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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 1h

Looking for something new for your TBR? We’ve brought together a collection of our new and upcoming releases for October to December 2025 to help you choose.

faber.co.uk/journal/new-books-preview-october-to-december-2025

New Books Preview: October to December 2025

Explore our collection of new and upcoming releases from Faber for October to December 2025.

www.faber.co.uk

Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 1h

‘Every day we have the chance to connect someone with a book they’d never otherwise have found.’

Our Independent Bookshop of the Month is Lala Books in Camberwell, recently crowned one of the world’s coolest neighbourhoods.

faber.co.uk/journal/independent-bookshop-of-the-month-lala-books/

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 2h

'A page-turner and a heartbreaker, a tour de force of knotted tension and buried anguish.' TIME

One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, Never Let Me Go is just £1.19 on Kindle today: amazon.co.uk/Never-Let-Me-Kazuo-Ishiguro-ebook/dp/B002RI9ZX6/

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 3h

'Reads like a Claire Keegan short story expanded by Elizabeth Strout.' The Times

Love Forms, the heart-aching novel from Claire Adam, is just £1.89 on Kindle today: amazon.co.uk/Love-Forms-Claire-Adam-ebook/dp/B0DPLMG7PJ/

Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 4h

'Packs a serious emotional punch.' Daily Telegraph

The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits, now shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is only £1.49 on Kindle today 🚗

www.amazon.co.uk/Rest-Our-Liv...

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 5h

Friends. Lovers. Therapists. Deathbots. AI is now fulfilling new roles for millions of us every single day. How are these new 'relationships' changing how we view technology - and each other?

Love Machines by James Muldoon is the first book on AI companions. Out January: linktr.ee/lovemachinesbook

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Philip Stephens has shared his recommended reads on Bookshop.org, to accompany his new book These Divided Isles: Britain and Ireland, Past and Future.

uk.bookshop.org/lists/philip...

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Introducing The Log Books, an intimate history of LGBTQ+ life over four decades, discovered in a stash of forgotten, handwritten notes.

'Bursting with humanity and real life on every page.' Dan Snow

Out January 2026: linktr.ee/TheLogBooks
Photo credits: Switchboard Archive, Bishopsgate Institute

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Faber will publish a definitive new selection of Edna O’Brien’s non-fiction essays, featuring previously unseen pieces. Ecstasy, Uncertainty & Folly: Selected Non-Fiction will be published in 2027.

thebookseller.com/rights/faber-to-publish-landmark-collection-of-edna-obriens-essays

Faber to publish ‘landmark’ collection of Edna O'Brien's essays

Faber has announced plans to publish a “definitive” new selection of Edna O’Brien’s non-fiction essays, featuring previously unseen pieces.

thebookseller.com

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Leila Aboulela, winner of the PEN Pinter Prize 2025, has announced writer, journalist and human rights activist, Stella Gaitano, as this year’s Writer of Courage.

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Christmas Eve, 1943. Anthony and Elva Pratt arrive in a snowy English village to run a murder mystery game – and instead discover a real murder. Can they puzzle out this Christmas mystery before it's too late?

The Christmas Clue by @nicolaupson.bsky.social is out now in hardback ✨

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Here's one of our favourite entries from A Year of Living Curiously.

A joyfully random almanac with a curious shot of knowledge for every day of the year. Out now in paperback 🐟

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 2d

'The storyline is tinged with melancholia, but the peerless wordsmithing makes it unputdownable.’ Country Life

Bestselling author John Banville is back this autumn with Venetian Vespers, out now in hardback, ebook and audiobook ❄️

linktr.ee/venetianvesp...

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for following along today as we celebrated The Poems of Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue, with Matthew Hollis. We’ll sign off with a photo of Seamus Heaney reading from North.

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 2d

‘Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I'll dig with it.'

Listen to Jarvis Cocker read ‘Digging’
youtube.com/watch?v=KRgyIWYMy8g

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Here is an extract from Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy, displayed in Dublin with an extract from Victoria Adukwei Bulley as part of our recent Poetry Underlined campaign:

See more about the campaign here: faber.co.uk/journal/poetry-underlined-duncan-montgomery-on-the-campaign-design/

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Listen to an archive episode of Desert Island Discs, where Seamus Heaney chooses as his book, Ulysses and as his luxury, Doc Marten boots. bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009mdcy

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Seamus Heaney

Sue Lawley's castaway is Oxford Professor of Poetry Seamus Heaney

bbc.co.uk

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 3d

'Berkeley swings like a swing-boat, has all the colour of the fairground and as much incense burning as a high altar in the Vatican.'

From the archive: Seamus Heaney writes to Rosemary Goad at Faber from Berkeley, California in September 1970

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 3d

‘Masons, when they start upon a building,
Are careful to test out the scaffolding.’

Listen to Seamus Heaney read ‘Scaffolding’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNYB...

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 3d

'Heaney's collected works reveal his colossal achievement... This book is a landmark.' The Guardian

The long-awaited Poems of Seamus Heaney is out now:
faber.co.uk/product/9780571340385-the-poems-of-seamus-heaney/

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 3d

From the Archive. Seamus Heaney writes to Faber editor Charles Monteith in May 1965 with a ‘selection of poems for your consideration.’ This selection of poems would become the groundbreaking collection, Death of a Naturalist.

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 3d

The Poems of Seamus Heaney encompasses twelve single volumes and the many uncollected poems Heaney published, as well as a selection of previously unpublished material chosen by the poet's family.

Which is your favourite poem or collection?

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Today we are celebrating the publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney, the long-awaited, definitive edition of Heaney’s poetry.

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 3d

If you’re in Dallas, San Francisco or Boston, Eimear McBride will be on tour throughout October.

linktr.ee/faberus

Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 4d

We are so pleased that Ishion Hutchinson’s School of Instructions has won the Rilke Prize for Poetry.

english.unt.edu/creative-writing/unt-rilke-prize.html

UNT Rilke Prize

The UNT Rilke Prize awards $10,000 to a collection that demonstrates exceptional artistry and vision written by a mid-career poet and published in the preceding year. The prize is named after the…

english.unt.edu

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