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Books & Conversations: Would you like to be our Featured Reading Group?
Barbara Kingsolver's perennial favourite The Poisonwood Bible proved a hit with our first featured group of readers. We're on the look-out for more groups and early reviewers, and we've guides and recipes to inspire debate. More
Print on Popular Demand: Unearthing Classic Books
Why not take a leaf out of Lawrence Hills' books and grow your own? Featured recently in the Guardian, Hills was one of the founders of the modern organic movement, and a champion of the plant Comfrey. Three of Hills' books, and 300 other great titles, are now reissued. More
Harold Pinter (1930-2008):
'Harold was a great dramatist and screenwriter, a ferocious polemicist, a fighter against all forms of hypocrisy. What we should also remember today is his generosity of spirit and his rage for life', wrote biographer and friend Michael Billington in one of many tributes upon Harold Pinter's death. More
An Anniversary Reading: Kings Place, January 2009
To mark the Arvon Foundation's 40th anniversary and Faber's 80th, an unmissable event at London's new Kings Place, featuring celebrated Arvon alumni: poets Wendy Cope and Daljit Nagra, and playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz. More
Emma Jones: Featured Author
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BBC2's Newsnight Review recently featured Australian poet Emma Jones, whose debut collection The Striped World is published in February. She's already won Australia's richest poetry prize, and is hotly-tipped for more honours in 2009. Here's what they said. More
Competitions: Your Chance to Win Prizes
A new year means a new diary! We have copies of the beautiful Faber Diary up for grabs, and we're also giving away copies of Philip Larkin's The Sunday Sessions. More