Simon Wroe spoke to Sara Cox about his new novel Ghost Month for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club - listen here 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

'I knew as I made my way home that there was no home. All the old things . . . were gone for ever.' 📚 'A masterly work of historical witness and moral reckoning' Observer Sebastian Barry's The Newer World is published in the UK next week and in Ireland on Thursday.

We are very pleased that two Faber poets, Bernard O'Donoghue and Tom Paulin have been shortlisted for this year's Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. Congratulations to all the shortlisted poets. arrowsmithpress.com/walcott

Here are some of our favourite translated novels that we've been delving into for Women in Translation Month. We'd love to hear what stories from around the world you've been reading in August 📚

'As a result of reading Howl’s Moving Castle over and over again I made Callie, our romantic heroine, a milliner' Find out which other works of fiction inspired Charlotte Vassell's Caius Beauchamp Mysteries over on the Faber Journal 📚 www.faber.co.uk/journal/read...

Ghost Month by @simonwroe.bsky.social is a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick! Hear more about Simon's new novel from 55.45 here 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Jo Whiley - Radio 2 Book Club recommendations! - BBC Sounds

Jo chats to Joe Haddow from the Radio 2 Book Club about what you should be reading!

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'Bold, bright and haunting. A beautiful celebration of the best of humanity in the face of a brutal future' Josh Silver Win copies of Songlight by Moira Buffini for your book club before our giveaway closes on 1 September 👀 bookclubhub.co.uk/noticeboard/...

Introducing a fresh and contemporary look at one of history's greatest thinkers, Saint Augustine from Costa-award winning author, Bart Van Es. This is biography at its most original. True Fire is out on 11 February and proofs are almost here... ❤️‍🔥 linktr.ee/truefirebook

'Perhaps you've already noticed little things, strange details. A shadow not attached to anything. A face in a window which might be a trick of the light. They come at dusk. Today.' Ghost Month by @simonwroe.bsky.social is out now in hardback, ebook and audio. linktr.ee/ghostmonth

'Dark and compelling . . . brilliant' Bill Browder 'War reporting at its finest' Serhii Plokhy 'More gripping than a thriller' Andrey Kurkov Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest by @lukeharding1968.bsky.social is out today in hardback, ebook and audio. linktr.ee/luke_harding

'Illuminating' Sathnam Sanghera 'Masterfully and beautifully written' Jonathan Powell 'A lively account' Irish Times These Divided Isles: Britain and Ireland, Past and Future by @philipstephens.bsky.social is out now in paperback. www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

Early finished copies of Partita by Barbara Kingsolver have arrived 💫

'After the Pulitzer-winning Demon Copperhead, a retelling of David Copperfield set in Appalachia, Kingsolver returns with a quieter tale of midlife longing and regret.' The Guardian selects Partita as one of the coming season's fictional highlights ✨ www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

It may still be four months to go until Christmas, but it's only one month until you can get your hands on Do You See What I See?, Peter Swanson's cracking new Christmas murder. Treat yourself and pre-order now 🎄 www.waterstones.com/book/do-you-...

'This book has cured my Hunger Games hangover' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review Win copies of Songlight by Moira Buffini for your book club with the @readingagency.bsky.social. Entries close 1 September. bookclubhub.co.uk/noticeboard/...

'I was born to wish for more than I can have. No little fishing hole for Demon, he wants the whole ocean.' Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver is only £1.19 in ebook as part of today's Kindle Daily Deals. www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

'Waugh’s whimsically callous aristocrats who party on the edge of oblivion and respectability fed into the opening chapter of The Other Half' Charlotte Vassell shares some of the inspirations behind her Caius Beauchamp Mysteries. www.faber.co.uk/journal/read...

'Weird, wonderful . . . I loved it' Matt Haig 'Beautiful. I adored it' Jennie Godfrey 'Extraordinary' Janice Hallett On offer today on eBook, 'prepare to have your heartstrings pulled by a precocious vacuum cleaner': www.amazon.co.uk/Infinite-Sad...

📚 Join Sebastian Barry on tour this autumn to celebrate his new novel The Newer World 📚 linktr.ee/sebastianbar...

In this world, songlight is either revered or reviled. It's time to pick a side... Are you in a book club? Head over to the @readingagency noticeboard for your chance to win copies of Songlight by Moira Buffini, the first in an epic dystopian trilogy 📚 bookclubhub.co.uk/noticeboard/...

'Richardson, master chronically of the rake, inspired many deplorable men who have disgraced these pages' Charlotte Vassell revisits the fiction that inspired to write her contemporary mystery series starring DI Caius Beauchamp. www.faber.co.uk/journal/read...

'I wanted it to feel like a thriller, a satire of contemporary London life, while still having these gothic flourishes and something slightly otherworldly.' Simon Wroe discusses his new novel Ghost Month, publishing 27 August, with Cold Magazine 👇 thecoldmagazine.co.uk/simon-wroes-...

Why Simon Wroe’s Ghost Month is the ultimate modern London novel

Explore Simon Wroe's Ghost Month, where grief and memory intertwine with the return of spirits in contemporary London.

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ICYMI, Call Me by Your Name: The Graphic Novel is BookKind's Fiction Book of the Month 🌞 10% of your order will be donated to a charity of your choice, such as LGBT Foundation, and you can get 10% off RRP this August. bookkind.co.uk/call-me-by-y...

Rachel Cusk’s Life of M and more Faber titles are among The Times’s forty books not to miss this autumn. thetimes.com/culture/books/article/40-best-new-books-read-fiction-nonfiction-reading-autumn-2026-9svkdldr8

'And fling the new moons through his stormy banner, And the full moons and the dark moons.' Ted Hughes was born on this day in 1930.

Faber is seeking freelance administrative support within the editorial department, for an initial period of approximately three months. More information: faber.co.uk/careers/freelance-administrative-support-editorial-department/

Fall in love with Elio and Oliver's story all over in again with the graphic novel adaptation of Call Me by Your Name. Out now in this gorgeous paperback edition 🌞 linktr.ee/cmbyngraphic...

'Another fantastic book from Barbara Kingsolver – right up there with Demon Copperhead in the way that it draws you in' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Early NetGalley Review Some incredible early five star reader reviews coming in for Partita by Barbara Kingsolver, out this October. www.waterstones.com/book/partita...

‘A titan of Latin American literature’ New York Times ‘A powerhouse of literary energy’ William Boyd I Give You My Silence, the final novel from Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, publishes today. www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

Have you ever walked into a room and immediately forgotten why? Lost your train of thought halfway through a sentence? Think Before You Think: Understanding Our Brain's Mission Control is out today in hardback, ebook and audio 🧠