Literary Long Reads
Enjoy longer pieces from the Faber Journal, including commissioned essays, introductions and long-read extracts from our books.
Eight years after the first publication of Laura Dockrill’s warm, funny poetry collection celebrating the wonder of mums – and …
Read an exclusive extract from Lynch on Lynch edited by Chris Rodley, the definitive work on the career of the …
Emily Rhodes explores the pleasures of rereading and just what it is that compels us to return to familiar favourites …
Read an extract from Platform Seven by Sunday Times bestselling author Louise Doughty, out now in paperback.
Read an essay from Gary Younge's new collection, Dispatches from the Diaspora, about what a White History Month would mean, …
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.
If you hold the status of an available, heterosexual millennial woman in 2024, you are probably an Ex-Wife. Claire Marie …
Read an extract from A Good Deliverance by Toby Clements – an epic and intimate tale of adventure, myth and …
For just one day in February 2024, ChatGPT went mad. James Vincent considers the surprising results of the AI’s dalliance …
Read an extract – ‘Hierophany’ – from Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age by Katherine May, the bestselling author …
Read the opening of Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance, by Jeremy Eichler.
Read Chapter One of Mistletoe Malice by Kathleen Farrell, a rediscovered classic and ‘a horribly delicious snapshot of post-war family …
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 …
How do you write a city that hasn’t decided what it’s going to be next? In the latest of our …
Is it possible to write – or read – about true crime and violence without exploiting its victims? Writer Katie …
Angus Cargill, Publishing Director and editor of Faber’s graphic novels list, picks some of his favourite titles from this fast-growing …
Read an extract from Nell Zink's Avalon, a wild, blackly funny story of female emancipation and the journey to one’s …
Read the new foreword to David Cavanagh's The Creation Records Story by John Harris, exclusive to the Faber Journal.
This spring Faber moved into its new home at The Bindery in Hatton Garden, an historic part of London. Matthew …
To celebrate the publication of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, Lorrie Moore’s first novel in fourteen …
Richard T. Kelly gives an insight into the research that went into his soulful, sweeping novel set against the backdrop …
Writer Jessica White takes on the complicated history of Dickensian tales, from unauthorised contemporary adaptations to Barbara Kingsolver's Women's Prize-winning …
On the occasion of the publication of the first English translation of her literary masterpiece, Cousins, read an exclusive short …
Read an extract from Audrey Magee's exquisitely crafted novel, The Colony, out in paperback on 3 February.
Read an extract from Charlotte Vassell's bitingly satirical crime novel, The Other Half.
Read the gripping first chapter of Peter Swanson’s thriller, The Kind Worth Killing, in anticipation of the page-turning sequel, The …
'It was like the book already had me, and was leading me exactly where it wanted.' Read an extract from …
In celebration of the centenary of The Waste Land, author and Faber Poetry Editor Matthew Hollis writes about the enduring …
Read the gripping story of Catherine Dior's wartime role in the French Resistance in this extract from Justine Picardie's Miss …