Michel Faber: Faith, Unfaith, Fiction

Born in the Netherlands, raised in Australia and now a UK resident, Michel Faber is the author of multiple novels and short stories, as well as poetry and nonfiction. Among his works, some of which have been adapted for screen and radio, are Whitbread-shortlisted ‘Under the Skin’ (2000), the international bestseller ‘The Crimson Petal and the White’ (2002), ‘The Fire Gospel’ (2008), ‘The Book of Strange New Things’ (2014), the poetry collection ‘Undying’ (2016) and recent nonfiction book, ‘LISTEN: On Music, Sound and Us’ (2023).

Rodge Glass is the author of eight books published since 2005: three novels (‘No Fireworks’, ‘Hope for Newborns’ & ‘Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs’), one graphic novel (‘Dougie's War’, with Dave Turbitt), one collection of short stories (‘Stories for the EasyJet Generation’), two biographies (‘Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography’ & ‘Michel Faber: The Writer & his Work’) and most recently ‘Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir’ (Taproot Press, September 2024). His work has been nominated for multiple national or international awards and he's the winner of a Somerset Maugham Award for Nonfiction. He has written children's audio stories for BBC Sounds and recently won the Anne Brown Essay Prize, for 'On the Covenant', which is a chapter from Joshua in the Sky.