Faber is excited to announce the eagerly anticipated second novel from David Keenan, author of This Is Memorial Device. David Keenan’s second novel plunges the reader into the dark night of Belfast in the 1970s: an era of military terror and sectarian violence, of occult visions and religious intensity. Sammy and his three friends live…
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Read ‘Theatre 6’ from Sarah Hall’s Madame Zero short story collection
Shortlisted on the 2018 Edge Hill Short Story Prize, Sarah Hall’s Madame Zero is published in paperback this week. The collection is rich in the mythic symbolism of wilderness and wasteland, with tales that blur the natural and urban, mundane and surreal, human and animal. Read ‘Theatre 6’, a dystopian tale from the collection which chillingly…
Sarah Ward on writing deadly Derbyshire Noir
From the ‘mean streets’ of Derby to the wild moors of the Peak District, Derbyshire’s atmospheric locations have exercised a powerful appeal for crime novelists. An event held at Waterstones, Sheffield, was dedicated to the rise of the genre. Sarah Ward, one of the authors featured, gives a round-up of how the evening unfolded. Four Derbyshire…
Faber to publish John Lanchester’s new novel The Wall
Faber is delighted to be publishing The Wall by the bestselling author of Capital, John Lanchester, in January 2019. Faber acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, plus EU, excluding Canada, from Caradoc King at United Agents. The Wall is a thrilling and hypnotic work of fiction: a mystery story, a love story, a war story and a story about a voyage. Kavanagh begins his…
Faber Poetry Podcast episode five: Holly Pester & Sam Riviere
In the penultimate episode of our first series, Rachael and Jack are joined in the studio by Holly Pester and Sam Riviere, plus a pat of butter and a set of nail clippers, which inspire conversations about poetry writing and its relationship to research, archives and procrastination. Audio postcards this episode come from Will Harris,…
An extract from the film-poem celebrating 70 years of the NHS: To Provide All People
This month marks the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service Act. To honour the occasion Owen Sheers has created a virtuosic ‘film-poem’, To Provide All People, which Faber published last month and which has subsequently premiered on BBC2. Depicting 24 hours in the service, with a regional hospital at the centre of the action, the poem…
Read an extract of The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk
The spellbinding new novel by Turkish Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk, author of My Name is Red, A Strangeness in My Mind and Snow. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well-digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer…
