Sullivan wins 2018 T S Eliot Prize
In the UK, London-based poet Hannah Sullivan has won the 2018 T S Eliot Prize for poetry. Sullivan won the prize for her debut collection Three Poems (Faber), making it the third debut...
Burns wins 2018 Man Booker Prize
Northern Irish writer Anna Burns has won the 2018 Man Booker Prize for her third novel, Milkman (Faber). She is the first Northern Irish author and 17th woman to win...
New Faber membership program launches in the UK
In the UK, Faber is launching a two-tiered membership program, which will offer discounts, access to members-only events and special collector’s editions of the publisher’s titles, reports the Bookseller. The...
Faber launches London pop-up shop
In the UK, Faber will host a pop-up shop in London in the lead-up to Christmas, reports the Bookseller. The shop, run by Faber’s publishing and events arm Faber Social,...
On tour: Meet the author Junot Diaz
US author Junot Diaz is visiting Australia in August for the Melbourne and Brisbane writers festivals. Diaz is the author of books including The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,...
Faber UK launches online store with The Book People
In the UK, Faber has launched an online store with the website The Book People, reports the Bookseller. The store, called FaberShop, sells directly to customers, and sits alongside other...
Faber teams up with the ‘Guardian’ to launch nonfiction imprint
In the UK, Faber & Faber has launched a new nonfiction imprint with the Guardian newspaper, reports the Bookseller. Guardian Faber will commission up to 20 nonfiction works each year...
Controversy around 50th-anniversary cover for ‘The Bell Jar’
In the UK, a new cover for Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar has been criticised for portraying the book as ‘glorified chick lit’, reports the Guardian. The cover of the...
Faber to change logo
Faber has announced it will be changing its branding and ‘slimming down the iconic “ff” logo’, reports the Bookseller. Faber sales and marketing director Will Atkinson outlined some of the...
Barry wins Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction
Irish author Sebastian Barry has won the 2012 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction for On Canaan’s Side (Faber). The Walter Scott Prize is worth £25,000 and is presented during...
Canongate, Faber to co-publish audiobooks
UK publishers Canongate and Faber will launch an audiobook co-publishing venture later this year, reports the Bookseller. Under the arrangement, Canongate will handle the sales and production of the audio...
Faber announces partnership with Perseus to offer digital distribution services to Australian publishers
Faber has announced a partnership with US distributor Perseus that will offer digital distribution services to publishers in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. ‘Faber Factory Powered...
Faber Academy to launch Melbourne program
The Faber Academy at Allen & Unwin has announced that it will offer creative writing courses in Melbourne this year. The Academy, which launched in Australia with a Sydney program...
A&U launches Faber Academy in Australia
Allen & Unwin has announced that creative writing courses will be taught at a Faber Academy in Sydney from March 2011. The publisher will partner with Faber Academy in the...
Digital publishing symposium: special report
Readers will pay more than they currently do for ebooks, but not much more; ebook publishing and digital marketing are not so scary once you get started; digital rights and...
Bradley, Jordan on ‘Richard & Judy’ summer picks list
The Resurrectionist by Australian author James Bradley (Picador) and Addition by Australian author Toni Jordan are two of the eight titles that have been chosen for the influential Richard & Judy summer reads...