Klara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.

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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 Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love? A thrilling feat of world-building, a novel of exquisite tenderness and impeccable restraint, Klara and the Sun is a magnificent achievement, and an international literary event.

Klara and the Sun 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 over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from the place. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves, their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face great a great loss.

Outline is the first book in a short and yet epic cycle – a masterful trilogy which will be remembered as one of the most significant achievements of our times.

'Outline succeeds powerfully. Among other things, it gets a great variety of human beings down on the page with both immediacy and depth; an elemental pleasure that makes the book as gripping to read as a thriller... A stellar accomplishment.' James Lasdun, Guardian

Outline 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 desire for “personhood,” to no longer be part of such an “undistinguished humanity.”

Immediately acclaimed by Alice Walker and Doris Lessing, the book has come to be considered one of Africa’s most important novels of the twentieth century.' Madeleine Thien

Nervous Conditions Audio Book 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 the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth: a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently. Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has news.

Mayflies is a memorial to youth’s euphorias and to everyday tragedy. A tender goodbye to an old union, it discovers the joy and the costs of love

Mayflies by Andrew O' Hagan Audio Extract

A spoken word short story by Willy Vlautin, frontman of the band Richmond Fontaine, and author of the novels Lean on Pete, Northline and The Motel Life. 

The story features characters from Lean on Pete, and music by Richmond Fontaine. 

A Motorcycle for a Horse by Willy Vlautin

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, Esther Greenwood is on the brink of her future. Yet she is also on the edge of a darkness that makes her world increasingly unreal. Esther’s vision of the world shimmers and shifts: day-to-day living in the sultry city, her crazed men-friends, the hot dinner dances . . .

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath’s only novel, is partially based on Plath’s own life. It has been celebrated for its darkly funny and razor sharp portrait of 1950s society, and has sold millions of copies worldwide.

ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'

'As clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing.' New York Times Book Review

Reader responses:

'Plath's underrated humour shines through this startling account of 1950s 'normality'.'

'Very readable, often darkly funny, and feels fresh.'

'Plath's masterpiece . . . It's amazing how relevant this book still is.'

'So enthralling . . . So thought provoking, so vivid, that it's thoroughly engrossing.'

'I just couldn't put it down.'

'Ever better than I expected.'

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath – audiobook 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 winter cave, foraging for honey and shoots, bulbs and grubs, the hot richness of a deer's brain. They awaken the fire to heat their naked bodies, lay down their thorn bushes, and share pictures in their minds.

But strange things are happening - inexplicable scents, sounds, and violence - and, suddenly, unimaginable creatures are half-glimpsed in the forest; an upright new people of bone-faces and deerskins. What the early people don't know is that their season is already over ...

'An earthquake in the petrified forests of the English novel.' Arthur Koestler

'A tour de force ... Genius.' Daily Telegraph

'Alarming, eye-opening, desolating, mind-invading and unique.' New Statesman

'Powerful and provocative ... Each time I revisit The Inheritors I find something new.' Penelope Lively

The Inheritors - 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 Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the brutal cold, and the aching terror of his isolation. To drink there is a pool of rainwater; to eat, seaweed and anemones, preyed upon by feathered reptiles. As he descends into the abyss of his consciousness, weathering lightning strikes of memory, Martin must try to assemble the truth of his fate - piece by terrible piece.

'A work of genius.' Philippa Gregory

'The utmost inventiveness ... No reader will forget the world it reveals.' Kingsley Amis

'Wizardry of the first order.' Observer

Pincher Martin - Audio Book Extract

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 that Black Britons bring to society and the crucial importance of eradicating systemic racism. Edited by Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder and featuring contributions from Doreen Lawrence, David Olusoga, Dawn Butler, Anne-Marie Imafidon and many others. Find out more about the book: faber.co.uk/product/9780571368495-black-british-lives-matter/

Black British Mothers Matter by Baroness Doreen Lawrence (read by Debra Michaels)

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 society and the crucial importance of eradicating systemic racism. Edited by Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder and featuring contributions from Doreen Lawrence, David Olusoga, Dawn Butler, Anne-Marie Imafidon and many others. Find out more: faber.co.uk/product/9780571368495-black-british-lives-matter/

Black British Historians Matter by Lenny Henry and David Olusoga

'A Scattering' is the title poem from Christopher Reid's Costa Book award-winning collection of the same name. It's also included in Reid's Selected Poems, which is an essential introduction to the work of a richly resourceful poet engaged in what he himself once described as 'provisional negotiations with untidy life'.

A Scattering: A Poem by Christopher Reid

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 publication and events throughout the coming year.

Listen to Edoardo Ballerini read the opening lines from The Waste Land, taken from the audio book of the Centenary Edition available from 6 January 2022.

The Waste Land audio extract read by Edoardo Ballerini

Listen to an extract from the Booker Prize winning Rites of Passage originally read by William Golding in 1989 and re-mastered in 2022.

Rites of Passage by William Golding – Audio Extract

Distinguished broadcaster, embryologist and Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine at University College, London Lewis Wolpert talks to us about How We Live and Why We Die, and reveals how cells provide the answers to the fundamental questions about our lives.

Lewis Wolpert: How We Live and Why We Die

Nestor Kornblum - Overtone Chant

Viggo Mortensen reads an extract from The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. Part of The Waste Land app for iPad, now available to download in the App Store: http://bit.ly/kJATn3

Viggo Mortensen reads The Waste Land (The Fire Sermon, extract)

"April is the cruellest month..." In a rare recording from 1933, T.S. Eliot reads an extract from The Waste Land. Part of The Waste Land app for iPad, now available to download in the App Store: http://bit.ly/kJATn3

T.S. Eliot reads The Waste Land (The Burial of the Dead, extract)

Count Arthur Strong is a show business legend, after-dinner speaker and a leading authority on Ancient Egypt, having been stationed there during his nation service. He has countless friends in the showbiz world. People like Barry Cryer, the white haired one with glasses off 'I'm Sorry I Haven't Got A Clue' and 'Jokers Wild'. This is his first volume, of what he believes may be a six-volume collection, of his memoirs and it's available to buy now from Audible: http://bit.ly/1iSoNgT.

The audio version, read by the great man himself, is available now on CD and digital download.

Through It All I've Always Laughed: The Early Years of Count Arthur Strong!



'Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin' presents Alan Bennett's selection of English verse by his favourite poets, accompanied by his own enlivening commentary.

Read more about 'Six Poets' on the Faber website: bit.ly/1wQCx3i
Audiobook also available: amzn.to/1qNzFyX


'To an Athlete Dying Young' by A. E. Housman, read by Alan Bennett

'The Trees' by Philip Larkin, read by Alan Bennett

It's 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been blissfully married for six years. But a murderer in their midst has other ideas ... 'Death Comes to Pemberley' is a brilliant new 'sequel' to Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' - but one with a deadly twist. In this extended interview, P. D. James shares her appreciation for Austen, and discusses the challenge of taking such a beloved work of fiction in a wholly unexpected direction ... 
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P. D. James: Death Comes to Pemberley

An excerpt from the audio book of 4 3 2 1, read by the author, Paul Auster.

Paul Auster reads from 4321

The Sunday Sessions consists of twenty-six poems, the contents of two tapes recorded by Philip Larkin in Hull in February 1980, and contains some of his best known and well-loved poems. Only recently rediscovered, the tapes were originally published as a bestselling Faber audiobook, and are now being released as a special vinyl edition to reflect Larkin’s own love of record collecting. Beautifully designed in homage to the great jazz records of the fifties and sixties, and produced on heavyweight vinyl, the release is an unmissable treat for Larkin fans and vinyl enthusiasts alike.
Available to buy here: http://bit.ly/ApHMEi


Philip Larkin reads The Sunday Sessions (Toads)

Stewart Lee's previous book How I Escaped My Certain Fate drew on three live shows to deconstruct the nature of stand-up comedy. With its heavy use of footnotes there was a nod in structure to T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. For his new book, the slimmer volume Stewart Lee! The 'If You Prefer a Milder Comedian Please Ask for One!' EP, Lee draws inspiration from The Specials' 1980 five-track EP The Special AKA Live!, live material surplus to any long player. This 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.

If You Prefer a Milder Comedian - Stewart Lee: The Podcast

Hannah Sullivan reads 'You, Very Young in New York' from her debut collection, THREE POEMS.

Hannah Sullivan reading 'You, Very Young in New York'

As a Foreign Correspondent, Channel 4 News' International Editor Lindsey Hilsum has covered many of the major conflicts of the past two decades: the genocide in Rwanda, war in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 'Sandstorm', her first book, she turns her journalist's eye on the Libyan revolution. It's a remarkable documentary of Gaddafi's 42-year-long reign, filled with first-hand accounts from the Libyan people.

Lindsey Hilsum: Sandstorm

A clip of Academy Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons reading T. S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' from a landmark recording released April 2018.
https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571342709-the-poems-of-t-s-eliot-read-by-jeremy-irons.html

Jeremy Irons reading T. S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - Clip

'The Thought-Fox' by Ted Hughes, taken from Poems for Children, read by the author.

Some of the most delightful poems ever written for children, brought evocatively to life in this wonderful new audio edition. Ted Hughes' poetry for children is as rich, powerful and magical as anything he wrote. This new recording consists of a collection of the children's poems of Ted Hughes, introduced and selected by acclaimed writer Michael Morpurgo, and read by both Morpurgo and actor Juliet Stevenson.
More information about the audiobook here: http://faber.co.uk/work/poems-for-children/9780571259496/

The Thought-Fox by Ted Hughes

The Harvest Moon by Ted Hughes, taken from Poems for Children, read by the author.

Ted Hughes' poetry for children is as rich, powerful and magical as anything he wrote. This new recording consists of a collection of the children's poems of Ted Hughes, introduced and selected by acclaimed writer Michael Morpurgo, and read by both Morpurgo and actor Juliet Stevenson.
For more information on the audiobook: http://faber.co.uk/work/poems-for-children/9780571259496/

The Harvest Moon by Ted Hughes

Simon Armitage, the UK's new Poet Laureate, reads 'Last', a poem from his new book, Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic, which brings together work from across his writing career. This is an extract from the audiobook edition of Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic, available from all good audiobook retailers now.

Simon Armitage reads his poem 'Last'

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with leading theoretical physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed, who gave Graham an inspiring interview about the mysterious harmony between pure mathematics and fundamental physics. First of a two-part interview.

Based on Graham Farmelo's book The Universe Speaks in Numbers.
https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571321803-the-universe-speaks-in-numbers.html

The Universe Speaks in Numbers 1: Graham Farmelo interviews Nima Arkani-Hamed (part 1)

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Sir Roger Penrose. Sir Roger Penrose, a hybrid mathematician-cosmologist, is one of the most accomplished scientific thinkers of the past fifty years. In this compelling interview with Graham, Penrose describes some of the key events of his remarkable career.

Based on Graham Farmelo's book The Universe Speaks in Numbers.
https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571321803-the-universe-speaks-in-numbers.html

The Universe Speaks in Numbers 7: Graham Farmelo interviews Roger Penrose

'An immersive, polyphonic adventure.' Deborah Levy

Celebrating 100 years since first publication of 'modernism's lost masterpiece' (Julia Briggs).

In just twenty-two pages, Hope Mirrlees combines sensuous psychogeography with modernist avant garde poetics to create a dazzling single-day journey through interwar Paris in the eyes of a jaded flâneuse. Sights, smells, music, gem-encrusted tortoises, shrouded monuments – it's a truly glorious and immersive evocation of Paris in the springtime.

The cover of our edition is inspired by Sonia Delaunay's modernist designs, while she was living in Paris in the 1920s (with thanks to Eleanor Crow). The text inside reproduces, in Caslon Old Face type, the layout of the Hogarth Press edition (with thanks to Kate Ward). 

Deborah Levy summons the spirit of this 'fiercely independent, young and spirited, flawed and brilliant female writer' in her introductory foreword, Julia Briggs's line-by-line commentary unveils the verse's intricate allusions, while Mirrlees's biographer Sandeep Parmar summarises the social and biographical context in her afterword.

Hope Mirrlees (1887–1978) was a British translator, poet and novelist. She published three novels in her lifetime, Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists (1919), The Counterplot (1924) and the fantasy novel Lud-in-the-Mist (1926); three slim volumes of poetry, which culminated in Moods and Tensions (1976); and A Fly in Amber (1962), a biography of the British antiquarian Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.

With thanks to Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson and Director James Lever, 
© Hope Mirrlees estate

Paris by Hope Mirrlees read by Charlotte Rampling and Lambert Wilson

A journey into the heartland of psychiatry.

This book debunks myths, challenges assumptions and offers fresh insight into what it means to be mentally ill.

And what it means to be human.

This is an extract from Costa Prize-winner Nathan Filer's This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health, read by the author.

'I cannot recommend it highly enough.' Caitlin Moran

'Brims with compassion and wit.' Cathy Rentzenbrink

'Absolutely blew me away.' Jo Brand

'Brilliant . . . I love it.' Phillippa Perry

'I have never read a more powerful book about mental health.' Joanna Cannon

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health was previously published in 2019 under the title The Heartland.

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Faber Book of the Week: This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health by Nathan Filer, part 1

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