Under The Skin: Canons

Michel Faber has written nine books. In addition to the Whitbread-shortlisted Under the Skin, he is the author of the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, The Book of Strange New Things, which was shortlisted for the Arthur C, Clarke Award and won the 2015 Saltire Book of the Year, and most recently Undying, his first poetry collection. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the UK.

"The fantastic is so nicely played against the day-to-day that one feels the strangeness of both . . . A remarkable novel." —The New York Times   "Alternately gorgeous and terrifying, lyrical and brutal, Under the Skin compels and teases . . . Satisfying and successful." —Newsday   "A wonderful book - painful, lyrical, frightening, brilliant . . . I couldn't put it down." —Kate Atkinson   "Under the Skin tattoos the memory with an unholy trinity of hitch-hikers, the Scottish highlands and the extraterrestrial meat-packing industry. Wonderful, grisly and beyond bonkers." -—David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas   "This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence." —The Guardian —