Immigrant Montana is the new novel by Amitava Kumar, journalist and author of several works of prize-winning literary non-fiction. The novel follows the story of Indian Immigrant, Kailash who arrives at a graduate school in New York, 1990. Part novel, part memoir the writing has also been praised by Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Refugees and The…
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Faber to publish Adèle, by the author of Lullaby Leïla Slimani
Faber is delighted to be publishing Adèle by the bestselling author of Lullaby, Leïla Slimani, in February 2019. Faber acquired World English language, excluding USA, rights from Anne-Solange Noble at Gallimard. Adèle appears to have the perfect life. A respected journalist, she lives in a flawless Parisian apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But beneath the veneer…
Faber Poetry Podcast episode 6: Edward Doegar & Ishion Hutchinson
In the final episode of our first series of the Faber Poetry Podcast, Rachael and Jack are joined in the studio by Edward Doegar and Ishion Hutchinson, who discuss the value of a ‘fake’ talisman and the violence and beauty that can be found in a game of marbles. Our final audio postcards of the…
The Man Booker Prize 2018
We are delighted to announce Anna Burns’s Milkman and Sally Rooney’s Normal People have been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. This year’s longlist of 13 books was selected by a panel of five judges: by the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah (Chair); crime writer Val McDermid; cultural critic Leo Robson; feminist writer and critic Jacqueline Rose; and artist and graphic novelist Leanne Shapton. Milkman, Anna…
Faber announces For The Good Times – the second novel by David Keenan
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…
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…
