An extract from Death Comes To Pemberley, by P.D. James

In a pitch-perfect recreation of the world of Pride and Prejudice, P. D. James elegantly fuses her lifelong passion for the work of Jane Austen with her talent for writing detective fiction….

Jarvis Cocker Goes Back to School

To celebrate the publication of Mother, Brother, Lover – a compilation of song lyrics spanning 30 years – on 6 October 2011 Jarvis Cocker (Faber’s recently appointed new Editor-at-Large) paid a visit to his old secondary school, The City School in Sheffield, to meet the students…

Undercover with Nicholas Rankin: Ian Fleming’s Commandos

In his new book, Nicholas Rankin gives us the true story of Ian Fleming’s Second World War unit – 30 Assault Unit – from which, in his rank of Commander Ian Fleming RNVR, was born the real-life inspiration for James Bond.

My Father’s Fortune

‘It took him quite a long time to accept that I had some other qualities, abilities, to write and so forth, which in his eyes never really made up for lack of sporting ability, but eventually we found some sort of common ground.’

Daljit Nagra explores Britishness…

Daljit Nagra’s remarkable debut marked the arrival of a thrilling new voice in poetry. In Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!!, his second volume, his writing shows every bit the same verve and excitement that made his first book an unmissable event.

DBC Pierre on On Fugu & Late Capitalism

‘Patrons come to touch the shadow of death.’

Discussing Edward Thomas and Gothic Fiction

George Miller discusses gothic fiction with Richard T. Kelly, author of the spine-chilling The Possessions of Doctor Forrest, and talks to Matthew Hollis about his new book, Now All Roads Lead to France, about the final years in the life of war poet Edward Thomas.

A Different Climate

Marek Kohn, author of Turned Out Nice: How the British Isles will Change as the World Heats Up, asks if we should be bothered about our descendants in the future, do we even care about the future, and if we do, how do we save nature, and us?

Who is Lilly Bere?

Earlier this month we posted a great Q & A with Sebastian Barry, author of the Booker longlisted On Canaan’s Side, and his Faber editor, Angus Cargill. Now we have a couple of films of the author himself, filmed at his home in County Wicklow, Ireland.

‘Moscow, We Have a Problem!’

Francis Spufford’s Red Plenty is a book as ambitious as Sputnik, as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant – and as different from what you were expecting as a glass of Soviet champagne. But, what’s it about?

Sebastian Barry: On Canaan’s Side

On Canaan’s Side is the hugely enjoyable new novel from Sebastian Barry, author of the Costa-winning The Secret Scripture. The novel has been longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Read an interview with the author.

An extract from On Canaan’s Side

Sebastian Barry’s On Canaan’s Side, a story of family, conflict, the Irish diaspora and the secret history of America told by Lilly Bere of the Dunne family, has been longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize.

Stefan Merrill Block on The Storm at the Door

The Storm at the Door’s central characters are the author’s grandparents, including a grandfather that the author never knew. A grandfather whose battles with depression would mirror those of the novelist many decades later. Read on for an interview with Stefan Merrill Block.

Jarvis Cocker: Mother, Brother, Lover

Faber is publishing Jarvis Cocker’s Mother, Brother, Lover: Selected Lyrics in October 2011. In an interview with Faber Publishing Director Lee Brackstone, Jarvis discusses lyric-writing, his inspiration, habits and thoughts on publishing his first collection.

Win a Faber music book bundle! [closed]

The generous folks at Faber have given three musically-inclined Bookhugger readers the chance to win three shiny and, er, banging, titles!

The Good of the Novel: Part Three

We complete our three-part discussion on The Good of the Novel with the panel discussion held at the London Review Bookshop.

Nicky Wire on Lipstick Traces

A cult classic, Greil Marcus’s history of punk is this month published in a new edition with a Foreword from Nicky Wire, who explains why the book was a pivotal text for him and his Manic Street Preachers bandmates …

The Good of the Novel: Part Two

Our The Good of the Novel discussion continues with pieces from three book bloggers: novelist and playwright Elizabeth Baines, aka FictionBitch, avid reader and blogger Paperback Reader, and bookseller and blogger Catherine Hawley, aka Juxtabook.

The Good of the Novel: Part One

What makes a novel a novel? How does the language used in a novel create a world different from that of drama or poetry? What kinds of truth can be told uniquely by the novel? And what role can the literary critic play in the egalitarian age of the internet?

The Possessions of Doctor Forrest

The tradition of the Gothic novel comes alive once again in this spine-chilling fable – the story of a disappearance, a diabolical bargain, and a terrifying series of physical transformations.

Watch a video of author Richard T. Kelly read an extract from, and discuss, his dark creation.

An Accommodation

An Andrew Love/Dave Pescod film adapting a poem by Simon Armitage for the Huddersfield Film Festival.

Andrew Martin on The Somme Stations

Andrew Martin is the author of the Jim Stringer series, detective novels set during Edwardian times that began with The Necropolis Railway in 2002. The seventh and latest instalment is The Somme Stations…