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Oct 10, 2024 | 
faber.co.uk | Gary Younge |Tim Woodall
White people also deserve a sense of history that is accurate, honest, antiracist and inclusive. So what would White History Month look like? The Nation, 21 February 2007, New YorkWhatever happened to James Blake? He is probably the most famous bus driver ever. And yet when he died aged eighty-nine in March 2002, the few papers that bothered to note his passing in an obituary ran just a few hundred words of wire copy and moved on.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
faber.co.uk | Tim Woodall
Kick off the holiday season in literary style by joining us for our inaugural Faber Members Summer Fair. On Thursday 18 July 2024 we’re opening up our offices at The Bindery in Hatton Garden, London, to welcome Members and their friends for an afternoon and evening of fun workshops, recommendations for summer reading, a pop-up bookshop and special author readings.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
faber.co.uk | Tim Woodall |Aniefiok Ekpoudom
By Faber Editor, 18 March 2024 Get to Aniefiok Ekpoudom, the author of Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain, who kindly humours us with rapid responses to fifteen entirely frivolous questions.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
faber.co.uk | Tim Woodall
Intermezzo, the fourth novel from the international bestselling writer Sally Rooney, will be published by Faber on 24 September 2024. Alex Bowler, Publisher, acquired UK & Commonwealth and audio rights from Tracy Bohan at the Wylie Agency. Knopf will publish in Canada and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and apparently unassailable.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
faber.co.uk | Tim Woodall |Matthew S. Hollis |Lavinia Greenlaw
Faber is delighted to announce that Lavinia Greenlaw has been appointed Poetry Editor. She will take up the position on 22 January, succeeding Matthew Hollis, who announced earlier in the year he was stepping back from the role. Lavinia Greenlaw was born in London. She studied seventeenth-century art at the Courtauld Institute, and was the first artist in residence at the Science Museum.
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
faber.co.uk | Francis Spufford |Tim Woodall
Why alter history? It’s something you can only do in fiction, and there’s the beginning of an answer in itself. It is, apart from anything else, a way of celebrating fiction’s power to summon a setting out of thin air, out of mere words, only applied not to a place but to an entire timeline.
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
faber.co.uk | Tim Woodall
By Faber Editor, 6 October 2023 Faber announces the winner of the Faber New Play Award as Carmen Marcus’s And The Earth Opened Up Under Her. The Faber New Play Award, which offers publication to coincide with the premiere, and a prize of £5,000, was granted to the best play written by an unpublished playwright under the WGGB New Play Commission Scheme.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
faber.co.uk | Tim Woodall |Kazuo Ishiguro
By Faber Editor, 14 September 2023 ‘I’ve built a reputation over the years as a writer of stories, but I started out writing songs.’ Kazuo IshiguroFaber is delighted to announce Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain, a unique publication collecting the lyrics written by the Nobel Prize winner since 2007 for the award-winning jazz singer Stacey Kent.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
faber.co.uk | Jonathan Sumption |Tim Woodall
In 1975, when I was twenty-six years old, I abandoned the career as an academic historian on which I had embarked five years before in order to retrain as a barrister. Although I enjoyed academic life, I have never regretted that decision. One reason is that my interest in history and my pleasure in historical scholarship persisted. I resolved to write about an enormous subject, something that would occupy my leisure hours for almost the rest of my life.
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
faber.co.uk | Louise Doughty |Tim Woodall
In the early stages of a book I have to go hunting for it and A Bird in Winter was no exception. I had already visited Norway and Iceland before lockdown, but once restrictions lifted, I knew I needed to follow Bird’s flight from Birmingham to Scotland, Orkney, Shetland . . . it isn’t just about description, it’s about seeing something that sets the sparks going. This picture was taken in a guesthouse somewhere, with my rucksack propped up against a wall as I studied a map and plotted Bird’s route.
