourn Daily Mail)

"At the heart of The Book of Strange New Things is one question: Whom - or what - do you love, and what are you willing to do for that love (or not willing)? The result is a novel of marvel and wonderment with a narrative engine like a locomotive" (YANN MARTEL)