Faber is delighted to support and sponsor the annual PEN Pinter Prize over the next three years. Now in its 16th year, the ...

Faber Academy provides writing courses, manuscript assessments and mentoring programmes across a wide range of disciplines including fiction, poetry and memoir. We ran our first course in 2008, and ...

The Sonic Youth frontman takes us from a 1960s childhood rock ’n’ roll epiphany, through the subversive world of 1970s punk ...

National Poetry Day is an occasion for everyone across the UK to celebrate poetry – in classrooms, bookshops and libraries, ...

Cavaliers, roundheads, MPs, clergymen, ballad-writers, playwrights, poets and ordinary men and women: many turned to poetry during the turbulent 1650s. The shocking execution of Charles I led to the ...

When writing a novel, I’m always trying to find ways to get closer to my characters and their world. These paths of approach are often non-literary—in the case of Intermezzo, I watched a lot of chess ...

If you hold the status of an available, heterosexual millennial woman in 2024, you are probably an Ex-Wife. Claire Marie Healy writes about the brutal relatability of reading Ursula Parrott’s 1920s ...

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour A dissident is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill and has been cured, he will be released. He refuses. Sharing his cell is a real lunatic who believes ...

I was fifty by the time I dared to write a novel. Consequently, I had built up an enormous internal shopping list of things I thought my first novel should contain, if I ever did dare to write it.

With exclusive band interviews and over a decade of deep research, renowned music journalist Jan Gradvall explores the secret to ABBA’s success in The Book of ABBA: Melancholy Undercover. As an ABBA ...

We were deeply saddened to learn about the recent passing of Michaela DePrince and her mother, Elaine DePrince. Both women were extraordinary in their own ways and showed great courage and generosity ...

At Faber, we know that true publishing excellence lies in representing all societies and communities in our books and our work. We believe in championing equality, in challenging discrimination of any ...