MICHEL FABER

With his elegant prose and perceptive imagination, the bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and...

Theo Griepenkerl is a modest academic with an Olympian ego. When he visits a looted museum in Iraq,

A brilliantly told and beautifully written novel that defies categorisation, Under the Skin introduces Isserley, a woman obsessed with picking up male hitchhikers - so long as they're well-muscled and alone. But why? As the story unfolds and the reason is made explicit, the reader is drawn inexorably into a completely unexpected and increasingly...