Authors & Reviews
Book Review: Shocked Earth by Saskia Goldschmidt, translated by Antoinette Fawcett
The global outbreak of COVID-19 has affected every part of human lives, including the physical world. As we now navigate a post-pandemic era, it’s become even clearer that how we treat the natural world around us is paramount to its – and our own – survival.
“People don’t want to hear me, they want to hear the filmmaker.” Jason Wood talks about The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema
Back in the early 2000s, Mexican cinema was riding a wave with films such as Amores Perros and Y tu mamá también impressing audiences and critics alike.
“It was an absolute buzz.” Graham Duff talks about collaborating with Mark E Smith on horror script The Otherwise
“Course it is, where do you think I get this golden glow from, Ready Brek?”.
Book Review: A Stinging Delight – A Memoir by David Storey
Throughout his memoir, A Stinging Delight, David Storey wrangles with a sense of loss that was hardwired into him before he was born.
Book Review: The Sleep Book – Helping Busy Brains Settle for Sleep by Aislinn Marek
There are certain points in life where things happen with almost perfect timing.
Book Review: Lost, Found, Remembered by Lyra McKee
We tend not to grasp that the UK endured a bloody civil war between 1969 and 1998.
Book Review: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
What would happen if our ‘what-goes-on-behind-closed-doors’ was witnessed?
Book Review: I Belong Here by Anita Sethi
In early summer 2019, Anita Sethi was sitting in a packed carriage on the TransPennine Express train from Liverpool to Newcastle when she was racially abused by a man who, among other abhorrent things, told her to “go back to where you are from”.
Book Review: This Is How We Come Back Stronger – Feminist Writers on Turning Crisis into Change
Women across the world are bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 crisis.
Book Review: Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
In the preface to this new Faber compendium of essays about The Fall, co-editors Tessa Norton and Bob Stanley declare that ‘this book is not about a rock band’. They say: ‘This is not even about Mark E Smith. The book is for Mark E Smith more than it is about him.”
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