Brigid Brophy’s The Snow Ball is a scandalous 1960s cult classic, reissued by Faber for the festive season this Christmas. When Anna is kissed by a masked figure at a New Year’s Eve masquerade ball, a heady dance of seduction begins . . . Described as ‘superb’ by Iris Murdoch (Brophy’s one-time lover!) and…
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Christmas Gift Guide 2020
Can’t decide what to give your friends and family this year? Our Christmas Gift Guide is here to help. We’ve rounded up our top recommendations for everyone on your shopping list (or even a treat for yourself), from prize-winning new fiction to the perfect stocking filler. We’ve got lots of fiction to choose from…
Faber acquires Nervous Conditions and The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Faber is thrilled to announce that Louisa Joyner, Associate Publisher, has acquired World All Language rights in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s previous two novels from Karolina Sutton at Curtis Brown. Nervous Conditions (widely regarded as a classic of African literature) and The Book of Not form the trilogy with This Mournable Body (currently on the shortlist for this year’s Booker Prize). We are overjoyed…
Faber Radio presents Melissa Harrison’s Town & Country playlist
Melissa Harrison has put together a playlist of music that inspired her nature diary The Stubborn Light of Things. She has released a series of top-rated podcasts, also called The Stubborn Light of Things. The audiobook of her new book features an exclusive new episode. Here’s a ‘best of’ collection of extracts taken from across…
Announcing Richard Thompson’s Beeswing.
The autobiography from world-renowned artist Richard Thompson, co-founder of the legendary folk rock group Fairport Convention, coming 15 April 2021. ‘Thompson could be said to be an English Dylan – only in some ways he’s even better than that.’ Guardian Richard Thompson came of age at an extraordinary moment in British culture. It was…
Faber announces unabridged audio editions of Rachel Cusk’s acclaimed Outline trilogy, narrated by Kristin Scott Thomas
The first of the recordings, Outline, will be released on 29 October 2020, followed by Transit in February 2021 and Kudos in early 2023. Kristin Scott Thomas is a long-standing admirer of Rachel Cusk’s novels and is perfect casting for the voice of Faye, the protagonist of the iconic trilogy. Kristin Scott Thomas said:…
Faber announces masterful new novel by Claire Keegan, one of Ireland’s great writers
Faber announces Small Things Like These, a beautiful and delicately wrought short novel by Claire Keegan. The novel will be published in Autumn 2021. Alex Bowler acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Felicity Blunt at Curtis Brown. Alex Bowler, Publisher, said: An exquisite wintery parable, Claire Keegan’s long-awaited return tells the story of a simple act of…
Faber Radio presents Andrew O’Hagan’s Mayflies jukebox.
‘Completing my last promise to our late pal Keith Martin, that we’d put his Top 50 records into the vintage jukebox at Sam’s Cafe, Primrose Hill. . . It’s like Mayflies come to life. . . What, no ‘Teenage Kicks’? The inclusion of OMD? Let the arguments commence!’ Listen to the music that inspired Andrew…
Announcing Max Porter’s The Death of Francis Bacon.
Madrid. Unfinished. Man Dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed. Max Porter translates into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist’s mind. ‘This is my attempt to write as painting, not about it; an attempt to replicate thought, struggle, the struggle of thought, but also the sheer energy of the…
Faber acquires two books from Eula Biss
Associate Publisher Laura Hassan acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada and ANZ) from David Grossman at the David Grossman Literary Agency. Faber will publish Having and Being Had on 7 January 2021. ‘My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts,’ Eula Biss writes; ‘the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.’ Having just…
What we’re reading this autumn
Autumn is here, bringing colder weather and a whole load of new books to covet. If you’re wondering what to add to your TBR pile next, we’ve asked Faber staff what they’re reading and recommending this season. Katie Hall, Marketing Director Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Flake Matthew Dooley At the moment I’m reading Anna…
Announcing Light Perpetual, a new novel from Francis Spufford
Faber to publish an ingenious and profound new novel by Francis Spufford, the best-selling, prize-winning author of Golden Hill. From the winner of the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize comes a novel of the everyday, the miraculous and the everlasting. November 1944. A German rocket incinerates a…
Classic Richard Scarry books to be newly published by Faber
Faber have acquired four classic Richard Scarry titles, currently unavailable in the UK. Publishing in January and March next year, these high-quality gift editions of the very best, most popular titles promise to restore Scarry’s place as a national treasure and bring his best loved characters to a new generation of young readers. Richard…
Louisa Joyner and Alex Bowler respond to the Women’s Prize announcement
For the past quarter of a century, the Women’s Prize for Fiction has been an immensely powerful and dynamic force for good. And writers we publish have benefited enormously from the Prize’s support. However, it appears that since the longlisting of Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater in 2019, the Prize has changed its rules, as the…
Announcing Georgia Pritchett’s My Mess Is a Bit of a Life.
English teacher ‘in despair’ as Faber buys Georgia Pritchett’s My Mess Is a Bit of a Life. This memoir, told in gloriously comic vignettes, is an utterly joyful reflection on living – and sometimes thriving sometimes not – with anxiety. From worrying about the monsters under her bed as a child (Were they comfy…
