For many of us across the UK DIY is something that is seen as a challenge by many of us. However you may be surprised by the number of DIY tasks you can do with little to no practice or experience needed. In this article we will detail different DIY tasks you can try as […]
Read MoreHome Ownership In 2019
Being a homeowner is something millions of us aspire to be when we are older. However as inflation as well as house prices rise and the population grows , more and more of us are finding it hard to find the cash to put down on a house. Much of the previous generations before us […]
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Delicious Cocktails And Desserts With Vintage Whisky
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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William Sansom’s Perfect Horrors
‘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 MoreAnthony Barnett’s ‘Iron Britannia’: Falklands Resurgens
June 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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Dave Rimmer’s ‘Like Punk Never Happened’: such stuff as pop dreams are made on…
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 MoreGerald Kersh: champion yarn-spinner, superior word-crafter, and scholar of human follies
A 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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Simply the Best? Ian Hamilton: poet, biographer, literary godfather – by his friend Clive James
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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The Inspirational William Gerhardie
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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Property Maintenance Glasgow- What Are The Obstacles?
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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