Scotland has produced some of the finest music, art, landscapes and…whisky! From the clear lochs of the highlands and islands produced some of the finest whisky in the world. Traditionally whisky is drunk in a short glass straight (on its own) however with a growth of creative and artistic bartenders, a wave of cool new […]
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‘Welcome strangers! Come into my parlour, as a well-known spider said…’ (William Sansom, The Body, 1949) I suspect you will know what I mean when I try to speak of a little literary subgenre we might usefully call ‘the nasty story.’ The type will surely seem clear to you if you have read, just for […]
Read MoreJune 14 2012 is the 30th anniversary of Argentine surrender in the Falklands War of April-June 1982. This month Finds is reissuing Iron Britannia by Anthony Barnett, originally published between covers in 1982 and deriving from writings Barnett first published in the New Left Review. Iron Britannia is a swingeing polemic against the Falklands War, […]
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Rock & Pop are such relatively youthful art-forms that Your Correspondent still finds himself surprised by how swiftly the music of his adolescence (1983-1989) has begun to look a little sepia-toned round the edges. (Presumably one’s parents came to feel the same way about A Hard Day’s Night…) In referring to the ‘look’ over the […]
Read MoreA fine piece by David Collard in the TLS last month made note of the current revived interest in the writings of the remarkable Gerald Kersh, six of whose titles we now offer in Finds. Forty-five years after he left us Kersh still suffers from little better than the ‘large, vague renown’ Orwell famously ascribed […]
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Faber Finds is honoured to have in its care a dazzling selection of the non-fiction works of the late Ian Hamilton (1938-2001). His in Search of J.D. Salinger we re-published back in 2009, but as of now we look forward to bringing back a regular procession of his finest titles across the latter half of […]
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Amid the considerable and deserved publicity for the recent Channel 4 TV adaptation of William Boyd’s Any Human Heart, Boyd himself took the opportunity to restate the importance to the novel’s inspiration of William Gerhardie, who apparently provided the key model for Boyd’s fictional ‘Logan Mountstuart’. As Boyd told the Guardian, ‘Gerhardie published his last […]
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Within Glasgow city there are a large number of properties which vary in age and size from older listed buildings to brand new builds such as student apartments. When It comes to Property Maintenance Glasgow has a number of challenges that buildings in other areas may not necessarily face to the same extent. Especially properties […]
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Learning to drive can be expensive. Many people turn 17 and want to be on the road ASAP. However, the cost of drawn-out lessons can be a killer. Therefore, it’s important to looks for answers and alternatives. We have decided to lay out the costs of learning to drive in an easy and simple format. […]
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Within the gig and event industry professional Event Staffing Solutions are essential to ensure that a gig , festival or event runs smoothly and efficiently. There are a number of different types of event staffing that can assist with events such as Production crews , security , hospitality staff , medical staff , Ticket sellers […]
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