Second Place, the new novel by the internationally acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, will be published on 6 May in hardback, ebook and audio editions. Alex Bowler, Publisher, acquired UK & Commonwealth and audio rights from Sarah Chalfant at the Wylie Agency. Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish simultaneously in the US. A…
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Time is all there is: a short film for Eimear McBride’s Strange Hotel
‘This is not her first time in this hotel but she had not expected to return.’ So begins an evocative short film by the filmmaker Eleanor Mortimer, in which Eimear McBride reads from her acclaimed novel Strange Hotel. In Strange Hotel, the third novel from the award-winning author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, a…
Excavate!: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
Faber presents a definitive insight into the ever-influential world of Mark E. Smith and the Fall, featuring never-before-published essays and ephemera from fans and collectors, edited by Tessa Norton & Bob Stanley. ‘To 50,000 Fall Fans: please buy this inspired & inspiring, profound & provocative, beautiful & bonkers Book of Revelations, choc-stock-full of loving Acts…
Announcing Dr Gwen Adshead & Eileen Horne’s The Devil You Know
Stories of radical empathy from a leading forensic psychiatrist: a timely and perspective-shattering work that gives profound insights into the life of the mind. ‘Every violent crime is a tragedy, for the victims and their families as well as for the perpetrators. Over the years, I’ve come to think of my patients as survivors of…
Cover Design: little scratch
Senior Designer Jonny Pelham tells us about the design process for Rebecca Watson’s debut novel, little scratch. little scratch spans a single day. This is London life as a young woman: working in a newsroom pre-lockdown, commuting from a rented flat to an office, a lunchbreak to eat some disappointing canteen soup, then willing away…
A Crooked Tree
Read the opening chapter of Una Mannion’s gripping debut novel A Crooked Tree
Which Goddess Can Help You Today?
Why settle for mere mortal excellence when you could be living like a goddess? Inspired by You Goddess!, the latest offering from What Would Boudicca Do? authors E. Coley and B. Coates, find out which goddess could help you with our special quiz… You Goddess! by E. Coley & B. Coates is out now…
Read Eley Williams’s foreword to The Snow Ball by Brigid Brophy
Brigid Brophy’s The Snow Ball is a scandalous 1960s cult classic, reissued by Faber for the festive season this Christmas. When Anna is kissed by a masked figure at a New Year’s Eve masquerade ball, a heady dance of seduction begins . . . Described as ‘superb’ by Iris Murdoch (Brophy’s one-time lover) and…
Christmas Gift Guide 2020
Can’t decide what to give your friends and family this year? Our Christmas Gift Guide is here to help. We’ve rounded up our top recommendations for everyone on your shopping list (or even a treat for yourself), from prize-winning new fiction to the perfect stocking filler. We’ve got lots of fiction to choose from…
Faber acquires Nervous Conditions and The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Faber is thrilled to announce that Louisa Joyner, Associate Publisher, has acquired World All Language rights in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s previous two novels from Karolina Sutton at Curtis Brown. Nervous Conditions (widely regarded as a classic of African literature) and The Book of Not form the trilogy with This Mournable Body (currently on the shortlist for this year’s Booker Prize). We are overjoyed…
Faber Radio presents Melissa Harrison’s Town & Country playlist
Melissa Harrison has put together a playlist of music that inspired her nature diary The Stubborn Light of Things. She has released a series of top-rated podcasts, also called The Stubborn Light of Things. The audiobook of her new book features an exclusive new episode. Here’s a ‘best of’ collection of extracts taken from across…
Announcing Richard Thompson’s Beeswing.
The autobiography from world-renowned artist Richard Thompson, co-founder of the legendary folk rock group Fairport Convention, coming 15 April 2021. ‘Thompson could be said to be an English Dylan – only in some ways he’s even better than that.’ Guardian Richard Thompson came of age at an extraordinary moment in British culture. It was…
Faber announces unabridged audio editions of Rachel Cusk’s acclaimed Outline trilogy, narrated by Kristin Scott Thomas
The first of the recordings, Outline, will be released on 29 October 2020, followed by Transit in February 2021 and Kudos in early 2023. Kristin Scott Thomas is a long-standing admirer of Rachel Cusk’s novels and is perfect casting for the voice of Faye, the protagonist of the iconic trilogy. Kristin Scott Thomas said:…
Faber announces masterful new novel by Claire Keegan, one of Ireland’s great writers
Faber announces Small Things Like These, a beautiful and delicately wrought short novel by Claire Keegan. The novel will be published in Autumn 2021. Alex Bowler acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Felicity Blunt at Curtis Brown. Alex Bowler, Publisher, said: An exquisite wintery parable, Claire Keegan’s long-awaited return tells the story of a simple act of…
Faber Radio presents Andrew O’Hagan’s Mayflies jukebox
‘Completing my last promise to our late pal Keith Martin, that we’d put his Top 50 records into the vintage jukebox at Sam’s Cafe, Primrose Hill. . . It’s like Mayflies come to life. . . What, no ‘Teenage Kicks’? The inclusion of OMD? Let the arguments commence!’ Listen to the music that inspired Andrew…
