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Book Cover Design: How to Win an Information War
Book Cover Design: How to Win an Information War

Robbie Porter, the cover designer behind How to Win an Information War, tells us about the challenge of designing a …

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Independent Bookshop of the Month: The Portobello Bookshop
Independent Bookshop of the Month: The Portobello Bookshop

For our March Bookshop of the Month, we’re taking advantage of the very beginning of the spring weather with a …

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Long Read Extract: Enchantment by Katherine May
Long Read Extract: Enchantment by Katherine May

Read an extract – ‘Hierophany’ – from Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age by Katherine May, the bestselling author …

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The Miners’ Strike forty years on, GB84 twenty years on
The Miners’ Strike forty years on, GB84 twenty years on

On the fortieth anniversary of the Miners' Strike and the twentieth anniversary of the publication of GB84, David Peace reflects …

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Extract: Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
Extract: Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott

Read an extract from Ursula Parrott's Ex-Wife – a lost classic of single women losing and finding themselves in New …

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Behind the Book: God Complex by Rachael Allen
Behind the Book: God Complex by Rachael Allen

Rachael Allen shares the prose and poetry that inspired God Complex, her second poetry collection.

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All of Us Strangers – the Book Behind the Movie
All of Us Strangers – the Book Behind the Movie

Publishing director Angus Cargill sets the movie All of Us Strangers in the context of the novel on which it’s …

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Independent Bookshop of the Month: The Book Hive
Independent Bookshop of the Month: The Book Hive

Our February Bookshop of the Month is Norwich institution The Book Hive, who have been supplying the city with bookseller-curated …

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Extract: Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
Extract: Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy

Read an extract from Claire Kilroy's first novel in a decade, Soldier Sailor, an urgent, memorable, gut-wrenching novel about motherhood, …

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The Readers
The Readers

On the original publication of The Passengers, his oral history of contemporary Britain, Will Ashon talked to booksellers about the …

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Photo Essay: Under the Hornbeams by Emma Tarlo
Photo Essay: Under the Hornbeams by Emma Tarlo

Emma Tarlo, author of Under the Hornbeams, shares photos documenting her friendship with Nick and Pascal, who live in Regent’s …

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Members Only Faber Arts Editors on Events Not to Miss in Spring 2024
Faber Arts Editors on Events Not to Miss in Spring 2024

Read our picks of upcoming cultural highlights in the UK across drama, pop culture, poetry and classical music.

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Five of the World’s Worst Cities – Real and Imagined
Five of the World’s Worst Cities – Real and Imagined

We asked Des Fitzgerald, Author of The City of Today is a Dying Thing, for a list of five notable …

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Extract: Time’s Echo by Jeremy Eichler
Extract: Time’s Echo by Jeremy Eichler

To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024, read the opening of Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and …

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Photo Essay: Was It for This by Hannah Sullivan
Photo Essay: Was It for This by Hannah Sullivan

Poet Hannah Sullivan remembers – through words and images – the creative process that led to her latest collection, Was …

Independent Bookshop of the Month: Shalimar Books
Independent Bookshop of the Month: Shalimar Books

In the first of our monthly interviews with independent bookshops, we visit Shalimar Books in South London.

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Long Read Extract: Mistletoe Malice by Kathleen Farrell
Long Read Extract: Mistletoe Malice by Kathleen Farrell

Read Chapter One of Mistletoe Malice by Kathleen Farrell, a rediscovered classic and ‘a horribly delicious snapshot of post-war family …

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Extract: Trapped in History: Kenya, Mau Mau and Me
Extract: Trapped in History: Kenya, Mau Mau and Me

Read the opening pages from Trapped in History, a history, as well as a memoir, of the end of Empire …

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Book Cover Design: Baumgartner by Paul Auster
Book Cover Design: Baumgartner by Paul Auster

Kishan Rajani, senior designer at Faber, takes us through the design process for the cover of Paul Auster’s novel Baumgartner, …

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Extract: School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson
Extract: School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson

Read an extract, 'In Praise of Shadow' from Ishion Hutchinson's unforgettable book-length poem, School of Instructions, out now.

Playscripts and Drama Books: A Faber Introduction
Playscripts and Drama Books: A Faber Introduction

Faber has been publishing playscripts for nearly seventy years, all the way back to John Osborne’s classic play Look Back …

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Extract: Writing a Novel by Richard Skinner
Extract: Writing a Novel by Richard Skinner

Read an extract from Writing a Novel, the essential companion for your writing life by Richard Skinner, Director of Fiction …

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The Golden Mole and Other Vanishing Treasure
The Golden Mole and Other Vanishing Treasure

In The Golden Mole, Katherine Rundell, the award-winning author of Super-Infinite and Impossible Creatures, takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world’s strangest and …

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Writing Modern Belfast
Writing Modern Belfast

How do you write a city that hasn’t decided what it’s going to be next? In the latest of our …

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Extract: Baumgartner by Paul Auster
Extract: Baumgartner by Paul Auster

Read the opening pages of Baumgartner, a late masterpiece of love, memory and grief by Paul Auster, ‘one of the great …

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Four Extracts: The Wisdom of Sheep
Four Extracts: The Wisdom of Sheep

Read four extracts from The Wisdom of Sheep & Other Animals, the ‘delightful’ (Alan Bennett) new book by by Rosamund …

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How I Came to Write ‘The Orange’ by Wendy Cope
How I Came to Write ‘The Orange’ by Wendy Cope

In celebration of the publication of The Orange and other poems, we asked Wendy Cope to tell us how she …

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Three Poems from Ted Hughes’s Lupercal
Three Poems from Ted Hughes’s Lupercal

To celebrate the publication of our new heritage edition of Ted Hughes' Lupercal, Faber's Editor-at-Large, Poetry, picks three poems from …

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Book Cover Design: Weirdo by Sara Pascoe
Book Cover Design: Weirdo by Sara Pascoe

Designer Sophie Harris shares the creative process that went into the book jacket for Sara Pascoe’s debut novel, Weirdo.

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Behind the Book: Peter Swanson on The Christmas Guest
Behind the Book: Peter Swanson on The Christmas Guest

Peter Swanson shares how he was inspired to write this his latest Christmas-set mystery.

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Members Only Members’s First Encounters: Seamus Heaney
Members’s First Encounters: Seamus Heaney

We asked Faber Members to send in their first encounters with the writing of Seamus Heaney and were thrilled with …

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Alternative History in Fiction
Alternative History in Fiction

As Cahokia Jazz, his novel reimagining the history of North America, is published, Francis Spufford explains why alternative history in …

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Members Only Members Rereading Recommendations
Members Rereading Recommendations

Thank you to all Members who took part. We hope you find some new gems for your list.

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Members Only Faber Arts Editors’ Autumn 2023 Picks
Faber Arts Editors’ Autumn 2023 Picks

Read our picks of upcoming cultural highlights in the UK across drama, pop culture, poetry and classical music.

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Jonathan Sumption: 44 Years Writing About Europe’s Longest War
Jonathan Sumption: 44 Years Writing About Europe’s Longest War

As Volume 5 of his survey of the Hundred Years War is published, Jonathan Sumption tells the story of an …

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Seamus Heaney’s Poetry: 12 Poems from 12 Collections
Seamus Heaney’s Poetry: 12 Poems from 12 Collections

To mark the tenth anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s death and to celebrate his extraordinary legacy, we share a poem from …