Children’s author D. D. Everest considers the importance of feeding children’s imagination, encouraging them to read books and inspiring them to write their own stories. In particular, he advocates the importance of libraries, which inspired the magical library in the Archie Greene trilogy. Chris Evans, the host of Radio 2’s Breakfast Show and now the | Continue reading D. D. Everest on inspiring children’s imagination…
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Read an extract from Edna O’Brien’s The Little Red Chairs
Edna O’Brien’s latest novel The Little Red Chairs tells the story of a wanted Balkan war criminal who’s disguised himself as a holistic healer and is living in a village on the west coast of Ireland. Gripping and thought-provoking, the book has been hailed as ‘a spectacular piece of work’ by the Guardian. Now available to buy | Continue reading Read an extract from Edna O’Brien’s The Little Red Chairs…
Daljit Nagra on Frederick Seidel: The poetry of truth
Daljit Nagra considers the appeal of the work of American poet Frederick Seidel on publication of his latest collection, Widening Income Inequality. Frederick Seidel is the great controversialist of American poetry, and has, over many decades, won admirers and enemies in equal measure for his caustic and unflinching verse. I am one of the admirers. | Continue reading Daljit Nagra on Frederick Seidel: The poetry of truth…
A Summer Evening colouring sheet for kids
In June, Faber will publish our latest picture book, Summer Evening, Walter de la Mare’s glorious celebration of a balmy summer’s evening in the countryside, with stunning illustrations from Carolina Rabei. Children will love getting creative with this exclusive colouring sheet we’ve made to accompany the book. Download it for free by clicking this link: Summer Evening | Continue reading A Summer Evening colouring sheet for kids…
Editor to Author: An interview with Oliver Balch
In the first in our series of editor-author interviews, travel writer and Under the Tump author Oliver Balch talks to his Faber editor, Walter Donohue about living in, and writing about, foreign lands – from being an ‘incomer’ in Argentina to adapting to rural life in Wales. Walter Donohue: What caused you to leave the | Continue reading Editor to Author: An interview with Oliver Balch…
Simon Armitage reads from ‘Pearl’
The poet, playwright and Oxford Professor of Poetry, Simon Armitage, published his first Middle English translation, the hugely popular and acclaimed Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in 2008. Now, following a 2012 translation of The Death King Arthur, Simon has completed his loose trilogy of Middle English verse with Pearl, a poem by, it’s | Continue reading Simon Armitage reads from ‘Pearl’…
On why short stories matter
Author Lucy Caldwell, whose new collection Multitudes is published this month, tells us why short stories matter – both to readers and to writers – and offers us five examples of beautifully crafted short stories by other writers. A good short story: greater than the sum of its parts A short story is a shot | Continue reading On why short stories matter…
