Francis Spufford is Unapologetic

Unapologetic is a brief, witty, personal, sharp-tongued defence of Christian belief, taking on Dawkins’ The God Delusion and Christopher Hitchens’ God is Not Great.

Barney Hoskyns’ Led Zeppelin Top 30

Trampled Under Foot: The Power and Excess of Led Zeppelin, by Barney Hoskyns is out this month via Faber. To accompany its release, Barney has compiled a list of his own Zep favourites, which will, we’re sure, create some healthy debate…

Junot Díaz on how he writes…

On the publication of his collection This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Díaz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, talks about how he writes novels and short stories and the inspiration behind them.

Event review: The Faber Social does poetry

Ben Parker reports on the latest Faber Social, where poetry took centre stage.

Kazuo Ishiguro: Master in the Art of Narration

In December 2010, Kazuo Ishiguro accepted an invitation from Richard Skinner to speak to the students on the six-month ‘Writing a Novel’ course at the Faber Academy.

Kirsty Gunn on The Big Music

In this work of fiction, Kirsty Gunn has created something as real as music or as a dream. Not so much a novel as a place the reader comes to inhabit and to know, The Big Music is a literary work of undeniable originality and power.

P.D. James on Death Comes to Pemberley

Death Comes to Pemberley is a brilliant new ‘sequel’ to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice – but one with a deadly twist. P. D. James shares her appreciation for Austen, and discusses the challenge of taking such a beloved work of fiction in a wholly unexpected direction…

A journey to India’s forgotten frontier.

Jonathan Glancey on Nagaland.

Walking Home, with Simon Armitage

In 2010 Simon Armitage walked the Pennine Way back to the place of his birth. As well as making notes for his book Walking Home writing poems and doing readings along the way, he took a video camera with him to record the journey. Here are some highlights from his walk.

An interview with Harriet Sergeant

Harriet Sergeant’s Among the Hoods is an extraordinary story of one woman’s friendship with a South London gang.

Watch an interview with the author.

Watch the trailer for The Big Music, by Kirsty Gunn

The hills only come back the same: I don’t mind… begins Kirsty Gunn’s The Big Music, a novel that takes us to a new understanding of how fiction can affect us. Watch a film inspired by the novel, narrated by Brian Cox and filmed by Gary M Gowans.

Lindsey Hilsum introduces Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution

The inside story of Gaddafi’s regime from the award-winning Channel 4 and CNN journalist.

Sixty Years in Sixty Poems

A small selection – six poems – from Jubilee Lines, a new poetry anthology celebrating the Queen’s sixty years on the throne, edited by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.

Discover: The Wartime Secrets of London’s Grand Hotels

During World War II The Ritz, the Savoy, the Dorchester and Claridge’s teemed with spies, con-artists, deposed royals and the exiled governments of Europe. Matthew Sweet discusses the extraordinary events that unfolded under the reinforced ceilings of London’s grand hotels.

On Hip-Hop, New Jersey & Sound

T. M. (Tom) Wolf’s Sound is an extraordinary debut – a moving and evocative story set on the Jersey Shore, enriched further by the layout of the text: set out as a musical score, the reader ‘hears’ the story – a hip-hop soundtrack runs throughout.

Peter Carey and The Chemistry of Tears

‘Somehow, going around the internet, I came across a mechanical duck invented by Jacques de Vaucanson in France in the eighteenth century … a wonderful duck, with its imitation of life, which also poses huge questions…’

Istanbul: Journey to Another World

‘It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn’t know it.’

And so begins the new novel from the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name is Red, his first since winning the Nobel Prize.

Here Comes Everybody

James Fearnley is a founding member of The Pogues. Thirty years on, with the band now part of music folklore and still touring, we have Here Comes Everybody, a warts-and-all, riotous history. But how would it go down with the band?

Elliot Perlman reads from The Street Sweeper

On the crowded streets of New York City there are even more stories than there are people passing each other every day… only some of these stories survive to become history.

Richard King on How Soon is Now?

Richard King’s How Soon Is Now? is a landmark survey of the record labels that make up the backbone of the independent music industry and the hugely inspirational, eccentric, impulsive and visionary figures who created them.

Elliot Perlman introduces The Street Sweeper

Elliot Perlman’s latest novel is written on an epic scale – spanning six decades and moving from Chicago to New York, Warsaw to Melbourne, and Auschwitz.

The Spider King’s Daughter

Chibundu Onuzo, author of The Spider King’s Daughter on getting published by Faber and Faber.