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'Fíona Scarlett pulls you in heart first to meet characters you feel you've known forever and who walk away with you after the book is read.' Jo Browning Wroe
Out 13 February, May All Your Skies Be Blue is available to pre-order now 💗
Start your week with one of our favourite word definitions from A Year of Living Curiously . . .
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Is a distaste for Brussels sprouts actually backed up by science? Find out in this extract from A Year of Living Curiously 🧑🎄
Discover a book of daily shots of knowledge that will lift your spirits and expand your mind in a flash, out now.
This is Gertrude Stein as she was when nobody was watching
‘Think of the Bible and Homer, think of Shakespeare and think of me.’
Gertrude Stein
Admirers called her a genius, sceptics a charlatan: Stein remains one of the most confounding – and contested – writers of the twentieth century. In this literary detective story, FrancescaWade delves into the creation of the Stein myth. Wade uncovers the origins of Stein's radical writing, and reveals new depths to the storied relationship which made it possible.
This is Gertrude Stein as she was when nobody was watching: captivating, complex and human. Out May 2025.
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'You must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.'
These three iconic novels by era-defining Nobel Laureate Samuel Beckett are being relaunched for a new generation, with introductions from Colm Tóibín, Claire-Louise Bennett and Eimear McBride.
Individually they are strange, hilarious, sometimes terrifying novels – together they chart the artistic epiphany of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary writers.
Out 13.03.2025
Louise Doughty introduces A Bird in Winter
Who best to introduce A Bird in Winter than Louise Doughty herself?
The Sunday Times bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard and Platform Seven sets the scene for her tenth novel.
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The In Crowd by Charlotte Vassell
'A total joy to read.' Harriet Tyce
DI Caius Beauchamp sits down watch a drunken performance of The Importance of Beering Earnest in a fringe theatre. One vomit-stained deceased audience member later, Caius is investigating two cold cases: a yuppie CEO of a family firm who scarpered with the pension fund and a missing schoolgirl who disappeared from her windswept, crumbling Cornish boarding school fifteen years before...
Charlotte Vassell returns to the world of the hyper-privileged and morally unscrupulous in The In Crowd, out now in paperback 💚
Introducing Your Life is Manufactured 🔨
From Tim Minshall, the award-winning and internationally-renowned expert, comes an illuminating romp through the world of manufacturing and its transformational influence on our lives – and the world around us.
There exists a nearly invisible, awe-inspiring global system of manufacturing that enables virtually every aspect of our existence. The things we surround ourselves with – from everyday items like toilet roll and the clothing we wear to smartphones, bicycles and everything in between – take surprising and often mind-boggling journeys to reach us.
Your Life is Manufactured reveals the seismic impact manufacturing has had on our lives and the natural world, exploring how it could offer us a path to a truly sustainable, more equitable future. Out on 13 February 2025 and available to pre-order now: linktr.ee/yourlifeismanufactured
Small Things Like These will be released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on 1 November 2024.
'When you first read the book, was there a particular image, detail or moment that immediately convinced you that it should be brought to the screen?' Question from Natasja, Belgium.
To celebrate the new movie adaptation of Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These, we asked Faber Members to submit questions for the film's director Tim Mielants and writer Enda Walsh. Small Things Like These will be released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on 1 November 2024.
'Which scene did you find the most difficult to perform?' Question from Janine, São Paulo.
To celebrate the new film adaptation of Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These, we asked Faber Members to submit questions for the film's stars, Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh, who play married couple Bill and Eileen Furlong.
Small Things Like These will be released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on 1 November 2024.
Introducing Hidden Portraits: The Untold Story of Six Women Who Loved Picasso by Sue Roe.
Out in March 2025 and available to pre-order now:
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