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FaberBooks
by FaberBooks
Faber and Faber is one of the great independent publishing houses in London. We were established in 1929 by Geoffrey Faber and our first editor was T. S. Eliot. We are proud to publish prize-winning fiction and non-fiction, as well as an unrivalled list of modern poets and playwrights. Among our list of writers we have five Booker Prize winners and twelve Nobel Laureates, and we continue to seek out the most exciting and innovative writers at work today.
Episodes
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Touching Time: Doireann Ní Ghríofa x The Victorian Hand Project
In this event, Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Helen Victoria Murray use Said the Dead as the basis for their discussion about how tactility and the symbolism of the hand can bring us closer to history, both as historians and creative practitioners. Their conversation touches on themes of archive work…
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Sample: Inherit The Truth by Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Sample: Inherit The Truth by Anita Lasker-Wallfisch by FaberBooks
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Audio Trailer: Inherit The Truth by Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Audio Trailer: Inherit The Truth by Anita Lasker-Wallfisch by FaberBooks
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Voice Memo 9 - Rat Park (pg 120-121)
Voice Memo 9 - Rat Park (pg 120-121) by FaberBooks
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Voice Memo 47 - Bystander Effect (pg 210-211)
Voice Memo 47 - Bystander Effect (pg 210-211) by FaberBooks
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Voice Memo 23 - Cavepeople (pg 163-164)
Voice Memo 23 - Cavepeople (pg 163-164) by FaberBooks
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Anna Burns | Milkman
Hear Anna Burns reading from and discussing her Booker Prize-winning novel Milkman.
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Charlotte Rampling & Lambert Wilson read Paris by Hope Mirrlees
This reading of Hope Mirrlees’s Paris is from a Dead Poets Live production with Charlotte Rampling and Lambert Wilson, recorded in Paris in 2019 and directed by James Lever. © the Estate of Hope Mirrlees
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New Cemetery: Audiobook Extract
New Cemetery: Audiobook Extract by FaberBooks
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John & Paul: Audiobook Extract
John & Paul: Audiobook Extract by FaberBooks
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Small Things Like These: Audiobook Extract
Small Things Like These: Audiobook Extract by FaberBooks
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Outline: Audiobook Extract
Outline: Audiobook Extract by FaberBooks
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Demon Copperhead: Audiobook Extract
Demon Copperhead: Audiobook Extract by FaberBooks
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Klara and the Sun: Audiobook Extract
Klara and the Sun: Audiobook Extract by FaberBooks
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Listen to Simon Armitage reading 'Nest Box' from Dwell
Listen to Simon Armitage reading 'Nest Box' from Dwell
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The Unnamable (Sound Art)
The Unnamable (Sound Art) by FaberBooks
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My Word: from the Spiritual Diary of Dr Dee by Camille Ralphs
Camille Ralphs reads My Word: from the Spiritual Diary of Dr Dee, a sequence of poems from her debut collection, After You Were, I Am (Faber & Faber, 2024), which is now available in audiobook, paperback and ebook. 'An astonishing adventure . . .This is poetry that delights in etymology and...
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Yobbo - From - Look - We - Have - Coming - To - Dover - Audio - 2-mins
Yobbo - From - Look - We - Have - Coming - To - Dover - Audio - 2-mins by FaberBooks
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The - Bell - Jar - Audio - 2-mins
The - Bell - Jar - Audio - 2-mins by FaberBooks
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - Chapter One Opening
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - Chapter One Opening by FaberBooks
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding - Audiobook
Lord of the Flies by William Golding - Audiobook by FaberBooks
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Nestor Kornblum - Overtone Chant
Nestor Kornblum - Overtone Chant by FaberBooks
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Rites of Passage by William Golding – Audio Extract
Listen to an extract from the Booker Prize winning Rites of Passage originally read by William Golding in 1989 and re-mastered in 2022.
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The Waste Land audio extract read by Edoardo Ballerini
Thomas Stearns Eliot, poet, critic, publisher, was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888 and died in London on 4 January 1965. In 1922, he published The Waste Land, a poem that exerted the single greatest influence on English poetry in the last century, and whose centenary will be marked by...
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Black British Mothers Matter by Baroness Doreen Lawrence (read by Debra Michaels)
Listen to the essay 'Black British Mothers Matter', written by Baroness Doreen Lawrence and read by Debra Michaels. Introduced by Marcus Ryder. This is an exclusive extract from the audiobook Black British Lives Matter, a wide-ranging and urgent essay collection highlighting the vital benefits…
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Black British Historians Matter by Lenny Henry and David Olusoga
Listen to 'Black British Historians Matter' by Lenny Henry and David Olusoga, read by Lenny Henry and Ben Onwukwe. This is an exclusive extract from the audiobook Black British Lives Matter, a wide-ranging and urgent essay collection highlighting the vital benefits that Black Britons bring to...
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Pincher Martin - Audio Book Extract
Experience a shipwrecked sailor's psychic disintegration into 'a naked madman on a rock' by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies. An hour on this rock is a lifetime. Christopher Martin, the sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer, is stranded upon a rock in the middle of the...
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The Inheritors - Audio Book Extract
Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning vision of prehistory on the cusp of a new age, from the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies. This was a different voice; not the voice of the people. It was the voice of other. When spring comes, the people leave their...
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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath – audiobook extract
An extract from the audiobook of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, read by Maggie Gyllenhaal. ‘A modern classic.’ Guardian ‘A near-perfect work of art.’ Joyce Carol Oates I was supposed to be having the time of my life . . . Working as an intern for a New York fashion magazine in the summer of 1953,...
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Mayflies by Andrew O' Hagan Audio Extract
'An immensely engaging writer: wry and witty, and insightful.' Sunday Times 'A vivid and meticulous writer.' Observer From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong friendship. Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In…
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Britain Alone Audio Book Extract
A magisterial and profoundly perceptive survey of Britain’s post-war role on the global stage, from Suez to Brexit. In 1962 the American statesman Dean Acheson famously charged that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a new role. Nearly sixty years later the rebuke rings true again....
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Excavate! Audio Book Extract
A definitive insight into the ever-influential world of Mark E. Smith and the Fall, bringing together previously unseen artwork, rare ephemera and handwritten material, alongside essays by a slate of fans. To 50,000 Fall Fans: please buy this inspired & inspiring, profound & provocative…
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Nervous Conditions Audio Book Extract
Set in Rhodesia in the 1960s, almost twenty years before Zimbabwe won independence and ended white minority rule, the novel’s heroine, Tambudzai Sigauke, embarks on her education. On her shoulders rest the economic hopes of her parents, siblings, and extended family, and within her burns the…
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Outline Audio Book Extract
The first in Rachel Cusk's critically-acclaimed trilogy, shortlisted for the Folio Prize and the Goldsmith Prize and longlisted for the IMPAC Prize. Read by Kristin Scott Thomas. Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing...
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Bessie Smith Audio Book Extract
'The most vivid evocation of Bessie Smith I have ever read' - Ian Carr, BBC Music '[Bessie Smith] showed me the air and taught me how to fill it ... she's the reason I started singing, really' - Janis Joplin Bessie Smith: singer, icon, pioneer. Bessie Smith was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned...
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Klara and the Sun Audio Book Extract
Klara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017. AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel...
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'Public Library, 1988' from Soho by Richard Scott
SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and gay shame. Examining...
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Nicola Upson reads from The Dead Of Winter
DECEMBER 1938 Storm clouds hover once again over Europe Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St Michael’s Mount – and the unexpected arrival of a world-famous film star, in need of sanctuary – interrupt the festivities....
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Amelia Gentleman on The Windrush Betrayal
Journalist of the Year 2019 Amelia Gentleman talks about The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment, her acclaimed book on the Windrush scandal longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the Orwell Prize. ‘It is impossible to overstate the importance of this...
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Sam Riviere: Epigram [63]
Welcome to After Fame – an ambitious and resonant engagement with the epigrams of the Roman poet Martial, which completes the loose trilogy of Sam Riviere’s process-derived works. It was Martial who first used the term ‘plagiarism’ in its modern sense as a kind of literary theft. Here, the notion...
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Melissa Harrison's The Stubborn Light of Things
Melissa Harrison's The Stubborn Light of Things is Apple's top-rated nature podcast. Here is a selection of extracts from the series, which Melissa recorded in the spring, summer and autumn of 2020. It ties in with her book, The Stubborn Light of Things, a nature diary published in November 2020....
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Randomly Moving Particles
Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with subjects that include migration, placement, loss, space exploration and current British and American...
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Joe Dunthorne: Worship
O Positive is the long-awaited debut collection of poetry from Joe Dunthorne, and it has all the appeal of his widely acclaimed fiction. Adopting a sunny, genial tone, Dunthorne lures the reader to darker places, exploring death and dread, failure and regret – the ‘lounge of our suffering’.…
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Ten Days in Harlem by Simon Hall: Prologue
Simon Hall reads from the opening of his history book Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s. Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. 'Hall has captured this catalytic moment like...
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Ten Days in Harlem by Simon Hall: The Stage Is Set (1)
Simon Hall reads from the opening of his history book Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s. Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. 'Hall has captured this catalytic moment like...
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Ten Days in Harlem by Simon Hall: The Stage Is Set (2)
Simon Hall reads from the opening of his history book Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s. Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. 'Hall has captured this catalytic moment like...
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Ten Days in Harlem by Simon Hall: The Stage Is Set (3)
Simon Hall reads from the opening of his history book Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s. Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. 'Hall has captured this catalytic moment like...
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Ten Days in Harlem by Simon Hall: The Stage Is Set (4)
Simon Hall reads from the opening of his history book Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s. Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. 'Hall has captured this catalytic moment like...
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Ten Days in Harlem by Simon Hall: The Stage Is Set (5)
Simon Hall reads from the opening of his history book Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s. Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. 'Hall has captured this catalytic moment like...
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Nicola Upson reads from Sorry For The Dead
Nicola Upson reads an extract from Sorry for the Dead, which is Longlisted for the CWA Sapere Books Historial Dagger 2020. Summer, 1915: a young woman falls to her death at Charleston Farmhouse on the Sussex Downs. But was it an accident? Twenty years later, Josephine Tey is faced with the...
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Faber and Faber is one of the great independent publishing houses in London. We were established in 1929 by Geoffrey Faber and our first editor was T. S. Eliot. We are proud to publish prize-winning fiction and non-fiction, as well as an unrivalled list of modern poets and playwrights. Among our list of writers we have five Booker Prize winners and twelve Nobel Laureates, and we continue to seek out the most exciting and innovative writers at work today.
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