By Faber on September 28, 2012
Nicola Upson’s fourth novel to feature Josephine Tey, Fear in the Sunlight, follows Tey’s book ‘Young and Innocent’ as it’s turned into one of Hitchcock’s 1930s classics. Here Nicola Upson talks about writing Hitchcock and researching the film for her own mystery novel.
Posted in Contemporary Fiction, Historical fiction | Tagged crime and thriller
By Faber on July 23, 2012
The second part of an interview with Deborah Bull, who was a Principal Dancer with The Royal Ballet, on her new book The Everyday Dancer, in which she presents an honest and vivid portrait of a dancer’s every day.
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction | Tagged video interview
By Faber on July 20, 2012
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.
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction | Tagged gangs, Interviews
By Faber on July 18, 2012
A unique perspective from behind the footlights, The Everyday Dancer is a vibrant and compelling picture of a life in the day of a dancer. Watch an interview with author Deborah Bull on her life as a dancer and her career with the The Royal Ballet.
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction | Tagged dancing
By Faber on June 22, 2012
Drifting House is the dazzling story collection from Korean-American author Krys Lee. Set in the US and both Koreas, featuring characters struggling to adjust to alien cultures, the stories are often unsettling. In this short interview filmed on her trip to London, Krys tells us more about the stories and her writing.
Posted in Contemporary Fiction | Tagged contemporary fiction, short stories
By Faber on May 3, 2012
From the frontline of cutting-edge scientific research, Professor Robin Dunbar’s new book The Science of Love and Betrayal is a brilliant and sparkling exploration of the extraordinary nature of romantic love. The book tackles some of the most fundamental questions of human behaviour, including – why do we as a species pairbond when few other mammals do? What are the evolutionary advantages of monogamy over promiscuity? And much more.
Posted in Non-fiction | Tagged love, relationships, romance
By Faber on April 26, 2012
Professor Robin Dunbar, director of the Institute of Cognitive and Behavioural Anthropology at the University of Oxford, introduces his latest book, The Science of Love and Betrayal. In under four minutes, we asked him to explain why we kiss, and the appeal of high heels and laughter (not necessarily together). He also responds to the question: Does romantic love evaporate under the scrutiny of evolutionary psychology?
Posted in Non-fiction | Tagged love, relationships, romance
By Faber on April 13, 2012
Chibundu Onuzo, author of The Spider King’s Daughter on getting published by Faber and Faber.
Posted in Contemporary Fiction, Fiction | Tagged writing
By Faber on February 14, 2012
A Q&A with American author Keija Parssinen whose debut novel The Ruins of Us is set in Saudi Arabia in 2005. It tells the story of an American woman who discovers her Saudi husband of 25 years has a second wife, which triggers her struggle to retain her hard-earned place as a wife, a mother and a woman in a culture that she can never be fully accepted in. Read carefully as we’ll be giving away 3 copies later this week!
Posted in Contemporary Fiction | Tagged family, relationships
By Faber on January 27, 2012
A dazzling debut story collection from Korean-American writer Krys Lee.
Posted in Contemporary Fiction, Fiction | Tagged Immigrant, Korea, short stories
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