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Browse features about Faber authors and book culture, from the stories behind new titles to why we love book shops.
Read an exclusive extract from Lynch on Lynch edited by Chris Rodley, the definitive work on the career of the …
Our Independent Bookshop of the Month for February is Books on the Lane, a cosy independent bookshop in the village …
Emily Rhodes explores the pleasures of rereading and just what it is that compels us to return to familiar favourites …
Our first Independent Bookshop of the Month of 2025 is Bàrd Books, an independent bookshop (with a well-stocked bar!) on …
Read an extract from Murder Mindfully, a riotously entertaining crime novel about finding inner peace – violently.
James and Lucy Catchpole are a husband-and-wife creative duo, who work in children’s publishing and write picture books that centre …
Senior Designer Henry Petrides tells us how he designed a unique cover for Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake – a …
For over a century, the Guardian’s Country Diary has published the nation’s most celebrated writers of natural history as they …
November’s Independent Bookshop of the Month is the Children’s Bookshop, Muswell Hill, an award-winning independent children’s bookshop in London which …
Artist and designer Luke Edward Hall describes the process of creating new covers for the Faber YA Illustrated Classics Editions …
Read an extract from Platform Seven by Sunday Times bestselling author Louise Doughty, out now in paperback.
October’s Independent Bookshop of the Month is Sam Read Bookseller in Grasmere, Cumbria – probably the oldest bookshop in the …
What is it about a play first written in French by Samuel Beckett in 1948–49 and produced (eventually) in a …
To celebrate the new movie adaptation of Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These, we asked Faber Members to submit questions …
Read an essay from Gary Younge's new collection, Dispatches from the Diaspora, about what a White History Month would mean, …
Pre-order The Notorious Virtues by Alwyn Hamilton and claim a limited-edition art print.
Read an extract from Saint-Seducing Gold by Brittany N. Williams, the second book in the swashbuckling Forge & Fracture Saga.
Read an extract from Chaos King by Kacen Callender, the sequel to the New York Times bestselling Infinity Alchemist.
Alice Hunt discusses six poems that bring to life Britain’s Republican past, including from Sir Thomas Fairfax, John Milton and …
If you hold the status of an available, heterosexual millennial woman in 2024, you are probably an Ex-Wife. Claire Marie …
As our new collectors' edition of Golden Hill is published exclusively for Faber Members, Francis Spufford introduces what the New …
How do you adapt an iconic book into another medium? Illustrator Chris Mould shares his approach to transforming H. G. …
September’s Independent Bookshop of the Month is Sherlock & Pages in Frome, Somerset. We spoke to the co-owner, Luke Sherlock.
Peter K. Steinberg, editor of The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath, reflects on the journey of bringing this volume into …
On the publication of her book Songlight, the first part of a new dystopian YA trilogy, Moira Buffini introduces the …
Read an extract from Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott. In this passage, Thom Gunn dreads – and …
August’s Independent Bookshop of the Month is Book-ish in Crickhowell, Powys, winner of the 2024 British Book Award for Independent …
Who is Adam Dalgliesh? With the first episodes of Channel 5’s new Dalgliesh drama series now available to watch online, …
Sophie Harris, Senior Designer at Faber, shares her process for redesigning Banana Yoshimoto's back catalogue.
As we near the publication of his new collection, Drypoint, on the 1 August, poet Jamie McKendrick reflects on the …
As Lady in the Lake is released on Apple TV+, author Laura Lippman and editor Angus Cargill give an insight …
As we publish Paul Auster's postmodern classic as a Faber Members Edition, read the opening of The New York Trilogy.
Faber Art Director Pete Adlington shares his process for the design of our reissue of a guide to the pubs …
Our July Bookshop of the Month is Pages of Hackney, who have been supplying Lower Clapton with books for over …
Faber and the National Literacy Trust are launching a competition and event for schools to celebrate seventy years of Lord …
Read an extract from A Good Deliverance by Toby Clements – an epic and intimate tale of adventure, myth and …