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We're so pleased to see @nicolaupson.bsky.social's seasonal crime story The Christmas Clue at #6 in The Times Hardback Fiction chart on Saturday 🎉
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
'I like lots of family dysfunction, preferably in the recent past, with a little poetry and my favourite hapless spies.'

What would be on your reading list for your dream holiday? Murder Takes a Vacation author Laura Lippman shares her picks with us 📚

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November 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
We were deeply saddened to hear of the death of Rachel Cooke, the journalist and critic, and our partner for the last few years on the Observer/Faber Graphic Short Story Prize. A brilliant, thoughtful and inspiring champion of the Arts. We will miss her.
November 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
'No list of tech-inspired thrillers can begin without Michael Crichton.'

To celebrate the release of The Confessions, find out which books Paul Bradley Carr recommends for those of us who are petrified (and occasionally a tiny bit excited) by Silicon Valley 👀

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November 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
We're thrilled that Christine Falls by John Banville is the One Dublin One Book choice for 2026, twenty years on since it was first published and now under his own name in our new edition. Find out more from @dublincityoflit.bsky.social 👇

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November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Jan Morris: A Life is out 9 April 2026. Available to pre-order now.

Sara Wheeler uncovers the complexity of the 20th-century icon to reveal a mosaic of contradictions. This is a portrait of an astonishing life, a scintillating story of longing, travel and never reaching home.
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
'It's like Shakespeare with vegetables.'

Find out which book Laura Lippman is talking about over on the Faber Journal, where she's crafted her dream holiday reading list in homage to her latest novel, Murder Takes a Vacation 🧳

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November 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The Faber Sales department is looking to recruit a Key Account Manager (Maternity Cover) to oversee established trading relationships with high street retailers, supermarkets, and non-traditional bookselling accounts. Apply by 16 November.

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November 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
'One of the most brilliant British writers working today.’ Spectator

🎲 Who decides the rules of the games we play? 🎲

Our stunning proofs for Seven, the timeless new novel from Joanna Kavenna 📚

Out 15 January in the UK and 14 July in the US.

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November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
'A taut, elegantly written thriller that explores the primal terror of loss and the quiet fury of a woman determined to uncover the truth.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

We love this early reader review for Missing by E. A. Jackson, available to request now on NetGalley.

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November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
'I’ve always been fascinated by technology’s ability to delight and terrify us in equal measure.'

Former tech journalist Paul Bradley Carr shares five books for people petrified (and occasionally a tiny bit excited) by Silicon Valley 📚

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November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The pineapple is dead.

A Certain Hunger by @chelseagsummers.bsky.social is back with a brand new cover.

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November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Exclusive: @lukeharding1968.bsky.social - author of Invasion: Russia's Bloody War - interviewed Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the Guardian.

Luke's book Invasion is out now.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Adele Bertei didn't just witness the No Wave explosion—she ignited it. In No New York, she reveals the untold story of the boundary-pushing women who made New York's most radical cultural revolution possible.

It's out in hardback & ebook on 26 March, you can pre-order it now.

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November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Our Independent Bookshop of the Month for November is Kemps Books, in Malton, North Yorkshire. We spoke to owner Liz and perpetual employee of the month, Bookshop Dog Bruno.

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November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The Faber Sales department is looking to recruit a Key Account Manager to oversee established trading relationships with high street retailers, supermarkets, and non-traditional bookselling accounts. Apply by 16 November.

faber.co.uk/careers/key-account-manager-maternity-cover/
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Ben Markovits is on the latest episode of Shop Talk discussing The Rest of Our Lives 📚

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November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
‘Feels less like reading a novel and more like sitting in a car beside a dear friend. . . a profoundly moving experience.’ Ann Patchett

The Rest of Our Lives is shortlisted for the Booker Prize - we're looking forward to finding out the winner this evening ✨

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November 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
‘Deeply human. . . a beautifully quiet and devastating book.’ Sarah Jessica Parker

The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits is shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize. ✨
November 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
‘Many of the clubs in this book started small, with young people at the heart of it. Find people who have the keys to space and ask them to open it up.’

To celebrate Youth Work Week, Emma Warren, explains how we can help support our youth clubs.
November 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
'A perfect Christmas crime story – atmospheric and chilling.' Elly Griffiths

A party game goes horribly wrong in The Christmas Clue by @nicolaupson.bsky.social, the @waterstones.bsky.social Thriller Book of the Month for November 🎄

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November 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
'Powerful.' Daily Telegraph

1990s New York: Tony Pellar – now lives in the subway tunnels, fighting for his sanity as his mind overflows with memories of Agatha, a woman he calls the Soul Snatcher.

Our new edition of Orange Laughter by @leoneross.bsky.social is out now in ebook and audio.
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
'He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest.'

Introducing Stop All the Clocks: Poems of Love and Loss a new selection of W. H. Auden's best loved poems. Out 20 November: linktr.ee/StopAllTheClocks
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
'The Confessions is a thrill ride from beginning to end.'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review

Former tech journalist Paul Bradley Carr imagines a world in which AI technology became conscious in The Confessions. Out now in paperback, ebook and audiobook 💥

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November 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
‘I love his cleverness, his wit, and his heart.' Nigella Lawson

The Bonfire of the Insanities lights up a new chapter of governmental absurdity with mordant wit and caustic humour, from the inimitable @mrjohncrace.bsky.social. Out today 🔥 linktr.ee/BonfireoftheInsanities 🔥
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM