Faber and Faber was founded in 1929 and is one of the UK’s leading independent publishing houses. The firm boasts a historic catalogue featuring 12 Nobel Laureates, six Booker Prize-winners and some of the foremost literary figures of the twentieth century.
Faber has never been cowed by the ultramodern: under the direction of TS Elliot, works of poetry, biography, art and architecture monographs, essays and avant-garde ecology featured prominently; and this pioneering spirit is evident today in new ventures such as Fiber Finds, Faber Digital, the Faber Academy and the Faber Factory brand.
Nicholas Slopen has been dead for months. So when a man claiming to be Nicholas turns up to visit an old girlfriend, deception seems the only possible motive.
Yet nothing can make him change his story.
From the secure unit of a notorious psychiatric hospital, he begins to tell his tale: an account of attempted forgery that draws the reader towards an extraordinary truth - a metaphysical conspiracy that lies on the other side of madness and death.
Strange Bodies takes the reader on a dizzying speculative journey that poses questions about identity, authenticity, and what it means to be truly human.
Trailer directed by Edwin Hasler, Soft City Films
This is the sponsorship trailer for Chris Ewan's number 1 bestselling thriller Safe House, broadcast on the Universal Channel around Major Crimes in spring 2013, and made by Hatch TV.
When Rob Hale wakes up in hospital after a motorcycle crash he is told that Lena, the woman he claims was travelling with him, doesn't exist. The woman he describes bears a striking resemblance to his recently deceased sister, Laura, but has he really only imagined her?
Rob sets out to find the answers to who Lena is and where she has gone. He is aided by Rebecca Lewis, a London-based PI, who has come to the Isle of Man at the behest of his parents to investigate his sister's suicide. But who is Rebecca really and how did she know his sister?
Together Rob and Rebecca follow the clues to discover who took Lena. In doing so they discover that even on an island where most people know each other, everyone hides a secret, and that sometimes your best option isn't to hide but to stay and fight.
Up on the North Yorkshire moors, the Hartle family is about to have a life-changing year.
Ann and Joe, with more than thirty years of marriage and two sons between them, are torn between giving up and pressing on with their struggling farm. Max, their older son, is set to inherit the farm and his wife Primrose has news to share, but is he ready for these new responsibilities? Their younger son, Bartholomew, escaped to the south as soon as he could, building a new life for himself with his girlfriend Ruby. But when tragedy strikes he is forced to return home - and must come to terms with his past, in order to create a future.
Filled with both the joys and losses of ordinary life, Homecoming is a big-hearted drama about how a family falls apart and comes back together again from a hugely talented new writer.
Schroder is a lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit.
Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections, said of the novel that 'the measure of Gaige's great gifts as a storyteller is that she persuades you to believe in a situation that shouldn't be believable, and to love a narrator who shouldn't be lovable. Seldom has such a daring concept for a novel been grounded in such an appealing character.'
Shall We Gather At The River tells the story of Enoch O'Reilly, the great flood that afflicts his small town, and the rash of mysterious suicides that accompany it. Charlatan, Presleyite and local radiovangelist, O'Reilly is a man haunted by the childhood ghosts of his father's sinister radio set ... a false prophet destined for a terrible consummation with that old, evil river.
A suicide mystery and a rich patchwork narrative of legend, myth, occult inheritance, eco-conspiracy, viral obsession, airwaves, water and death, Shall We Gather At The River is a spellbinding piece of work, marked by prose that is by turns haunting, poetic and blackly humourous. With shades of Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides, of Twin Peaks and Wisconsin Death Trip, Shall We Gather At The River is a novel that will further cement Murphy's reputation as one of the most original and exciting novelists to emerge in recent years.
When Lara was twelve, her father died in a helicopter crash. The family had grown up used to him being absent: a successful plastic surgeon, he only came to London for two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street Clinic. But home, for their father, wasn't Earls Court: it was Belfast, where he led his other life . . . Narrated by Lara, nearing forty and nursing her dying mother, All the Beggars Riding is the heartbreaking portrait of a woman confronting her past from novelist Lucy Caldwell. http://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/author/lucy-caldwell
Nadeem Aslam's fourth novel, The Blind Man's Garden, set, like its predecessor in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11, and is already garnering terrific reviews: writing in the Independent, Leyla Sanai said of it: 'Once or twice a year, a book stuns me. Nadeem Aslam's fourth novel, The Blind Man's Garden, has done just that. My expectations were high: Aslam has won a clutch of prizes. But the power of this extraordinary novel is still jarring.'
And James Lasdun in the Guardian wrote: 'by any measure The Blind Man's Garden is an impressive accomplishment; a gripping and moving piece of storytelling that gets the calamitous first act in the "War on Terror" on to the page with grace, intelligence and rare authenticity.'
In this short film, Nadeem explains what he set out to do in the book.
The war on terror through the lens of devastating personal experience in this stunning novel from the author of The Wasted Vigil and Maps for Lost Lovers. A searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11 - a story of war, of one family's losses, and of the simplest, most enduring human impulses. Jeo and Mikal, foster-brothers from a small Pakistani city, secretly enter Afghanistan: not to fight with the Taliban, but to help and care for wounded civilians. But it soon becomes apparent that good intentions can't keep them out of harm's way... From the wilds of Afghanistan to the heart of the family left behind - their blind father haunted for years by the death of his wife, by the mistakes he may have made in the name of Islam and nationhood, Jeo's steadfast wife and her superstitious mother - Aslam's prose takes us on an extraordinary journey, through war, tragedy, love and brotherhood. Here he discusses how he wrote the novel, and the themes behind it.
An edge-of-your-seat thriller written with great humanity and humour, following an elderly American on the run across Norway with a kid in danger. Eighty-two years old, and recently widowed, Sheldon Horowitz has grudgingly moved to Oslo, with his grand-daughter and her Norwegian husband. When Sheldon witnesses the murder of a woman in his apartment complex, he rescues her six-year-old son and decides to run. Pursued by both the Balkan gang responsible for the murder, and the Norwegian police, he has to rely on marine training from over half a century before to try and keep the boy safe. Against a strange and foreign landscape, this unlikely couple, who can't speak the same language, start to form a bond that may just save them both. Compelling and sophisticated, it is both a chase through the woods thriller and an emotionally haunting novel about ageing and regret.
Here Derek B Miller reads from the novel and talks about Sheldon.
'My life begins at the Y...' Abandoned as a newborn at the doors of the local YMCA and then bounced between foster homes, Shannon eventually finds stability in the home of Miranda, a single mother with a daughter of her own. But as Shannon grows, so do her questions. Will she ever belong? Who is her true family? And why would her parents abandon Shannon on the day she was born?
Y is the debut novel by Canadian author Marjorie Celona.
Former World in Action journalist Stuart Prebble has followed the story of the Conqueror, Britain's most famous nuclear submarine, from the Falklands War, where it sank the Belgrano, to the Cold War, where it was involved in the most dangerous and untold exploits against the USSR. In his book Secrets of the Conqueror Stuart Prebble at last can tell the incredible true story of Cold War espionage and adventure.
'Exile and separation were very, very good for me.' A candid and illuminating career interview with Irish novelist and short story writer Edna O'Brien on publication of her memoir Country Girl (Faber, October 2012, http://bit.ly/Rct8Oh).
Recorded in her London home, the interview -- which details her trepidation at writing her memoirs, the controversy surrounding her debut novel The Country Girls, her colourful life in 1960s London and much more -- is conducted by her Faber editor Lee Brackstone.
Animated trailer for CREWEL by Gennifer Albin. Find out more about the book and download the song 'It's a Lie' for FREE at http://on.fb.me/OHI6i1. CREWEL is a new YA novel that takes you to a world of secrets and intrigue where a girl with talent will thrive ... or be destroyed. The soundtrack, 'It's a Lie' is an original song by 14-year-old Roisin O'Hagan.
CREWEL is out now. Buy it at: http://faber.co.uk/catalog/crewel/9780571282890
Jeet Thayil discusses his Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Narcopolis with writer and journalist Stuart Evers -- a rich novel that delves into the opium dens and sprawling underworld of 1970s Bombay. More about the book: http://bit.ly/RBJKSQ
Mackenzie Crook's charming children's book The Windvale Sprites, illustrated by the author, was inspired by the great hurricane of 1987. Here he talks about where the idea came from.
Former World in Action producer Stuart Prebble has been following the story of the Conqueror submarine -- which sank the Belgrano in the Falklands War -- for thirty years. In the prices he has discovered hidden Cold War secrets which he reveals in his book Secrets of the Conqueror
"Speak now before it is too late, and then hope to go on speaking until there is no more to be said. Time is running out, after all. Perhaps it is just as well to put aside your stories for now and try to examine what it has felt like to live inside this body from the first day you can remember being alive until this one." Paul Auster introduces Winter Journal, his "book of autobiographical fragments" in this short film.
'Sometimes ... I wished I wasn't doing it.' A candid and illuminating interview with Irish novelist and short story writer Edna O'Brien on publication of her memoir Country Girl (Faber, October 2012, http://bit.ly/Rct8Oh). She also discusses some of the controversy around her debut novel The Country Girls, and just how her home became such a fixture of the party scene in 1960s London.
Orange Prize-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver, author of the Lacuna and The Poisonwood Bible, introduces her novel Flight Behaviour, published November 2012.
Ronald's new novel, published this November, is Havisham, which tells the story of one of Dickens' best-known characters from her own point of view. We know her from Great Expectations as the unhappy bride jilted at the last moment, still wearing her wedding dress years amid the ruins of her wedding breakfast, but how did she come to that state? What was she like as a young woman, when she was the daughter of a wealthy brewer with the world seemingly at her feet?
In this short interview, Ronald Frame talks about his novel and his fascination for the character who inspired it.
John Gordon Sinclair's debut thriller, Seventy Times Seven, is -- as John Mullan said in the Independent - 'a fast-moving, wise-cracking story about two Republican brothers from Newry caught up in the Troubles; about supergrasses, double agents, paramilitary brutality and SAS summary justice'. In this short film, he introduces the book.
Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux trailer
Safe House by Chris Ewan sponsors Major Crimes
Homecoming: Susie Steiner on her debut novel
Amity Gaige on the inspiration for Schroder
Trailer for Shall We Gather at the River by Peter Murphy
All The Beggars Riding -- Lucy Caldwell talks about her new new novel
Nadeem Aslam introduces The Blind Man's Garden
Nadeem Aslam talks about writing his novel The Blind Man's Garden
Derek B Miller reads from and discusses Norwegian by Night
Marjorie Celona discusses her debut novel, Y
Orhan Pamuk introduces Silent House
Secrets of the Conqueror submarine
Book Trailer for CREWEL by Gennifer Albin
Interview with Jeet Thayil on Narcopolis
Mackenzie Crook on how the great storm of 1987 inspired his children's book
Secrets of the Cold War -- from the Conqueror submarine
Paul Auster introduces Winter Journal
Interview with Edna O'Brien [short]
Edna O'Brien reading from her memoir Country Girl
Barbara Kingsolver introduces her new novel Flight Behaviour
Ronald Frame introduces Havisham
John Gordon Sinclair introduces Seventy Times Seven
Junot Díaz on The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
