'Elms is one of the greatest chroniclers of our age. He was born to write this book' Dylan Jones 'Elms was not only in the room where it happened, he was at the very heart of it' Gary Kemp Blitz: The Club That Created the Eighties by Robert Elms is published in paperback today.

✨ 'Rundell is the real deal, a writer of boundless gifts and extraordinary imaginative power' Observer Napoleon's Orangutan: A Collection of Miraculous Creatures by Katherine Rundell, beautifully illustrated by Chris Wormell, is out today ✨

A guest at a New Year’s Eve rooftop party finds a parallel universe in the building next door. A woman discovers her boyfriend's family are all made of cookie dough. Minihorror, the darkly surreal short story collection from Barbi Marković and translated by Jen Calleja is out this month 📚

And finally a round-up of our Partita publication celebrations! We teamed up with music schools and bookshops across the country to have student pianists accompanying shoppers, including the Faber offices. Here's two of our student pianists in action 🎹

💫 'Tess of the d’Urbervilles for the 21st century' The Times 💫 'Full of pathos, wisdom and humour’ Spectator 💫 'A dazzling follow-up to Demon Copperhead' Financial Times 💫 'The writing is gorgeous – simple but lyrical' Good Housekeeping 💫 ‘A big, twisting love story rich with passion' Sunday Times

‘I finally found my doorway into this novel the day I started hearing the voice of this narrator in my ear, this boy that I called Demon Copperhead’

From Demon Copperhead, originally published in the UK in 2022.

Here’s what some of our Faber Creators community love the most about Barbara Kingsolver’s writing 🧡 ‘She writes from the heart’ ‘The narration feels so real’ ‘The depth of the characters’ ‘It is so transportative for the reader’ ‘There is always so much to unpack’ ‘Characters that stay with you’

‘I always come to a novel with a big question’ Barbara photographed by her husband, Stephen Hopp, found in the Faber Archive.