Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber review – bum notes
The author of Under the Skin’s eccentric take on music fails to reverberate
October 2023
In brief: Listen; The Temple of Fortuna; Poor Things – review
‘Like the brakes of a train never coming to a stop’: author Michel Faber on the torture of tinnitus
May 2023
Top 10s
Top 10 strangest alien invasion novels
We don’t need crash-bang confrontations in moral black and white. These novels tell more subtle stories, where the line between human and other blurs
December 2020
Michel Faber: 'Under the Skin changed my life for good'
The author reflects on the sense of alienation that informed his first novel, and the book’s lasting message of moral responsibility
October 2020
D (A Tale of Two Worlds) by Michel Faber review – fantasy that fails to fly
The letter D disappears in a childlike fable from the author of The Book of Strange New Things
September 2020
Books interview
Michel Faber: 'I don't read fiction any more'
The acclaimed author on his new fantasy for young adults, and why he’s not interested in writing realist fiction - or reading it
June 2020
Overcoming fears, discovering nature ... what I have learned from lockdown
As lockdown eases, authors including Anne Enright, Mark Haddon and Sebastian Barry reflect on what they have learned – and what comes next
March 2020
Books that made me
Elizabeth Gilbert: ‘Don’t we all wish we’d written Wolf Hall?’
The bestselling author on her love of Tove Jansson, trying to read Ulysses and why we shouldn’t ‘book-shame’
October 2019
Dear Europe: letters from JK Rowling, Neil Gaiman, Mary Beard and more
From Paris to Berlin, fado to football, boat trains to pen friends … public figures reflect on their lifelong relationship with Europe
November 2018
Top 10s
Top 10 modern Victorian novels
Narrative tricks minted in the 19th century are still working in contemporary fiction by authors from Margaret Atwood to Sarah Waters
February 2018
Top 10s
Top 10 books about the Scottish Highlands and Islands
Remote yet magnetic, the rugged environments of Scotland’s north have been inspiring writing for centuries, whether in memoir, natural history or tales of alien hitchhikers...
August 2016
Books blog
What's your favourite Scottish novel – and is it on the BBC's list?
The broadcaster is putting 30 books chosen by an expert panel to a public vote to find Scotland’s favourite book. Let us know what you make of the selection
July 2016
A life in ...
Michel Faber: 'I would have been a different writer without my wife'
The book interview: Since his wife Eva died in 2014, Michel Faber has emerged a changed writer. The author of Under the Skin shares how he charted his grief through poetry and why he carries Eva’s shoes with him
January 2016
The Little Library Café
Food in books: raisin bread from The Book of Strange New Things
Kate Young finds inspiration in Michel Faber’s sci-fi novel and solace in its comfort food, apt for those away from home – or light years from planet Earth
December 2015
Michel Faber sends David Cameron latest novel in protest over Syria
In an ‘impotent satirical gesture’, the novelist has sent The Book of Strange New Things to the PM, saying: ‘If you drop it from a plane, it might hit a Syrian’
October 2015
Halloween horrors: writers reveal their private fright nights ...
MR James’s ghost stories are guaranteed to provide a Halloween chill. But a Mozart piano concerto? The Simpsons? Three surgeons from Dundee?
August 2015
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber review – a moving study of the power of language
The 2015 Man Booker longlist – migrants, Bob Marley, but few major names
July 2015
Man Booker prize 2015 longlist: let the 'posh bingo' begin
At midday on Wednesday, the opening list of runners and riders for Britain’s leading books prize is unleashed on the reading world. Who will it be? Who will it be?
