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In our latest podcast George Miller talks to Giles Foden about his nailbitingly tense new book Turbulence, in which he brings to life the role of weather forecasters, unheralded heroes, in the lead-up to D-Day. He also discusses How to Paint a Dead Man with author Sarah Hall, and its prominent theme of how to find meaning in our lives through art

Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland, here discusses his new novel Turbulence and the largely unheralded role of weather forecasters in the run-up to D-Day.

Sarah Hall discusses her new book, How to Paint a Dead Man. From Italy in the 1960s to Cumbria thirty years later, Sarah Hall's Booker-longlisted fourth novel, told through four narrators, is a fierce and brilliant study of art and its place in our lives.

In our May 2009 podcast we speak to Guardian journalist Andy Beckett about his new book, When the Lights Went Out, which examines Britain during the 1970s, that most maligned of all decades. We also speak to Adam Creed about the first in a new British crime series, Suffer the Children, with its very distinctive hero, DI Will 'Staffe' Wagstaffe.

Guardian journalist Andy Beckett discusses his new book When the Lights Went Out, an examination of Britain during that most maligned of decades, the 1970s.

Adam Creed discusses his new book Suffer the Children and introduces the hero of the books, DI Will Wagstaffe, aka 'Staffe'. Since this first in the series, two more cases for Staffe have been published - Willing Flesh (2010) and Pain of Death (2011).

This month's Faber Podcast travels from A to Z - from Argentina and other South American nations documented by Oliver Balch in his new book, Viva South America!, to Zimbabwe, which provides the backdrop to the stories in Petina Gappah's book of stories, An Elegy for Easterly.

In her spirited debut collection, Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah brings us the resilience and inventiveness of the people who struggle to live under Robert Mugabe’s regime. Despite their circumstances, the characters in An Elegy for Easterly are more than victims; they are all too human, with as much capacity to inflict pain as they have to endure it. They struggle with larger issues common to al...

An interview with Oliver Balch, in which he discusses his new book Viva South America - an examination of the countries and communities of a great continent.

In our March 2009 podcast we discuss the secret lives of cells - their beautiful complexity - with Professor Lewis Wolpert, who publishes his latest book How We Live and Why We Die. We also speak to crime writer Stav Sherez about his new book The Black Monastery, a suspenseful thriller set on a Greek island.

Distinguished broadcaster, embryologist and Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine at University College, London Lewis Wolpert talks to us about How We Live and Why We Die, and reveals how cells provide the answers to the fundamental questions about our lives.

Stav Sherez talks about his first book for Faber, A Black Monastery, a gripping thriller set on a hedonistic Greek island. A blistering portrait of Paradise gone wrong ...

In our first podcast of 2009 we talk to Graham Farmelo about The Strangest Man, his brilliant study of the extraordinary and eccentric quantum physicist Paul Dirac, one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. We also talk to Sam Taylor about his third novel The Island at the End of the World, an exploration set in the near future of family, intrusion, love, truth and lies.

In an interview for the Faber website, Graham Farmelo discusses the genius of Paul Dirac, one of the greatest minds of the 20th century and an icon of modern thought, and reveals how Dirac inspired him to become a theoretical physicist.

Recorded in February 2009, Sam Taylor discusses his acclaimed third novel The Island at the End of the World, an exploration set in the near future of family, intrusion, love, truth and lies.

Our December 2008 podcast is a festive special. As consumption reaches its annual peak, Kathleen Burk and Michael Bywater, co-authors of Is This Bottle Corked?, share with us their love of wine and the stories wine inspires, and make us thirsty along the way.

In the sixth edition of the Faber Podcast, recorded before Barack Obama's victory at the polls, Paul Auster discusses his latest novel Man in the Dark, set in an America following a different course after a fictional, alternative 2000 Presidential Election result. We also speak to Nadeem Aslam about The Wasted Vigil and the brutal realities of Afghanistan's recent history.

Quintessential New Yorker Paul Auster discusses his new novel Man in the Dark (2008), set in a modern-day America but one which avoided the Bush years with a very different Election result in 2000.

Set in a modern-day Afghanistan, the dazzling new novel from Nadeem Aslam is a tale of family secrets, forbidden love and the tragedy and consequences of war. Nadeem Aslam here discusses the book, which puts a human face on the country's recent brutal history.

The White War is Mark Thompson's fascinating study of the forgotten Italian front during the First World War. For our latest podcast Thompson explores further the repercussions of the conflict on the Italian nation - psychological, cultural and political. We also speak to James Bradley about his gothic chiller The Resurrectionist and the grisly subjects of grave robbing and dissection.

James Bradley, author of The Resurrectionist, spoke to us about the Gothic chiller set in Victorian London, amidst a gruesome world of grave-robbing and human dissection. The Resurrectionist was a 'Richard & Judy Read' and is not a novel for those readers with a sensitive disposition.

An interview with Mark Thompson, author of one of the year's most praised works of history, The White War, which takes an in-depth look at Italian involvement in the First World War, and the subsequent political, social and cultural ramifications. It's an often-overlooked side to the conflict.

In this month's Faber Podcast our interviewer, George Miller, talks to authors Andrew Sean Greer about The Story of a Marriage, in which 1950s American suburban lives are turned upside down by the arrival of a stranger, and to Stephen Armstrong, whose new book War plc exposes the rise of the new corporate mercenary. .

Andrew Sean Greer reveals more about his 2008 novel - The Story of a Marriage - a 1950s based American story of secrets and relationships, and unexpected arrivals which turn a household, and a marriage, on its head.

Stephen Armstrong, author of War plc, explains the phenomenal rise of the new corporate mercenaries and the privatisation of warfare - a multi-billion dollar industry that most of us are not even aware of.