THE THOUGHT FOX | Books and Culture from Faber & Faber

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Letters from Moomin Valley+

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Author of The Home Corner Ruth Thomas describes growing up as a book illustrator’s daughter – and the summer she...

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Stanley Donwood Draws Trees+

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‘Stanley Donwood draws trees’ screamed the headline on Radiohead’s Dead Air Space site! Stanley Donwood, as well as being the...

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Why First Drafts Are Like Sharks OR How Not to Start Your Novel …+

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Recently, I began writing my new novel. I wrote 9,000 words in the first two days, a personal best. But...

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A Holloway Soundscape+

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A stereo field recording by James Bulley inspired by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards’ book Holloway. James Bulley...

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Frank McGuinness in Conversation: Part Two+

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This month sees the London première of a new play by one of Ireland’s greatest playwrights. Frank McGuinness’s The Match...

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On the Making of the Original Edition of Holloway+

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The original printing of Holloway was undertaken in Oxford in the Spring of 2012 by Richard Lawrence – a letterpress...

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Auster & Coetzee: Here and Now+

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‘Writing is a matter of giving and giving and giving,’ J. M. Coetzee tells Paul Auster near the end of...

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Marble Season+

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Marbles, comics, superheroes, trading-cards, the Beatles, brothers, neighbours, girls, fights, sunshine … Marble Season by Gilbert Hernandez Comics legend Gilbert...

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The Unseen World of Stav Sherez+

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Around this time last year a global campaign was launched to expose the plight of child soldiers in Uganda. Torn...

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