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Longer reads about Faber authors and book culture, from the stories behind new titles to why we love book shops.
Robbie Porter, the cover designer behind How to Win an Information War, tells us about the challenge of designing a …
For our March Bookshop of the Month, we’re taking advantage of the very beginning of the spring weather with a …
Read an extract – ‘Hierophany’ – from Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age by Katherine May, the bestselling author …
On the fortieth anniversary of the Miners' Strike and the twentieth anniversary of the publication of GB84, David Peace reflects …
Read an extract from Ursula Parrott's Ex-Wife – a lost classic of single women losing and finding themselves in New …
Rachael Allen shares the prose and poetry that inspired God Complex, her second poetry collection.
Publishing director Angus Cargill sets the movie All of Us Strangers in the context of the novel on which it’s …
Our February Bookshop of the Month is Norwich institution The Book Hive, who have been supplying the city with bookseller-curated …
Read an extract from Claire Kilroy's first novel in a decade, Soldier Sailor, an urgent, memorable, gut-wrenching novel about motherhood, …
On the original publication of The Passengers, his oral history of contemporary Britain, Will Ashon talked to booksellers about the …
Emma Tarlo, author of Under the Hornbeams, shares photos documenting her friendship with Nick and Pascal, who live in Regent’s …
Read our picks of upcoming cultural highlights in the UK across drama, pop culture, poetry and classical music.
We asked Des Fitzgerald, Author of The City of Today is a Dying Thing, for a list of five notable …
To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024, read the opening of Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and …
Poet Hannah Sullivan remembers – through words and images – the creative process that led to her latest collection, Was …
In the first of our monthly interviews with independent bookshops, we visit Shalimar Books in South London.
Read Chapter One of Mistletoe Malice by Kathleen Farrell, a rediscovered classic and ‘a horribly delicious snapshot of post-war family …
Read the opening pages from Trapped in History, a history, as well as a memoir, of the end of Empire …
Kishan Rajani, senior designer at Faber, takes us through the design process for the cover of Paul Auster’s novel Baumgartner, …
Read an extract, 'In Praise of Shadow' from Ishion Hutchinson's unforgettable book-length poem, School of Instructions, out now.
Faber has been publishing playscripts for nearly seventy years, all the way back to John Osborne’s classic play Look Back …
Read an extract from Writing a Novel, the essential companion for your writing life by Richard Skinner, Director of Fiction …
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 …
How do you write a city that hasn’t decided what it’s going to be next? In the latest of our …
Read the opening pages of Baumgartner, a late masterpiece of love, memory and grief by Paul Auster, ‘one of the great …
Read four extracts from The Wisdom of Sheep & Other Animals, the ‘delightful’ (Alan Bennett) new book by by Rosamund …
In celebration of the publication of The Orange and other poems, we asked Wendy Cope to tell us how she …
To celebrate the publication of our new heritage edition of Ted Hughes' Lupercal, Faber's Editor-at-Large, Poetry, picks three poems from …
Designer Sophie Harris shares the creative process that went into the book jacket for Sara Pascoe’s debut novel, Weirdo.
Peter Swanson shares how he was inspired to write this his latest Christmas-set mystery.
We asked Faber Members to send in their first encounters with the writing of Seamus Heaney and were thrilled with …
As Cahokia Jazz, his novel reimagining the history of North America, is published, Francis Spufford explains why alternative history in …
Thank you to all Members who took part. We hope you find some new gems for your list.
Read our picks of upcoming cultural highlights in the UK across drama, pop culture, poetry and classical music.
As Volume 5 of his survey of the Hundred Years War is published, Jonathan Sumption tells the story of an …
To mark the tenth anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s death and to celebrate his extraordinary legacy, we share a poem from …