The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 122. Black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. With 7 colour photographic illustrations. Jacket design by James Hutcheson.

Using murder as a narrative 'hook,' this is Faber's third published book. Equal parts historical thriller, romance and ghost story, this novella was written after the author attended an archaeological dig at Whitby Abbey. "With impressive subtlety and economy, Faber raises questions about the spiritual redundancy of contemporary life, the way in which the past haunts the present, and the invisible undercurrents lying beneath even the most humdrum human relations." –Evening Standard