Michel Faber

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber is a 2002 novel set in Victorian-era England. The title is from an 1847 poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson entitled 'Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal', the opening line of which is 'Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white'.

Theo Griepenkerl, a Canadian linguistics scholar, is sent to Iraq in search of artifacts that have survived the destruction and looting of the war. While visiting a museum in Mosul, he finds nine papyrus scrolls tucked in the belly of a bas-relief sculpture: they have been perfectly preserved for more than two …

Under the Skin is a 2000 surrealist novel by Michel Faber. Set in northern Scotland, it traces an extraterrestrial who, manifesting in human form, drives around the Scottish countryside picking up male hitchhikers whom she drugs and delivers to her home planet. The novel, which was Faber's debut, was shortlisted for …