Our latest ‘My Favourite Indie’ comes from Sara Gran, author of six critically acclaimed novels, including City of the Dead and Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway. The third novel in the Claire DeWitt series, The Infinite Blacktop, is set between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, and it’s to the City of Angels here, to her neighbourhood bookshop – Iliad…
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Jenny Uglow wins the Hawthornden Prize for Literature 2018
The Hawthornden Prize for Literature 2018 was awarded to Jenny Uglow for her ‘outstanding biography of a secretive genius’, Mr Lear. The award was presented on behalf of the Hawthornden Literary Retreat by Christopher Reid, chairman of the judges, at a reception at the London Library. The Hawthornden Prize rewards works of ‘imaginative literature’ whether prose…
Disposable Diaries: Sarah Ward
This month, we publish The Shrouded Path, an irresistible autumnal mystery by Sarah Ward. The book is the fourth in the author’s gripping DC Connie Childs series, which includes A Patient Fury, A Deadly Thaw and In Bitter Chill – all of which are set in the Peak District. We gave Sarah Ward a disposable camera, and the…
The Fires of Heaven and Hell: Sylvia Plath’s ‘Fever 103°’
From the birth of her daughter to a cut thumb, moments described in Sylvia Plath’s letters become those that enliven her poems. The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II: 1956–1963 sheds new light on the composition of many of Plath’s Ariel poems. In the case of ‘Fever 103°’, Plath’s correspondence with Paul and Clarissa Roche…
Faber tells the story of 90 years of publishing
The year 2019 marks Faber’s ninetieth anniversary as a publisher of distinctive literature, shaping as well as reflecting our times through books and ideas. Today Faber launches a publishing programme that will celebrate the company’s unique history, authors and design heritage, as part of a magnificent spring list. Our spring catalogue introduces a specially commissioned…
William Atkins vs the desert
This is an extract from William Atkins’ book The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places, taken from the chapter covering his trip to the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert. John C. Frémont had no desire to settle the desert, nor any expectation that it might be made to bloom as the boosters…
