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Upon Several Occasions Elizabeth Berridge

Elizabeth Berridge was an author much-admired by fellow authors - Deborah Moggach, Diana Athill, Francis King, to name just three. We're delighted then to have a number of her books in Faber Finds, including Touch and Go and Upon Several Occasions - two books that, as the author herself explains, complement each other very well. More

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Featured Book: My Cousin the Writer

Revolving around the makers and ardent fans of a daily radio soap, Paul Binding's My Cousin the Writer evokes a 1950s Britain of afternoon tea, National Service and rock 'n' roll - an era the author remembers with great fondness. Is it a case of art imitating life, or life imitating art? More

Featured Author: Joyce Cary

Doris Lessing, John Updike, Paul Theroux ... All fans of the prolific, if hard to categorize, Joyce Cary. Brian Glanville sums him up well: 'Joyce Cary's sheer versatility is breathtaking. He writes with equal insight and narrative brilliance about life as varied as that in Nigeria, rural Ireland and Bohemian London'. More

A Doctor's Life: A Father's Diaries

Hugh Selbourne's diaries A Doctor's Life provide a fascinating insight into the worlds of medicine, patients and British life in the early '60s, and also into the mind of a man and father who was physician, bibliophile and diarist. His son, David, reminds us of their lasting appeal. More

'All Human Life Really is Here': Mass Observation Appreciation

Millions of words on mundane subjects - from pubs to war memorials, written by an army of 'Mass Observers', combined to form a 'people's history'. The MO books continue to be a vital resource, as writers and historians testify. More

John Hanning Speke: The Victorian Explorer

Alexander Maitland's superlative study of the life of John Hanning Speke arose from an exploration of his own - of the great Victorian explorer's life, and the circumstances of his untimely demise. First published in 1971, Maitland provides a new introduction. More

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