Sara Talbot

Sales Director for Faber and the Independent Alliance. Giver of books, Friend of booksellers. [email protected]

[Queenʼs Park Book Festival @QPBookfest]

We're thrilled to launch our programme for this year's Festival!📚🌳

With incredible speakers including Alan Bennett, Michael Palin, @Elif_Safak, @CarolineLucas and more, we can't wait to welcome you back to Queen's Park.

Discover the full programme: https://t.co/gh1gW0cAiY

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

Sharing the cover for Intermezzo, the new novel from Sally Rooney. Coming 24 September.
Design by Kishan Rajani.

https://t.co/YObZGopzx1

[Waterstones @Waterstones]

The @WomensPrize Shortlist is here! Featuring characters navigating seismic changes in identity, reckoning with or accepting themselves, dealing with inherited trauma, or showing resilience in overcoming the weight of the past - discover them here: https://t.co/gBqDvkrRLx

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

Faber staff are taking the afternoon off to read Songlight by Moira Buffini, an extraordinary debut novel and the first in an epic trilogy set in a post-apocalyptic future, coming this August 💫

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

'As near an authentic slice of contemporary London life as any packed tube carriage.' Observer

It's finally Caledonian Road publication day!

To celebrate we've placed copies of Andrew O'Hagan's brilliant new novel along the Piccadilly Line. Let us know if you find one 👀

[Josh Smith @joshsm_th]

First Intermezzo event announced!

So thrilled that Sally Rooney will be back at the @southbankcentre and in the peerless company of @mervatim ☄️

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. But when the two strike up a conversation – awkward but electrifying – something life changing begins.
Our new edition of Normal People is out now from all good bookshops.

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

Coming this November, in the 20th anniversary year of Madvillainy, The Chronicles of DOOM by S. H. Fernando Jr. is the definitive biography of MF DOOM, charting the reclusive and revered hip-hop artist’s life & career.

Pre-order now @RoughTrade💥

https://t.co/pG3v2xCVtz

[Josh Smith @joshsm_th]

Intermezzo. The new novel from Sally Rooney. 24 September 2024.
https://t.co/kEXypbFt9V

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

The opening lines from Intermezzo, the new novel from Sally Rooney. Coming September 2024.

[Book Marketing Society @BMSoc]

And the Winners of the Guerrilla Award are Katie Hall, @sophiemerryday and Imogen Whiteley for their creative and clever campaign for #TheOrange Congratulations team! @FaberBooks #BMSAwards

[Aniefiok 'Neef' Ekpoudom @AniefiokEkp]

Where We Come From is out TODAY ❤️

A exploration of Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain. I’m officially a published author 🥳

https://t.co/VulaIYivco

[Sara Talbot @talbot_sara]

🎉🎉🎉🎉

[Book Marketing Society @BMSoc]

And the Adult Non-Fiction Award goes to #LetTheLightPourIn – massive congratulations to @rachelmayquin @alice_shortland @canongatebooks for their stunning and consistent campaign #BMSAwards

[Sara Talbot @talbot_sara]

Congratulations @FeliceTherese 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Book Marketing Society @BMSoc]

Highly Commended in the Debut category is the ambitious and creative campaign for #Kala – well done team Atlantic! @felicetherese @aimediocre @sofeeeee @Sawda_P @AtlanticBooks #BMSAwards

[Oneworld Publications @OneworldNews]

Huge congratulations to @paullynchwriter for winning The Booker Prize 2023!

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

If you're not able to visit your local independent bookshop in person this weekend, you can also support indie bookshops through @bookshop_org_UK, who are offering free delivery all weekend.

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

At Faber, we’re big fans of independent bookshops – they know what’s new and what’s good better than anyone else. As we get closer to the Christmas season, we’ve asked some of our favourite independent booksellers which books they’ve been loving.

https://t.co/b8wUV7f09B

[Sara Talbot @talbot_sara]

@tweetawix All gone I’m afraid!

[Sara Talbot @talbot_sara]

I may have a couple of proofs for quick-to-DM booksellers 👀👀📖📖

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

It's here! Introducing the cover for Andrew O'Hagan's irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel, Caledonian Road.

Coming 4 April 2024. Pre-order a signed copy now 👇

https://t.co/8pMiRWTj6I

[Waterstones @Waterstones]

From Barbara Kingsolver's @WomensPrize winning Demon Copperhead to the runaway success that is @BonnieGarmus' Lessons in Chemistry, 2023 has been teeming with exceptional paperbacks - find our favourites here: https://t.co/34Z0kdrFGp