Michel Faber
Michel Faber has written nine books. In addition to the Whitbread-shortlisted Under the Skin, he is the author of the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, The Book of Strange New Things, which was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and won the 2015 Saltire Book of the Year, and most recently Undying, his first poetry collection. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the UK.
Undying
‘Michel Faber addressed these love poems to his wife after her death. They are lucid, tender and wise, and they pulse with this fine writer’s intelligence’ - Ian McEwan
“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.