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Jan 10, 2025 | 
faber.co.uk | Imogen Whiteley
Tell us the story of your shop. If we had a penny for how many times we’ve heard from others, ‘Hey, I’ve always dreamed of opening up my own bookshop!’ well, we’d have a few pennies. Bàrd Books exists because Vicki decided that she didn’t want to keep dreaming anymore; if she was going to make a move, it was now or never. As with anything, if you fail, at least you tried. If you don’t try, then you’ll definitely fail.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
faber.co.uk | Imogen Whiteley
By Faber Editor, 24 July 2024 Faber has pre-empted Michael Amherst’s The Boyhood of Cain, a poignant debut novel about a boy on the precipice of adulthood, struggling to understand how he might give and deserve love. Associate Publisher Louisa Joyner and Editor Aisling Brennan acquired UK & Commonwealth (exc Canada) rights from John Ash at CAA. Publication is scheduled for 13 February 2025. Riverhead will publish in the US.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
faber.co.uk | Imogen Whiteley |Jon Savage
The idea was that each person would play what they thought was the heaviest record and everyone else would listen. While his peers put on songs by Black Sabbath and Deep Purple ‚Äď ‚Äėwhich I just thought were pish,‚Äô he sighs ‚Äď Savage played The Velvet Underground‚Äôs 1968 slab of noise, Sister Ray. ‚ÄėThey all fled,‚Äô he chuckles.
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May 17, 2024 | 
faber.co.uk | James Vincent |Imogen Whiteley
On Tuesday, 20 February 2024, ChatGPT went mad. Users around the world reported that the chatbot was responding to even the simplest of queries with cryptic and incomprehensible messages. One person who tried to create a business plan was advised to ‘anticipate not the sodden shill but a rein of consequential affordance’.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
faber.co.uk | Imogen Whiteley |Peter Pomerantsev
In the summer of 1941, Hitler ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Britain was struggling to combat the powerful Nazi propaganda machine. However, inside Germany, there was one notable voice of dissent from the very heart of the military machine – Der Chef, a German whose radio broadcasts skilfully questioned Nazi doctrine.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
faber.co.uk | Imogen Whiteley
Tell us the story of your shop. We’re an indie bookshop based in Edinburgh’s seaside community of Portobello, open since July 2019. The premises previously housed a fishing tackle shop for thirty years, and prior to that it was an old co-operative (a nice story here is that a local whose grandparents used to work – and met – at the co-op in the 1920s once got in touch to send us an old photograph from that time featuring the shop front and the co-op’s employees.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
faber.co.uk | Imogen Whiteley
Faber Editor, 5 March 2024 Faber has announced Universality, the second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Assembly, Natasha Brown. Publisher Alex Bowler acquired UK & Commonwealth + EU (exc Canada) rights from Emma Paterson at Aitken Alexander in a six-way auction. Rights have also been sold in the US (Random House), Canada (Knopf), Germany (Suhrkamp), France (Grasset), Spain (Anagrama) and Norway (Cappelen Damm).
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
faber.co.uk | Tania Branigan |Imogen Whiteley
By Tania Branigan, 20 February 2024 A shorter version of this article was originally published on 11 January 2023. It seemed almost impossible to pick five books to help understand China, so the chance to add a few more from the last year was too good to resist. Here is a new and bigger selection of titles that have illuminated the vast, diverse, complex and dynamic country that is China.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
faber.co.uk | Imogen Whiteley
A bird gags sweetly on the new green dealas I work my way through ineffable instructionson how to live this poor and shabby lifeas performance. How to pack it, sell it? There is masochism in a decade making outunder the quilt of an unholy governmentwho never seem to end, who commandthe dimensions of our poorness. We grow stunted in contaminated soil,eking into the bloodstream, bringingan omnipresent confusion into the socialconsciousness. How wholly are we to be pressed?
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
faber.co.uk | Imogen Whiteley
Midwinter spring is its own seasonSempiternal though sodden towards sundown,Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire,The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches,In windless cold that is the heart’s heat,Reflecting in a watery mirrorA glare that is blindness in the early afternoon. And glow more intense than blaze of branch, or brazier,Stirs the dumb spirit: no wind, but pentecostal fireIn the dark time of the year.
