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August marks Women in Translation month, dedicated to amplifying women writers and translators across the globe.
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Our Bookshop of the Month for July is Dial Lane Books, the only independent bookshop in Ipswich, Suffolk.
Mario Vargas Llosa's editor at Faber, Robert McCrum, remembers the Peruvian writer following his death earlier this year.
Whether you’re lounging by the pool or escaping the heat in an air-conditioned café, you’ll find the perfect read among …
Lally MacBeth, author of The Lost Folk, chooses five objects from her collection, things with sentimental or historical significance.
We asked the Faber team for their romantic fiction recommendations, perfect for devouring on the beach, by the pool or …
Michael Pedersen shares some of his favourite Scottish authors and writing, including those that inspired his new novel, Muckle Flugga.
Our Bookshop of the Month for June is Backstory, a bookshop and bar in Balham, south London founded by ex-journalist …
Taran N. Khan, award-winning journalist and nonfiction writer, explores the connection between walking and writing.
In this Disposable Camera Diary, Josie George, author of Letters From Wonderland, takes us on a journey to find the …
Kate McCaffrey explores the history of decorated books and what they can tell us about their owners, from Anne Boleyn’s …
Francesca Wade, author of the luminescent Gertrude Stein, shares her top five Stein-inspired cultural highlights, from operas, recordings and novels …
This week, our Poem of the Week is ‘The Anchorage’, the title poem from Bernard O’Donoghue’s new collection. You can …
Fulfillment is the ‘stone cold fox of a second novel’ (Pandora Sykes) from Lee Cole, set in Kentucky, following two …
Our Bookshop of the Month is Juno Books – a friendly feminist and queer community bookshop in Chapel Walk in …
As her fourth novel is published in paperback, Sally Rooney shares the books she read while writing and editing Intermezzo.
Oh, for a time machine to explore the past! But until Elon Musk comes up with one, books and biographies …
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Sylvia Plath (1932–63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
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Faber has announced the publication of William Golding: The Faber Letters, the remarkable literary collaboration between the Nobel Prize-winning William …
Faber announces the first of its celebrated group of talented new debuts for 2026: Belgrave Road by award-winning writer Manish …
Faber has acquired a hotly-contested and revelatory history of Davos and the World Economic Forum by Caitlín Doherty.
Faber is thrilled to have signed a significant four book deal with Kieran Larwood as the much-loved World of Podkin …
Lochlann Binney, Crime Editor, has acquired thriller The Confessions by former tech journalist Paul Bradley Carr from Marilia Savvides of The …
Faber is delighted to announce the acquisition of renowned writer and cultural documentarian Emma Warren’s Up the Youth Club: Illuminating a Hidden History.
Faber acquires ‘irresistible’ history of dolls from writer and journalist Otamere Guobadia
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