Faber & Faber : The Archive

The Faber Archive

Throughout the year we will be making more and more of our archive material available for you to view online. Click on the links below to plot your route through 80 years of history.

Try the Timeline Explorer

From Geoffrey Faber's founding of the company and the bringing on board of T. S. Eliot in 1925, to the Nobel laureates and major prize-winners of more recent years … Scroll through the nine decades of Faber history on our Timeline Explorer.

Faber on Flickr

Explore even more images of Faber items, artefacts and events on our Flickr pages. To include your own photos of Faber books, authors or events, just tag them as 'Faber_and_Faber' when you upload them to Flickr.

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Staff Archive Choices: Popular Medical Writing

Faber Editor Sarah Savitt is, by her own admission, incredibly squeamish but that hasn't stopped her from selecting three books from Faber's Popular Medical Writing archive for her choices, including Migraine, the first book published by Oliver Sacks. More

Staff Archive Choices: Books for Bon Viveurs

Head of the Faber Academy Patrick Keogh enjoys the finer things in life and, as one of several Faber foodies, it's no surprise that he's picked out a couple of food and wine books as his favourites from the vault. More

P. D. James : Cover Her Face (1962)

Published in 1962, Cover Her Face marked the start of the five-decade-long association between Faber and P. D. James. Now, with Cover Her Face available as a Faber First, P. D. James reveals the fortuitous set of circumstances that saw her succeed the great Cyril Hare. More

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Faber's Archivist Robert Brown, tells us about a resourceful cookery book from 1940 designed to overcome the monotony of a rationed wartime diet. But some of the dishes it describes will be quite shocking to the modern palate! More

An Audio Tour of the Faber Archive: Faber in the '30s & '40s

Moving on from the early years, our Archivist Robert Brown discusses the 1930s, the decade which saw the formation of the Book Committee. All sorts of books were considered - from James Joyce's Ulysses to a biography of Al Capone, cause of a great bust-up! More

A Celebration of Eighty Years of Book Cover Design: by Joseph Connolly

Joseph Connolly - novelist, book collector and antiquarian dealer - has compiled an impassioned guide and love letter to the designers, artists and authors at the heart of Faber's design story. Available in both hardback and paperback editions. More