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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 14h
🍁 Autumn Reading Picks from Faber staff 🍂 Stuck for your next read? Take a look at 17 reading recommendations from our team for this autumn: www.faber.co.uk/journal/what...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'Kingsolver’s virtuoso novel of loss, social class and music. A dazzling follow-up to Demon Copperhead plunges us into the grief, yearning and disappointments of a once-promising pianist in rural Tennessee' Ahead of publication week, The Financial Times reviews Partita by Barbara Kingsolver 💫
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We're looking for a non-fiction editor at Faber on a 12-month, fixed-term maternity cover. Find out more: www.faber.co.uk/careers/edit...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'Partita is a Tess of the d’Urbervilles for the 21st century and it is packed with just as much feeling and heart' The Times on Partita by Barbara Kingsolver, out next Tuesday 💫 www.waterstones.com/book/partita...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What is a sacred oath? Language dipped in gold? Letters carved in cathedral stone? The alphabet carried on the breath of God? Our Poem of the Week is ‘II: Harold’ by Simon Armitage, from the Poet Laureate’s new pamphlet: www.faber.co.uk/journal/poem...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'These books all continue to inspire my search for some new, previously unnoticed layer of detail that deepens, heightens, telescopes the experience of living.' Nadia Beard shares a reading list on the books that inspired The Melody of Things, alongside a playlist. www.faber.co.uk/journal/read...
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Nicola Upson 🏳️‍🌈 @nicolaupson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
2500 books, 2 hours 55 minutes and 4 Sharpies later! Wonderful day at CPI Books signing this beautiful indie bookshops paperback of #TheChristmasClue, out next month @faberbooks.bsky.social
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
'I don't sit around waiting for the muse, I go to work' Barbara Kingsolver talks to The Sunday Times about her difficult childhood, life in Appalachia after the opioid crisis – and The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'Such careful, beautiful thinking and writing about fear and pain and love and consolation. I loved it' Sarah Moss Our green-foiled proofs of Tending by Katherine May are here! Looking glorious in the sunshine on the Faber Office rooftop 🌱🌞
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We're thrilled to be welcoming Roddy Doyle to Faber for 2027 with his unforgettable new novel, The Yellow Corridor 🎉 faber.co.uk/journal/faber-acquires-the-new-novel-from-roddy-doyle-for-autumn-2027/
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'I read this book in 3 hours' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A perfect Christmas present' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Sheer perfection' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Early readers love Do You See What I See? by Peter Swanson, out today in hardback. Add this festive crime novella to your Christmas list now 🎅 www.waterstones.com/book/do-you-...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
‘Barbara Kingsolver's latest novel is an incredible exploration of wasted potential and the beauty that can be found in the midst of disaster' Sunday Times Support your local indie bookshop by pre-ordering our exclusive indies edition of Partita by Barbara Kingsolver ✍️ linktr.ee/partitaindies
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
'Partita wrestles with the questions that have fuelled her whole career – namely, who is art for, what makes it good, and what can it actually accomplish?' Casey Cep profiles and interviews Barbara Kingsolver for The New Yorker 📖 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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What Barbara Kingsolver Believes the Novel Can Do
One of the country’s most popular novelists writes what she calls socially engaged fiction. In Barbara Kingsolver’s new book, she considers the role of art—and who it’s for.
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On Radio 4's weekly discussion programme, Adam Rutherford is joined by the poet and writer Lavinia Greenlaw to talk about On Difficulty (and Poetry), her exploration of why difficult experiences, ideas and works of art can be so rewarding. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Start the Week - Carlo Rovelli: complexity and value - BBC Sounds
Physicist Carlo Rovelli, poet Lavinia Greenlaw and playwright James Graham.
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🎫 Order your signed copy of What a Time to Be Alive by Marina Hyde from one of the below bookshops for the chance to win a year's AAA membership to The Rest is Entertainment! 🎫 @portybooks.bsky.social Toppings York Backstory London House of Books and Friends And the Faber website
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
‘A true romance’ Clare Carlisle ‘In Château Rouge, time unfolds as a succession of small, sensuous pleasures’ Literary Review Château Rouge, the beautiful new novel from Amit Chaudhuri, captures modern Paris as a place of beauty, intrigue, community, and complexity.
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Join Sebastian Barry on tour this Autumn to celebrate publication of his critically acclaimed new novel The Newer World 📚 linktr.ee/sebastianbar...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sebastian Barry is on the latest episode of BBC Radio 4's Take Four Books discussing three influences for The Newer World. Listen here 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Take Four Books, Sebastian Barry
The Irish writer speaks about his latest novel, The Newer World, and its three influences.
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
‘Burn and Rave swerves around the bends of the human heart, and then miraculously delivers you home. It left me inspired, consoled and thankful’ Samantha Harvey Burn and Rave from the #1 bestseller Max Porter. Publishing 11 February 2027. Pre-order now: www.waterstones.com/book/burn-an...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Wintering and Enchantment comes a heartfelt meditation on the secret labour of care. Introducing Tending by Katherine May, designed by Holly Ovenden and available to pre-order now in hardback 🌱 www.faber.co.uk/journal/anno...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Introducing Women and Children, the phenomenal new novel from Lillian Fishman, the critically acclaimed author of Acts of Service. Women and Children will publish Spring 2027. Cover to be revealed and proofs in now.
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
'Inspiring, tragic and deeply moving’ TLS 'Every page has pleasures from top to tail' The Times 'Blazes with authenticity and poignancy' Financial Times The Newer World by Sebastian Barry is out now 📚 www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How do we lose touch with the things we love? And is it possible to find our way back to them? These questions drive Nadia Beard on a quest to reclaim the dreams of her childhood in The Melody of Things, published today 🎶 www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
'A wonderful atmospheric setting, interesting flawed characters, plenty of unexpected twists' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Early Reader Review Peter Swanson's new Christmas murder mystery Do You See What I See? is out two weeks today in hardback ❄️ www.waterstones.com/book/do-you-...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Presenting the cover for Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger, the new novel from Kazuo Ishiguro. Publishing 9 March 2027, pre-order a signed copy now from Waterstones and selected indies. Cover design by Pete Adlington @designbyfaber
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
'A near-miracle of storytelling' Sara Collins, Guardian The Newer World by Sebastian Barry is the Guardian's Book of the Day ✨ www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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The Newer World by Sebastian Barry review – a near-miracle of storytelling
The third in a loose American trilogy follows the epic journey of a formerly enslaved man in the aftermath of the civil war
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
'Livia's story absolutely absorbed me. This is a novel about grief, love, longing, ambition and the choices that shape a life' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Early Reader Review You fell in love with Demon's story. Now, meet Livia. Four weeks to go until the publication of Partita by Barbara Kingsolver.
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🎶 ‘So graceful and bittersweet and true’ Vincenzo Latronico 🎶 ‘A paean to the creative act and a manifesto for the joys of looking to our past as well as our future’ Orlando Whitfield The Melody of Things: On Returning to Forgotten Joys by Nadia Beard publishes this week.
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Join @lukeharding1968.bsky.social on tour this Autumn where he'll be discussing his new book Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest. linktr.ee/luke_harding
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Introducing Killer App: The Rise of Telegram and the Battle for the Future of the Internet by @darrenloucaides.bsky.social A thrilling, globe-trotting story of the enigmatic billionaire Pavel Durov – 'Russia’s Zuckerberg’ – and his platform, Telegram. Out 5 November: faber.co.uk/journal/fabe...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A closer look at our exclusive indies edition of Partita by Barbara Kingsolver, with a gold and teal colourway, printed edges and a letter from the author. Available to pre-order now 💫 linktr.ee/partitaindies
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Sebastian Barry will be at Queen's Park Book Festival this Sunday to celebrate his his latest novel The Newer World, following the life of Tennyson Bouguereau as he journeys to find meaning and belonging in the aftermath of the American Civil War. queensparkbookfestival.co.uk/products/seb...
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Sebastian Barry: The Newer World
Twice winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award, Laureate for Irish Fiction 2018-21, winner of the Independent Booksellers Award, the Walter Scott Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize,…
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Introducing Starting Out, the new novel from Ben Markovits, Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Rest of Our Lives ‘Markovits excels at family relationships: the things said and left unsaid; the weight of experience that forms character’ TLS Starting Out publishes 8 April 2027.
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
👔 Welcome to The Club 👔 You thought you understood how the patriarchy runs our country. It’s so much worse than you think. The Club: Adventures in the New Patriarchy by Amelia Gentleman publishes 25 March 2027.
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Simon Armitage was on the Today programme this morning talking about his poetic retelling of the Bayeux Tapestry. This limited-run pamphlet is available for preorder here: www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
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The Bayeux Tapestry: A Poetic Retelling
The Bayeux Tapestry comes alive in this poetic retelling by the Poet Laureate. A limited-run poetry pamphlet by Simon Armitage.
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Simon Wroe spoke to Sara Cox about his new novel Ghost Month for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club - listen here 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
'I knew as I made my way home that there was no home. All the old things . . . were gone for ever.' 📚 'A masterly work of historical witness and moral reckoning' Observer Sebastian Barry's The Newer World is published in the UK next week and in Ireland on Thursday.
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We are very pleased that two Faber poets, Bernard O'Donoghue and Tom Paulin have been shortlisted for this year's Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. Congratulations to all the shortlisted poets. arrowsmithpress.com/walcott
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Here are some of our favourite translated novels that we've been delving into for Women in Translation Month. We'd love to hear what stories from around the world you've been reading in August 📚
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
'As a result of reading Howl’s Moving Castle over and over again I made Callie, our romantic heroine, a milliner' Find out which other works of fiction inspired Charlotte Vassell's Caius Beauchamp Mysteries over on the Faber Journal 📚 www.faber.co.uk/journal/read...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Ghost Month by @simonwroe.bsky.social is a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick! Hear more about Simon's new novel from 55.45 here 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Jo Whiley - Radio 2 Book Club recommendations! - BBC Sounds
Jo chats to Joe Haddow from the Radio 2 Book Club about what you should be reading!
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
'Bold, bright and haunting. A beautiful celebration of the best of humanity in the face of a brutal future' Josh Silver Win copies of Songlight by Moira Buffini for your book club before our giveaway closes on 1 September 👀 bookclubhub.co.uk/noticeboard/...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Introducing a fresh and contemporary look at one of history's greatest thinkers, Saint Augustine from Costa-award winning author, Bart Van Es. This is biography at its most original. True Fire is out on 11 February and proofs are almost here... ❤️‍🔥 linktr.ee/truefirebook
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
'Perhaps you've already noticed little things, strange details. A shadow not attached to anything. A face in a window which might be a trick of the light. They come at dusk. Today.' Ghost Month by @simonwroe.bsky.social is out now in hardback, ebook and audio. linktr.ee/ghostmonth
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
'Dark and compelling . . . brilliant' Bill Browder 'War reporting at its finest' Serhii Plokhy 'More gripping than a thriller' Andrey Kurkov Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest by @lukeharding1968.bsky.social is out today in hardback, ebook and audio. linktr.ee/luke_harding
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
'Illuminating' Sathnam Sanghera 'Masterfully and beautifully written' Jonathan Powell 'A lively account' Irish Times These Divided Isles: Britain and Ireland, Past and Future by @philipstephens.bsky.social is out now in paperback. www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Early finished copies of Partita by Barbara Kingsolver have arrived 💫
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
'After the Pulitzer-winning Demon Copperhead, a retelling of David Copperfield set in Appalachia, Kingsolver returns with a quieter tale of midlife longing and regret.' The Guardian selects Partita as one of the coming season's fictional highlights ✨ www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It may still be four months to go until Christmas, but it's only one month until you can get your hands on Do You See What I See?, Peter Swanson's cracking new Christmas murder. Treat yourself and pre-order now 🎄 www.waterstones.com/book/do-you-...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
'This book has cured my Hunger Games hangover' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review Win copies of Songlight by Moira Buffini for your book club with the @readingagency.bsky.social. Entries close 1 September. bookclubhub.co.uk/noticeboard/...
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