The diary and essays of Brian Eno, republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful hardcover edition. Faber will publish a new edition of A Year with Swollen Appendices by Brian Eno in November 2020. At the end of 1994, musician, producer and artist Brian Eno resolved to…
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Faber acquires Matthew Williams’s The Science of Hate
Associate publisher, Laura Hassan, acquired WAL rights from Anwen Hooson at Bird Literary Agency. Publication is scheduled for March 2021. Why do people commit hate crimes? A world-leading criminologist explores the tipping point between prejudice and hate crime, analysing human behaviour across the globe and throughout history in this vital book. As a Professor of Criminology with…
Faber announces a collection of poetry by Barbara Kingsolver
Faber is delighted to announce the publication of a collection of poetry by internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver. Lavinia Singer has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from David Grossman of David Grossman Literary Agency for publication in the UK in August 2020. HarperCollins will publish in the US in September. How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) offers emotionally rich reflections on the…
Faber Social unveils year ahead
We’re pleased to unveil our brand new Faber Social list for the year ahead. The list includes Side by Side, the lyrics of Robert Wyatt and Alfie Benge, introduced by Jarvis Cocker (September 2020); Kate Tempest’s first work of non-fiction, a short, radical ‘theory of creativity’ about the power of connection to act as an…
Eimear McBride Strange Hotel Tour
From the multi-award winning author of the literary phenomenon A Girl is a Half-formed Thing. At the midpoint of her life a woman enters an Avignon hotel room. She’s been here once before – but while the room hasn’t changed, she is a different person now. Eimear McBride’s brand-new novel Strange Hotel is out now,…
Faber pre-empts Leone Ross’s This One Sky Day
Louisa Joyner, Publishing Director, pre-empted world rights, all languages, from Niki Chang at The Good Literary Agency. Publication is scheduled for 4 February 2021. Following two star-crossed lovers finding their way back to one another over a single day, This One Sky Day is set on a fictional Caribbean archipelago called Popisho. A sensual…
Faber acquires Man Booker Prize-winner DBC Pierre’s Meanwhile In Dopamine City
Faber acquired UK Commonwealth (inc Canada) + EU rights from Clare Conville at C&W Agency. Publication is scheduled for 6 August 2020. It’s a big bad world out there, in Dopamine City. All Lonnie Cush wants is to keep his kids safe. But Shelby-Ann – his little girl, the maddening apple of his eye…
Faber acquires new landmark alternative history of twentieth-century music by Kate Molleson
Faber will publish the as yet untitled work by Kate Molleson in Spring 2022. Head of Faber Social Alexa von Hirschberg acquired World All Languages rights from John Ash at PEW Literary in a heated four-way auction. Profiling a dozen pioneering twentieth-century composers – including American modernist Ruth Crawford Seeger (mother of Pete and…
Faber marks the centenary of the birth of one of our greatest writers, P. D. James
Monday 3 August will mark what would have been the 100th birthday of P. D. James, whom Faber published for over fifty years following the publication of her first novel, Cover Her Face, in 1962. In celebration of this centenary, Faber will publish, for the first time in book form, her short story ‘The…
Guardian Faber to publish major new work by Luke Harding
Guardian Faber announces Luke Harding’s major new work Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia’s Remaking of the West. Guardian Faber will publish Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia’s Remaking of the West by Luke Harding on 7 May 2020. Associate Publisher Laura Hassan bought UK & Commonwealth rights from David Godwin at DGA. HarperCollins will publish…
Faber to publish second volume of Van Morrison’s selected lyrics
This mix of genuine humility and hard-won hubris, of mysticism and technical mastery … makes Van Morrison quite simply, and quite indisputably, “The Bard of Belfast.” – Paul Muldoon Featuring a foreword by Paul Muldoon and introduction by editor Eamonn Hughes, Keep ‘Er Lit is the second volume of Van Morrison’s selected lyrics containing one…
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage announces a ten-year tour of the UK’s libraries
From A to Z, wherever invitations and opportunities take me. Over a week in each spring for the next decade, Simon Armitage will give readings in libraries across the UK. Using the alphabet as a guide, his Laureate’s Library Tour will involve local communities, poets and students at each stop on the journey, and will…
Faber to publish first comprehensive volume of Lou Reed’s lyrics
The nature of Lou Reed’s lyric writing that had been hitherto unknown in rock . . . gave us the environment in which to put our more theatrical vision. He supplied us with the stretch and the landscape, and we peopled it – David Bowie Out of print for several years, this is the first…
A new novel from Sebastian Barry, A Thousand Moons, publishing in March 2020
Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live… Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a…
Guardian Faber to publish Decline and Fail by John Crace
Guardian Faber will publish Decline and Fail by John Crace, the bestselling author of I, Maybot, on 7th November 2019. Fred Baty bought world all language rights from Matthew Hamilton at the Hamilton Agency. ‘Optimism, mojo, complete bollocks. That’s what the country is crying out for.’ There is now only one certainty in life. When…
