Features
Browse features about Faber authors and book culture, from the stories behind new titles to why we love book shops.
To celebrate publication of It Used to Be Witches, author Ryan Gilbey selects some of his favourite queer films.
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 …
Francesca Wade, author of the luminescent Gertrude Stein, shares her top five Stein-inspired cultural highlights, from operas, recordings and novels …
Blitz: The Club That Created the Eighties is the history of the legendary club by much-loved presenter and Blitz attendee …
Our Bookshop of the Month is Juno Books – a friendly feminist and queer community bookshop in Chapel Walk in …
In this new series the Faber Sales team share their insider tips for exploring global cities, catered to the literary …
Artist, lecturer and researcher Damon Herd explores the ubiquity of graphic novel memoirs, and how comics are uniquely positioned to …
To celebrate publication of Bad Friend: A Century of Revolutionary Friendships, author Tiffany Watt Smith has chosen some of the …
Introducing the four narrators of Lost Love Songs, the new novel from award-winning author Ingrid Persaud, now in paperback.
Our Bookshop of the Month is Bookbag, Exeter – an independent bookshop opened by Charlie and Malcolm Richards in December …
Ben Markovits new book The Rest of Our Lives is out now. Here, the author talks about his favourite road …
Read an extract from Things I Learned While I Was Dead by Kathryn Clark, a poignant YA sci-fi debut about …
Read an exclusive extract from Room on the Sea, a tender love story from the bestselling author of Call Me …
Michael Amherst, author of The Boyhood of Cain, on some places that inspired his debut novel.
Alwyn Hamilton introduces the four narrators of her new glittering fantasy YA thriller, The Notorious Virtues.
Jonny Pelham outlines his process for redesigning three of Beckett’s most important novels – Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable.
As Kazuo Ishiguro's masterpiece celebrates two decades in print, find out more about the story and watch the author discuss …
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. 2025 marks the 70th anniversary of the first …
Our Bookshop of the Month is Novel, Sheffield, an independent bookshop which began trading in 2022 as a series of …
Eight years after the first publication of Laura Dockrill’s warm, funny poetry collection celebrating the wonder of mums – and …
As Your Life is Manufactured by Tim Minshall is published, we take a look at how books are made with …
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 …