Faber has won a six-way auction for the debut novel by Rebecca Watson, titled little scratch. Emmie Francis, Editor, acquired UK & Commonwealth rights to two books from Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown. Rights have sold to Doubleday US and Nijgh en van Ditmar in Holland. little scratch tells the story of a day in the life…
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Faber announces new book by comedian David Mitchell
Guardian Faber is delighted to announce the acquisition of Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By by the exceptionally funny and much-loved comedian, David Mitchell. Laura Hassan acquired World All Language rights from Ivan Mulcahy at MMBCreative and will publish on 7 November 2019. David Mitchell’s 2014 Sunday Times bestseller, Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse, must have…
Extract: Muscle by Alan Trotter
Read the opening to Alan Trotter’s hugely imaginative debut novel, Muscle. In a hard-boiled city of crooks, grifts and rackets lurk a pair of toughs: Box and _____. They’re the kind of men capable of extracting apologies and reparations, of teaching you a chilling lesson. They seldom think twice, and ask very few questions….
Announcing Louise Doughty’s ninth novel
Faber & Faber will publish Platform Seven by bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard, Louise Doughty, on 22 August 2019. Louisa Joyner, Editorial Director, bought World All Languages rights from Antony Harwood at Antony Harwood Limited. Platform Seven is a gripping, brilliant, original and eerily-timely novel. Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered…
Sam Eastland Competition
Faber & Faber and The Times/Sunday Times Crime Club are giving away five sets of Sam Eastland novels to celebrate the release of his latest thriller, The Elegant Lie. The bundle includes Berlin Red, Red Icon, The Beast in the Red Forest, and The Red Moth. To be in with a chance of winning, simply…
My Favourite Indie: David Keenan
Our latest ‘My Favourite Indie’ comes from David Keenan, author of This Is Memorial Device, a Telegraph and Rough Trade Book of the Year and winner of the Collyer Bristow Prize for a Debut Novel. His second novel For The Good Times is publishing this week and is already receiving rave reviews with the Sunday Times hailing it as ‘one of…
Cats on the Page exhibition
Having spent the last few months supplying artwork, suggestions and authors to the British Library for their new Cats on the Page exhibition, I was delighted to see the whole exhibition open this December. I’m an avowed cat lover but it’s sure to delight anyone with an interest in literature, however feline-averse they might be….
Hannah Sullivan’s Three Poems wins the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2018
We are delighted that Hannah Sullivan has been awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for her debut collection, Three Poems. After months of reading and deliberation, Sinéad Morrissey (Chair), Daljit Nagra and Clare Pollard chose the winner from a strong shortlist of five women and five men, with five debut collections on this…
Faber announces The Lark Ascending by Richard King
Faber is delighted to announce The Lark Ascending by Richard King, the bestselling and critically-acclaimed author of How Soon Is Now? and Original Rockers, for publication on 6 June 2018. Richard King’s new book is a history of the British countryside told through the relationship between music and landscape. Written by one of our most celebrated cultural historians, The Lark Ascending is a…
The Wall by John Lanchester – read the first chapter
Here’s the first chapter of John Lanchester’s new novel The Wall. His last was the international bestseller Capital, and like that book The Wall takes its cue from pressing issues of the day. Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he’s lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this,…
Faber Members launches an exciting Spring programme and new logo design for the 90th anniversary year
2019 marks Faber & Faber’s ninetieth anniversary as publishers of distinctive literature. To celebrate, Faber Members is delighted to launch a rich Spring programme of events which showcases our remarkable authors and their work, past and present. Man Booker Prize-winner Anna Burns will be in conversation with Editorial Director Louisa Joyner, and will read from…
Disposable Diaries: Willy Vlautin
Our latest ‘Disposable Diaries’ comes from Willy Vlautin, author of The Motel Life, Northline, Lean on Pete and The Free. His writing is often praised for giving a voice to unexpected characters with Los Angeles Review of Books calling him ‘the patron saint of the underdog’. The Portland-based author has the ability to capture the essence of…
Extract: We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
Read an essay from Samantha Irby’s New York Times Bestselling collection We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. In this painfully funny collection, Samantha Irby captures powerful emotional truths while chronicling the rubbish bin she calls her life. From an ill-fated pilgrimage to Nashville to scatter her estranged father’s ashes to awkward sexual encounters…
Gwendoline Riley wins the
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2017 for fiction
Gwendoline Riley’s First Love has won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2017 for fiction. This year’s judges were Lorien Kite, Susie Nicklin and Evie Wyld. Evie Wyld, on behalf of the judges, said: ’First Love was our unanimous winner. It’s a book of nerve endings and often brutal truthfulness. It’s slim but has a powerful gravitational field,…
Christmas Gift Guide
Fill your home with happy readers this Christmas . . . We’ve selected the best books of the year, from critically acclaimed novels and the finest poetry, to gifts for adventurers and fierce feminists. For the adventurers in your life, we recommend The Madonna of the Mountains, set in Northern Italy, and Craig Thompson’s graphic travel…
