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Welcome to the Faber Journal, our book blog. Read articles about literature and reading culture by Faber authors, staff and our community of readers.
75 Great Plays from the Last 75 Years
Faber is set to publish Killer App: The Rise of Telegram and the Battle for the Future of the Internet, by journalist Darren Loucaides.
Faber will publish The Club: Adventures in the New Patriarchy, a startling investigation into the British establishment, from the award-winning Guardian journalist Amelia Gentleman.
Faber is delighted to announce the acquisition of Unsung: Trailblazing Women Musicians of the Second World War by Leah Broad, a 'prize-winning rising star of broadcast and biography'.
Faber has acquired True Fire: Saint Augustine in Our Age of Crisis, a galvanising new book from Costa-winning author Bart van Es. Associate Publisher.
Faber will publish a special limited edition of Simon Armitage's Gilgamesh with drawings by Antony Gormley for publication in November 2026.
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Indie Bookshop of the Month
Each month we interview a bookseller from an independent bookshop in the UK, shining a light on the vibrant indie scene and the creativity of the booksellers that run these cherished local institutions.
Faber Members share the book resolutions they are setting for 2026.
View our reading list of books centred on friendship and how they define our lives — helping us in the …
For over a century, the Guardian’s Country Diary has published the nation’s most celebrated writers of natural history as they …
With the General Election coming up in under two weeks, we asked some of our authors what work they would …
Publishing Stories
William Golding began writing Lord of the Flies in 1951, while he was a teacher at Bishop Wordsworth’s School in Salisbury.
After the manuscript had been rejected by a number of leading publishing houses, Golding finally sent the tatty typescript to Faber & Faber, together with an accompanying letter. It had already been rejected by the firm’s reader when it was spotted by a new and aspiring editor, one Charles Monteith, who was allowed by the firm to take it on, provided significant cuts were made. These were made by Golding, after extensive correspondence with Monteith. Given a new title, Lord of the Flies, it became one of the most iconic novels of the 20th century.
About The Bindery
Faber has its home at The Bindery in Hatton Garden, an historic part of London. Matthew Green, author of Shadowlands, tells the story of the area.
Pride & Prejudice Quiz – Are You Really Elizabeth Bennet?
What is it about a play first written in French by Samuel Beckett in 1948–49 and produced (eventually) in a …
Esquire magazine tells the story of the famous literary typeface, a story deeply connected with Faber’s history.
The story of how Faber came to publish a great, but late, work by C. S. Lewis – A Grief …
Cover Her Face is P.D. James’s debut novel, the first Adam Dalgliesh mystery and a thrilling work of crime fiction …
The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi’s debut novel won the Whitbread Award for first novel and inspired a groundbreaking BBC …
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson’s debut novel – first published in the UK by Faber in 1981 – is a powerful portrayal …
