Jan Morris: A Life is out 9 April 2026. Available to pre-order now. Sara Wheeler uncovers the complexity of the 20th-century icon to reveal a mosaic of contradictions. This is a portrait of an astonishing life, a scintillating story of longing, travel and never reaching home.

'It's like Shakespeare with vegetables.' Find out which book Laura Lippman is talking about over on the Faber Journal, where she's crafted her dream holiday reading list in homage to her latest novel, Murder Takes a Vacation 🧳 www.faber.co.uk/journal/read...

The Faber Sales department is looking to recruit a Key Account Manager (Maternity Cover) to oversee established trading relationships with high street retailers, supermarkets, and non-traditional bookselling accounts. Apply by 16 November. faber.co.uk/careers/key-account-manager-maternity-cover/

'One of the most brilliant British writers working today.’ Spectator 🎲 Who decides the rules of the games we play? 🎲 Our stunning proofs for Seven, the timeless new novel from Joanna Kavenna 📚 Out 15 January in the UK and 14 July in the US. linktr.ee/sevenbook

'A taut, elegantly written thriller that explores the primal terror of loss and the quiet fury of a woman determined to uncover the truth.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ We love this early reader review for Missing by E. A. Jackson, available to request now on NetGalley. www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

'I’ve always been fascinated by technology’s ability to delight and terrify us in equal measure.' Former tech journalist Paul Bradley Carr shares five books for people petrified (and occasionally a tiny bit excited) by Silicon Valley 📚 www.faber.co.uk/journal/read...

The pineapple is dead. A Certain Hunger by @chelseagsummers.bsky.social is back with a brand new cover. faber.co.uk/product/9780571372324-a-certain-hunger/

Exclusive: @lukeharding1968.bsky.social - author of Invasion: Russia's Bloody War - interviewed Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the Guardian. Luke's book Invasion is out now. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Adele Bertei didn't just witness the No Wave explosion—she ignited it. In No New York, she reveals the untold story of the boundary-pushing women who made New York's most radical cultural revolution possible. It's out in hardback & ebook on 26 March, you can pre-order it now. linktr.ee/nonewyork

Our Independent Bookshop of the Month for November is Kemps Books, in Malton, North Yorkshire. We spoke to owner Liz and perpetual employee of the month, Bookshop Dog Bruno. faber.co.uk/journal/independent-bookshop-of-the-month-kemps-books/

The Faber Sales department is looking to recruit a Key Account Manager to oversee established trading relationships with high street retailers, supermarkets, and non-traditional bookselling accounts. Apply by 16 November. faber.co.uk/careers/key-account-manager-maternity-cover/

Ben Markovits is on the latest episode of Shop Talk discussing The Rest of Our Lives 📚 open.spotify.com/episode/62d3...

'It occurred to me that I often find it easier to talk to other people in my head when they’re not around – you keep the conversation going, sometimes more honestly and lovingly than you can in their presence.' Ben Markovits joins fellow Booker shortlistees discussing their novels 👇

‘Feels less like reading a novel and more like sitting in a car beside a dear friend. . . a profoundly moving experience.’ Ann Patchett The Rest of Our Lives is shortlisted for the Booker Prize - we're looking forward to finding out the winner this evening ✨ www.faber.co.uk/book/9780571...

‘Surely the Spring, when God shall please, Will come again like a divine surprise To those who sit to-day with their great Dead, hands in their hands, eyes in their eyes At one with Love, at one with Grief: blind to the scattered things and changing skies.’ From ‘May, 1915’ by Charlotte Mew.

‘Deeply human. . . a beautifully quiet and devastating book.’ Sarah Jessica Parker The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits is shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize. ✨

‘Many of the clubs in this book started small, with young people at the heart of it. Find people who have the keys to space and ask them to open it up.’ To celebrate Youth Work Week, Emma Warren, explains how we can help support our youth clubs.

'A perfect Christmas crime story – atmospheric and chilling.' Elly Griffiths A party game goes horribly wrong in The Christmas Clue by @nicolaupson.bsky.social, the @waterstones.bsky.social Thriller Book of the Month for November 🎄 www.waterstones.com/book/the-chr...

Every month I forget I'm subscribed to @faberbooks.bsky.social (the best father's day gift!) - which means that every month opens with a glorious surprise. I can see why this one's shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize - Tom Paulin reinvents himself unimaginably well after a decade of silence

'Powerful.' Daily Telegraph 1990s New York: Tony Pellar – now lives in the subway tunnels, fighting for his sanity as his mind overflows with memories of Agatha, a woman he calls the Soul Snatcher. Our new edition of Orange Laughter by @leoneross.bsky.social is out now in ebook and audio.

'He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest.' Introducing Stop All the Clocks: Poems of Love and Loss a new selection of W. H. Auden's best loved poems. Out 20 November: linktr.ee/StopAllTheClocks

'The Confessions is a thrill ride from beginning to end.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review Former tech journalist Paul Bradley Carr imagines a world in which AI technology became conscious in The Confessions. Out now in paperback, ebook and audiobook 💥 linktr.ee/theconfessions

‘I love his cleverness, his wit, and his heart.' Nigella Lawson The Bonfire of the Insanities lights up a new chapter of governmental absurdity with mordant wit and caustic humour, from the inimitable @mrjohncrace.bsky.social. Out today 🔥 linktr.ee/BonfireoftheInsanities 🔥

Plunge into the mellow season’s melancholy with Hannah French's Autumn playlist: faber.co.uk/journal/classical-music-for-autumn-dr-hannah-frenchs-seasonal-soundtrack/ The Rolling Year: Listening to the Seasons with Vivaldi is out tomorrow 🍁🌻

‘He was my North, my South, my East and West’ Keep your eyes peeled for something coming tomorrow...

'A compelling novel about choices.' 'A real page turner, with an outcome that surprised me.' 'For fans of moral suspense.' Early readers review The Good Patient by Nilesha Chauvet, available to request now on NetGalley 📖 www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

Click below to see a Q&A with Ben Markovits, whose novel The Rest of Our Lives is shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize 👇

This Thursday, cinemas nationwide will be showing a rare and intimate edition of Letters Live, followed by a preview screening of The Thing with Feathers, based on the beloved novel by Max Porter. Book your tickets now at thethingwithfeathers.co.uk

We are very pleased that Sara Pascoe has won the inaugural Jilly Cooper Award at the Comedy Women in Print Prize 2025, for her novel Weirdo. thebookseller.com/news/sara-pascoe-wins-inaugural-jilly-cooper-award-at-the-comedy-women-in-print-prize-2025

If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry. The perfect gift for anyone in perpetual despair at Westminster’s shenanigans. The Bonfire of the Insanities is the new collection from beloved columnist, @mrjohncrace.bsky.social. Out this week 🔥 Order a signed copy: guardianbookshop.com/the-bonfire-...

'This is a taste of the eighteenth-century music that frequents my kitchen from September to November.' 🍁 🍂 Discover @hannahcfrench.bsky.social's Autumn playlist: faber.co.uk/journal/classical-music-for-autumn-dr-hannah-frenchs-seasonal-soundtrack

The Christmas Clue by @nicolaupson.bsky.social is the @waterstones.bsky.social Thriller of the Month for November! 🎄🎄🎄

'A page-turning, dystopian thriller about what occurs when humanity's darkest secrets are revealed to the world.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review There's still time to enter our book club giveaway with The Reading Agency for The Confessions by Paul Bradley Carr 👀 bookclubhub.co.uk/noticeboard/...

We are thrilled that On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland, has been shortlisted for the Blackwell's Book of the Year ✨ blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/col...

Your dream wedding didn't involve murder... Introducing Kiss Marry Kill – a pulse-racing new thriller about love, marriage and obsession from debut crime author, Yemi Dipeolu. Save the date for 23 April 2026 💌 linktr.ee/kissmarrykil...

✨We're thrilled to see Universality on the Waterstones Book Of The Year shortlist this morning.✨ A huge congratulations to Natasha Brown. www.waterstones.com/book/univers...

‘As I was writing, I was always writing not just to dwell or mope, but... to find a way through. Finding a vocabulary for difficult ideas and circumstances and realities is to find a way of conquering them.’ Read Isabelle Baafi on her prize-winning debut collection www.faber.co.uk/journal/edit...

'An extraordinarily gifted writer.' Sally Rooney I Want You to Be Happy is the funny and excruciatingly true novel of a new couple searching for connection and meaning. Missing the mark maybe, but still trying. Out May 2026. bookbaruk.com/product-page/i-want-you-to-be-happy-by-jem-calder

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Let's take a ride... My next book is coming out with @faberbooks.bsky.social. Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains will be published March 12 2026. Preorder links in profile, and lots more on the book and the remarkable stories people told me to come over the next few months...

‘There’s a place for us, goes Stephen Sondheim’s opening lyric from that evergreen LGBTQ+ anthem “Somewhere”. But with the best will in the world, I don’t think he meant Milton Keynes.' Introducing Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains by @grindrod.bsky.social, out 12 March 2026.

LLIAM, what do I want for dinner? LLIAM, how can I get a better job? LLIAM, should I kill my husband? Will AI keep your secrets? That depends on what you did.... The Confessions by Paul Bradley Carr is out next week in paperback 👀

'''The Tories keep saying we flip-flop', Stamer squeaked. 'So maybe the best thing we can do is to flip-flip. At least that shows we're being consistent.''' The Bonfire of the Insanities from @mrjohncrace.bsky.social is out soon. Pre-order a signed copy here: guardianbookshop.com/the-bonfire-...

‘Looks like we’re getting a white Christmas after all. Isn’t that beautiful?’ In Nicola Upson's festive crime story, Anthony and Elva Pratt arrive in a snowy English village to run a murder mystery game – and instead discover a real murder. The Christmas Clue, out now in hardback ✨

'When you're writing just for yourself, you let your guard down completely.' Listen to Shaun Usher on The Verb, discussing how the private and the public intersect in diary writing: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002ldc9 Diaries of Note is out now 📚

'Collected in a landmark new edition, the late Irish writer’s work is attuned to wonder, replete with humanity and rooted in the tragedies of history.' The Poems of Seamus Heaney was reviewed in the Observer by Fintan O'Toole this weekend: observer.co.uk/culture/book...

'It’s both a thrill and a privilege – a thrivelige, if you will – to be published by Faber for the eighth time.' We are delighted to announce 'master of fiction' John Lanchester's new novel, Look What You Made Me Do: www.thebookseller.com/rights/john-...

A lovely piece in the Observer from Booker-shortlisted author Ben Markovits about attending an NFL game at Wembley with his daughter 👇

John Crace was at Faber this morning signing copies of The Bonfire of the Insanities 🔥 The new collection from the Guardian's beloved political sketch writer is out next week. Pre-order your signed copy here, while stocks last: guardianbookshop.com/the-bonfire-of-the-insanities-9781783353439

What are you afraid of? Try our Halloween reading list to find stories to chill yourself to the core, with classic books by Celia Fremlin and Robert Aickman, alongside modern horrors. www.faber.co.uk/journal/hall...