The Book of Strange New Things

Michel Faber Press Reviews

'Michel Faber's second masterpiece, quite different to The Crimson Petal and The White but every bit as luminescent and memorable. It is a portrait of a living, breathing relationship, frayed by distance. It is an enquiry into the mountains faith can move and the mountains faith can't move. It is maniacally gripping. I didn't so much read The Book of Strange New Things as inhabit it'

- DAVID MITCHELL 

'I can't remember being so continually and unfailingly surprised by any book for a long time, and part of the surprise is the tenderness and delicacy with which he shows an emotional relationship developing in one direction while withering in another. I found it completely compelling and believable, and admired it enormously.'

- PHILIP PULLMAN

'Weird and disturbing, like any work of genius, this novel haunted me for the seven nights I spent reading it, and haunts me still. A story of faith that will mesmerize believers and non-believers alike, a story of love in the face of the Apocalypse, a story of humanity set in an alien world -The Book of Strange New Things is desperately beautiful, sad, and unforgettable.'

- DAVID BENIOFF, author of City of Thieves and co-creator HBO series, Game of Thrones

'The Book of Strange New Things is indeed strange: a page-turner which manages to subvert every narrative expectation; a book about the future that forces you to reconsider the role of religion; a book about aliens that is mostly concerned with human love. It left me in a state of wonder and devastation.'

- KEVIN MacDONALD, director of One Day in September, Touching the Void and The Last King of Scotland 

'This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence.'

-Guardian

'Faber writes some of the most ravishingly beautiful prose of any young writer.'

-Scotland on Sunday

'You are unlikely to regret a single hour/day/month spent in Faber's diverting, exuberant and intelligent company.'

-Financial Times

'Faber is the master of the spine-tingling page-turner, while creating a wholly believable universe.'

-Dazed and Confused