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.

John Lanchester talks about the characters in Capital

John Lanchester here discusses the many characters in his 2012 novel Capital, set on one street on the brink of the financial crash of 2007.

Less is More

According to Doug Johnstone…

I’ll keep this short, because that’s the point. Less is more, and all that.

William Gay, 1941-2012

Faber’s Angus Cargill remembers writer William Gay, (a firm Bookhugger favourite), whom Faber published in the UK, who died recently…

Capital: The Trailer

The wonderful animated trailer for John Lanchester’s new novel Capital, produced and created by the brilliant George Wu at design collective Household…

Keeping Up with the Germans…

Keeping Up with the Germans interweaves memoir and history to look at ten historical encounters between English and German people from the last 200 years.

Listen to an interview with the author, Philip Oltermann.

The ‘If You Prefer a Milder Comedian Please Ask for One!’ Podcast

Stewart Lee’s new book is based on just one stand-up show, in which Stewart Lee examines the mechanics of comedy and the stand-up’s craft, as he explains in this interview with comedy critic and Resonance FM DJ Ben Thompson.

Pop Culture’s Addiction to its Own Past

Could it be that the greatest danger to the future of our music culture is… its past?

An extract from Simon Reynolds’ Retromania, out this month in paperback via Faber.

An extract from In the Orchard, the Swallows

A tale of tenderness in the face of great and corrupt power, In The Orchard, The Swallows from author Peter Hobbs is a heartbreaking novel written in prose of exquisite stillness and beauty.

Discover The Emperor of Lies

Now published in over twenty languages, Steve Sem-Sandberg’s award winning The Emperor of Lies is one of the great Holocaust novels of the twenty-first century by one of Scandinavia’s most admired authors. Read an extract.

Biography is Dead…

The grand literary biography, alongside the Booker winner, used to be the jewel on an editor’s list. But those days seem to have gone… but according to Faber’s Neil Belton, every once in a while a biographer comes along with a fascinating yet overlooked life, and the potential is clear to all.

Faber’s Cultural Highlights of 2011 – Part Three

The third instalment of Faber’s end-of-year cultural round-up, in which more Faber authors look back and reveal what’s impressed them the most in 2011, whilst also looking forward to what lies in store in 2012… from the likes of Sarah Hall, Alan Glynn, John Lanchester and more.

The Music of 2011

Music journalist and author Simon Reynolds gives us his best of 2011, with some known and not-so-known names in the mix…

Faber’s Cultural Highlights of 2011 – Part Two

The second instalment of Faber’s end-of-year cultural round-up, in which ten more Faber authors look back and reveal what’s impressed them the most in 2011, whilst also looking forward to what lies in store in 2012…

Faber’s Cultural Highlights of 2011 – Part One

Faber asked their authors to tell them a) what most impressed them in 2011, and b) what are they particularly looking forward to in 2012. If you agree – or even disagree – feel free to let us know in the comments…

Solar System: The Book of the App

Solar System has been downloaded about 80,000 times in 10 months. It won The Bookseller 2011 Digital Innovation of the Year as well as Best App of 2011. But, if you were not lucky enough to have an iPad, you were stuck. Not any more.

One Very Funny Group of People, by Mark Yarn

One of the enduring myths of the 1990s is that grunge musicians were a bunch of miserable bastards…

P. D. James shares her appreciation for Jane Austen

In this extended 30-minute interview the author discusses the challenge of taking, Pride and Prejudice, a beloved work of fiction, in a wholly unexpected direction.

P.D. James in conversation

P. D. James introduces and discusses Death Comes to Pemberley