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Sally Rooney

Intermezzo

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. ‘I read it in a state of rapture,’ (Sunday Times).

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Solvej Balle

On the Calculation of Volume

Discover the first two volumes of On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025.

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Dwell

New Collection

Simon Armitage

This gorgeously illustrated collection of poems illuminates and reimagines the ingenious, fragile dwellings of the living creatures around us.

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What to Read this Spring

Spring 2025

Has the warmer weather put a spring in your step? The Faber team have recommendations for all tastes in our 2025 Spring Reading List.

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Sally Rooney: Eight Books I Read While Writing Intermezzo
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As her fourth novel is published in paperback, Sally Rooney shares the books she read while writing and editing Intermezzo.

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Read a poem by Simon Armitage, commissioned by Historic Royal Palaces to mark the eightieth anniversary of the end of …

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Solvej Balle was born in 1962 and made her debut in 1986 with Lyrefugl (Lyrebird.) She went on to write one of the 1990s’ most acclaimed works of Danish literature, Ifølge loven (1993) (‘According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind’, translated by Barbara Haveland.) On Calculation of Volume is Solvej Balle’s return to literary stardom after nearly 30 years.

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