A brilliant premise: 5 speakers, each with 15 minutes to enlighten and entertain.

‘Picture a mobile village green preservation society, wending its way across London’s five host boroughs for London 2012, stopping off to lead foraging walks or geology talks. Think of it as a very British version of Ken Kesey’s magic bus’ …

Faber author Sam Taylor has begun to offer summer writing holidays at his home in southwest France, sharing his experiences and guiding budding authors through the novel-writing process.

‘One of the things I realised was that novels are about not following the rules.’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley discusses her new book.

As the editor of ‘Hang the DJ’, and a man, I’m obviously a fan of lists, but this is one of the better features that they regularly run on the Guardian’s book pages …

‘Anyone who has read our latest Hanno Stiffeniis mystery, A Visible Darkness, may be interested to know where the principal ideas for the book came from.’ Specifically, what’s the significance of Baltic amber? Michael Gregorio tell us.

Our occasional round-up of Faber author activity returns, with special thanks to the BBC, which provides most of the links. Authors featured include John Caird, Emily Woof, Hanif Kureishi and Lucy Worsley.

Launched in October 2008, the Faber Academy has gone from strength to strength. What began at Shakespeare & Co in Paris is now about to open a new outpost in Canada. But where to next? Online? You tell us!

Faber Finds, our print-on-demand list, makes great books available once more. We also have an archive of ‘bonus’ material – articles explaining more about the books. Here acclaimed biographer Fiona MacCarthy describes what compelled her to write The Simple Life, her account of an Edwardian social experiment.

This is one of our favourite sites on the web – a brilliantly curated site aggregating great video and audio covering debate, events and controversies in the worlds of the media, culture, politics, technology and more.

Faber’s Publisher and CEO Stephen Page, in an article printed in The Bookseller on 5th February, calls for an open and integrated process for establishing a fair ebook royalty.

Our weekly round-up of recent coverage online for Faber books and authors, and anything else that catches the Thought Fox’s eye, featuring Edna O’Brien, Peter Brook, and more.

Granta 108: Chicago, published towards the end of last year, is a great read and featured an extract from Peter Carey’s new novel, Parrot and Olivier in America. Here’s Granta’s John Freeman’s interview with Peter Carey filmed in New York.

Featured recently in the Guardian’s look at what will be an exciting year ahead for feminism, Kat Banyard, in her new book The Equality Illusion, examines the truth about men and women today.

Throughout the past year, Faber staff have been picking out their favourites from the Faber Archive. Starting off is London Account Manager Jeremy Wood, who selects some Larkin, an overlooked American great, and an artist’s experiences of war.

Jonathen Lethem’s fiction is infused with popular culture references – films, music, comics and superheroes. For Chronic City, he’s compiled a Perkus Tooth-inspired playlist for your listening pleasure [via Washington City Paper].