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John Lloyd recorded at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013, from his show Liff of QI, talking about his and Douglas Adams's 1983 book The Meaning of Liff and the new sequel Afterliff written with Jon Canter. http://afterliff.com

Dear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies. To accompany a Faber Poetry Podcast Emily reads a selection of poems, including 'Tomato Salad'.

Dear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies. To accompany a Faber Poetry Podcast Emily reads a selection of poems, including 'The Old Fuel'.

Dear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies. To accompany a Faber Poetry Podcast Emily reads a selection of poems, including 'Sweet Arlene'.

Dear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies. To accompany a Faber Poetry Podcast Emily reads a selection of poems, including 'Some Fears'.

Dear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies. To accompany a Faber Poetry Podcast Emily reads a selection of poems, including 'A Short Guide to Corseting'.

Dear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies. To accompany a Faber Poetry Podcast Emily reads a selection of poems, including 'Nothing Sets My Heart Aflame'.

Dear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies. To accompany a Faber Poetry Podcast Emily reads a selection of poems, including 'Letter to Husband'.

Reviewing the Forward Prize-shortlisted Dear Boy in the Observer, Kate Kellaway wrote, 'Emily Berry's debut is a treat. She is a new yet anything but hesitant voice. What is stimulating is that she approaches poetry as a flexible, permissive, dynamic ally. She seems to have complete freedom with form, and will use a poem whenever helpful as a vehicle for escape. A getaway car ... Berry's range is...

In Times of Fading Light is Eugen Ruge's 2011 German Book Prize-winning debut novel. A multi-generational story spanning well over half a century (and drawing to a certain extent on Ruge's own family history), it charts the impact of wider historical events on the lives of the Umlitzer family, who once belonged to the Communist elite but whose socialist utopia has long-since vanished by the time t...

In Times of Fading Light begins in 2001 as Alexander Umnitzer, who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, leaves behind his ailing father to fly to Mexico, where his grandparents lived as exiles in the 1940s. The novel then takes us both forward and back in time, creating a panoramic view of the family's history: from Alexander's grandparents' return to the GDR to build the socialist state...

In Times of Fading Light begins in 2001 as Alexander Umnitzer, who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, leaves behind his ailing father to fly to Mexico, where his grandparents lived as exiles in the 1940s. The novel then takes us both forward and back in time, creating a panoramic view of the family's history: from Alexander's grandparents' return to the GDR to build the socialist state...

Set in a world that Barbara Kingsolver knows well - rural Tennessee - Flight Behaviour follows events in the life of Dellarobia Turnbow, a woman in her late twenties who married the wrong man too young, and who gave up her own plans on becoming pregnant aged 17. One day, on the way to her first tryst with a lover, she has an encounter which at first she can't explain - millions of monarch butterfl...

Set in a world that Barbara Kingsolver knows well - rural Tennessee - Flight Behaviour follows events in the life of Dellarobia Turnbow, a woman in her late twenties who married the wrong man too young, and who gave up her own plans on becoming pregnant aged 17. One day, on the way to her first tryst with a lover, she has an encounter which at first she can't explain - millions of monarch butterfl...

Marcel Theroux's new novel Strange Bodies takes the reader on a dizzying speculative journey that poses questions about identity, translation, consciousness, metamorphosis, technology, necromancy, resurrection, immortality, not to mention Frankenstein, Ray Kurzweil and some of Communist Russia's most prominent thinkers. The book fizzes with ideas, but ultimately leaves you pondering just what it i...

Nicholas Slopen has been dead for months. So when a man claiming to be Nicholas turns up to visit an old girlfriend, deception seems the only possible motive ... Here's Marcel Theroux reading the second of two extracts from Strange Bodies, a literary sci-fi thriller fizzing with ideas about everything from consciousness to resurrection. An interview with Marcel is also available.

Nicholas Slopen has been dead for months. So when a man claiming to be Nicholas turns up to visit an old girlfriend, deception seems the only possible motive ... Here's Marcel Theroux reading the first of two extracts from Strange Bodies, a literary sci-fi thriller fizzing with ideas about everything from consciousness to resurrection. An interview with Marcel is also available.

Louise Doughty was a guest on the Faber Podcast in 2010, when she discussed Whatever You Love. Her new novel, Apple Tree Yard, shares with its predecessor an interest in the working out of vengeance, but in an entirely different context. Yvonne Carmichael is a loyal wife, a good mother, and a successful geneticist but one poor decision - the wrong time, in the wrong place, with the wrong man - see...

Sometimes you find yourself in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong person ... Louise Doughty’s seventh novel Apple Tree Yard tells the story of a woman who makes one rash choice that ends up putting her on trial at the Old Bailey for the most serious of crimes. But what is that choice, and what has a place on the map in central London called ‘Apple Tree Yard’ got to do with it? Here...

Sometimes you find yourself in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong person ... Louise Doughty’s seventh novel Apple Tree Yard tells the story of a woman who makes one rash choice that ends up putting her on trial at the Old Bailey for the most serious of crimes. But what is that choice, and what has a place on the map in central London called ‘Apple Tree Yard’ got to do with it? Here...

The gun in the title of Emma Brockes' extraordinary memoir belonged to her mother Paula, who left South Africa as a young woman in the 1960s to build a new life for herself in England, away from the trauma of her earlier years. 'One day I will tell you the story of my life', she promised her ten-year-old daughter, 'and you will be amazed'. She didn't reveal details during her lifetime, but somethi...

The gun in the title of Emma Brockes' extraordinary memoir belonged to her mother Paula, who left South Africa as a young woman in the 1960s to build a new life for herself in England, away from the trauma of her earlier years. 'One day I will tell you the story of my life', she promised her ten-year-old daughter, 'and you will be amazed'. She didn't reveal details during her lifetime, but somethi...

The gun in the title of Emma Brockes' extraordinary memoir belonged to her mother Paula, who left South Africa as a young woman in the 1960s to build a new life for herself in England, away from the trauma of her earlier years. 'One day I will tell you the story of my life', she promised her ten-year-old daughter, 'and you will be amazed'. She didn't reveal details during her lifetime, but somethi...

Nadeem Aslam, author of Maps for Lost Lovers and The Wasted Vigil, spoke to the Faber Podcast recently about his new novel The Blind Man's Garden, set in contemporary Afghanistan on the verge of war in the wake of 9/11. Nadeem also read three extracts from the book, which you can listen to here.

Nadeem Aslam, author of Maps for Lost Lovers and The Wasted Vigil, spoke to the Faber Podcast recently about his new novel The Blind Man's Garden, set in contemporary Afghanistan on the verge of war in the wake of 9/11. Nadeem also read three extracts from the book, which you can listen to here.