Faber Finds was launched in May 2008 with the aim of rescuing and reissuing good books that would otherwise languish. It is often the case that books go out of print not because they are not selling but because they are not selling enough to be kept in print conventionally. Faber Finds has addressed this by using print-on-demand.

Faber Finds: Editor's Picks

This was Elaine Feinstein's first novel, published in 1970. The year is significant. No novel published in that year was considered for the Booker Prize. Forty years on amends are being made. A longlist of 22 titles has been drawn up. Quite rightly The Circle appears on it.

Francis King has just had his 50th book published. There have been few more consistently excellent novelists in the last half-century. Published in 1970, owing to a change in the rules it wasn't considered for that year's Booker Prize. Forty years on it is appearing on a longlist of the 22 best novels published that year.

A brave book with a remarkable history. It is an account of the left-wing resistance in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin to the Nazis at the time of their seizure of power. To protect the identity of the leading characters it had to masquerade as fiction. In truth it is heroic fact. The manuscript had to be smuggled out of Germany in two baked cakes!

'Mr Hone writes Len Deighton into the ground.' 'An absolutely terrific espionage novel.' 'A brilliant and calculated spy story...' Extracts from three of the original reviews. It has also appeared in a recent survey of the best 50 spy thrillers of all time. Read it and you'll see the reason for all this praise.

Geoffrey Moorhouse was a brilliant and versatile writer who sadly died last year. Many of his books are in Faber Finds. The Fearful Void is the most personal one. 'It was because I was afraid that I had decided to attempt a crossing of the great Sahara desert, from west to east, by myself and by camel. No one had ever made such a journey before...'