Michel Faber
MICHEL FABER has written seven other books, including the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, The Fahrenheit Twins and the Whitbread-shortlisted novel Under the Skin. The Apple, based on characters in The Crimson Petal and the White, was published in 2006. He has also written two novellas, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps (2001) and The Courage Consort (2002), and has won several short-story awards, including the Neil Gunn, Ian St James and Macallan. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the UK.
Listen, by turns discursive, celebratory and reflective, is a beautifully written and endlessly readable paean to music, examining both the role that it plays in our lives and what it has meant to Faber himself.
Observer
“The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory”
The Book of Strange New Things
Michel Faber on Start the Week – along with writer William Gibson, LSE Professor Judy Wajcman and historian Dominic Sandbrook – talking science fiction and The Book of Strange New Things.
Start the Week
BBC
A fascinating visual breakdown of some of the effects in the Amazon pilot Oasis, based on The Book of Strange New Things.
The Book of Strange New Things
Michel Faber visits the Guardian’s books podcast, to talk about The Book of Strange New Things, and the separations of cosmic distance and death.
Books podcast
Guardian
Michel Faber reads ‘Don’t Hesitate to Ask’ from Undying
The Book of Strange New Things
“A powerful and, one suspects, personal meditation on the limitations of the flesh, and the capacity of either love or faith to endure extreme pressure”
Stephanie Merritt
Guardian
Listen to an extract from The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber, read by Josh Cohen.
“The abandoned universe was such a weird place, because even though it had been shut down for ever, there were still lights on inside, as if nothing had changed”
Undere the Skin – the official film trailer.