Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to his coming of age in the 1970s forms a vivid backdrop to the drama that develops thirty years later, as he and his friends face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved.
'A vital, teeming, panoramic, immersive novel.' Time Out
Also available as a Faber Audiobook read by Art Malik; read an extract; win Hanif Kureishi's fiction. [read more]
'A vital, teeming, panoramic, immersive novel.' Time Out
Also available as a Faber Audiobook read by Art Malik; read an extract; win Hanif Kureishi's fiction. [read more]
Humphrey, the world's favourite hamster (who sounds uncannily like comedian Greg Proops), now welcomes all his young fans to his brand new website, which comes with a highly addictive game, Nutding, a new adventure for World Book Day, and a destination for all pet owners - the Hamster Zone! [more]
This year's Aye Write! Bank of Scotland Book Festival is opened on Friday 7th March by Hanif Kureishi, who'll be discussing his new novel Something to Tell You. Then on Saturday, following a screening of Venus, he'll be discussing writing for the screen. For these and other Faber-related events, click here.
Single-motherhood, relationships and needlework are some of the themes that run throughout Things to Make and Mend, the debut novel from Ruth Thomas and a recent recipient of a Good Housekeeping Book Award. Our new guide includes a Q & A with the author, and background to the story.
It has been ten long years since Drown, but fans now have Junot Diaz's magical first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. On his recent trip to the UK, Diaz wowed critics and audiences (as he did in this Borders US interview). Download an extract and a New Yorker podcast, and win copies of Drown here.
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