From the multi-award winning author of the literary phenomenon A Girl is a Half-formed Thing. At the midpoint of her life a woman enters an Avignon hotel room. She’s been here once before – but while the room hasn’t changed, she is a different person now. Eimear McBride’s brand-new novel Strange Hotel is out now,…
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Faber pre-empts Leone Ross’s This One Sky Day
Louisa Joyner, Publishing Director, pre-empted world rights, all languages, from Niki Chang at The Good Literary Agency. Publication is scheduled for 4 February 2021. Following two star-crossed lovers finding their way back to one another over a single day, This One Sky Day is set on a fictional Caribbean archipelago called Popisho. A sensual…
This is not for lovers – an unromantic Valentine’s Day reading list
To celebrate the upcoming publication of Love After Love, this Valentine’s Day we are reading and recommending books about love without romance. Mothers and sons, tortoises and hedgehogs or landlords and lodgers, these are the books to read if you want to get swept up in an unconventional love story. Meet the irrepressible Betty…
Faber and Andlyn announce 2020 FAB Prize alongside new website
FABER AND ANDLYN ANNOUNCE THE OPENING OF THE FOURTH FAB PRIZE FOR UNDISCOVERED BAME TALENT Faber Children’s is now accepting submissions for the Faber and Andlyn BAME (FAB) Prize for undiscovered BAME writers and illustrators. The FAB Prize, now in its fourth year, aims to discover and showcase new talent, closing the gap between what…
Faber acquires Man Booker Prize-winner DBC Pierre’s Meanwhile In Dopamine City
Faber acquired UK Commonwealth (inc Canada) + EU rights from Clare Conville at C&W Agency. Publication is scheduled for 6 August 2020. It’s a big bad world out there, in Dopamine City. All Lonnie Cush wants is to keep his kids safe. But Shelby-Ann – his little girl, the maddening apple of his eye…
Faber acquires new landmark alternative history of twentieth-century music by Kate Molleson
Faber will publish the as yet untitled work by Kate Molleson in Spring 2022. Head of Faber Social Alexa von Hirschberg acquired World All Languages rights from John Ash at PEW Literary in a heated four-way auction. Profiling a dozen pioneering twentieth-century composers – including American modernist Ruth Crawford Seeger (mother of Pete and…
Faber marks the centenary of the birth of one of our greatest writers, P. D. James
Monday 3 August will mark what would have been the 100th birthday of P. D. James, whom Faber published for over fifty years following the publication of her first novel, Cover Her Face, in 1962. In celebration of this centenary, Faber will publish, for the first time in book form, her short story ‘The…
Guardian Faber to publish major new work by Luke Harding
Guardian Faber announces Luke Harding’s major new work Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia’s Remaking of the West. Guardian Faber will publish Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia’s Remaking of the West by Luke Harding on 7 May 2020. Associate Publisher Laura Hassan bought UK & Commonwealth rights from David Godwin at DGA. HarperCollins will publish…
Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens: Adam Low’s Director’s Diary
On 25 March 2009 I flew to Dublin with Matthew Evans, the former CEO of Faber & Faber, and my producer Martin Rosenbaum to film Seamus Heaney for a BBC Arena documentary about T. S. Eliot. Matthew and Seamus were old friends so it was a relaxed and informal encounter. Sitting in his favourite, green winged…
Christmas Gift Guide 2019
With Christmas around the corner, we’re here to bring you our selection of the best books to give to your loved ones. Whether you’re looking for a striking new novel, a thriller you can’t put down or the perfect stocking filler, there is a book for everyone in this year’s gift guide. PAPERBACK PICKS…
Christmas Reading List
We asked Faber staff what they’ll be reading and gifting this Christmas, as well as their books of the year. Rachel Darling, Trade Marketing Coordinator The book you can’t wait to read over Christmas I love re-reading and have managed quite a few old favourites this year. Over xmas I’m planning on The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch –…
Faber to publish second volume of Van Morrison’s selected lyrics
This mix of genuine humility and hard-won hubris, of mysticism and technical mastery … makes Van Morrison quite simply, and quite indisputably, “The Bard of Belfast.” – Paul Muldoon Featuring a foreword by Paul Muldoon and introduction by editor Eamonn Hughes, Keep ‘Er Lit is the second volume of Van Morrison’s selected lyrics containing one…
Celebrating Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
The monstrous creature that steps out of the painting looks so terrifying that Jam thinks that it must be evil. But, as the novel goes on, we get to know the ‘monster’ named Pet, and Pet goes on to ask: do we always know what evil looks like? Where and what are the modern day…
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage announces a ten-year tour of the UK’s libraries
From A to Z, wherever invitations and opportunities take me. Over a week in each spring for the next decade, Simon Armitage will give readings in libraries across the UK. Using the alphabet as a guide, his Laureate’s Library Tour will involve local communities, poets and students at each stop on the journey, and will…
Autumn Reading List
Autumn has well and truly arrived, and we’re here to inspire you with our book recommendations for a cosy night in. Find out which titles Faber staff are loving and looking forward to reading in the coming months. Ruby Bamber, Senior Sales and Commercial Operations Executive Life Among the Savages Shirley Jackson Originally published…
