Faber celebrates anniversary with reader competition

Your chance to win special commemorative editions

7 September 2009

To mark Faber and Faber's 80th anniversary as one of the great independent publishing houses, it is offering Man Booker Prize website readers the chance to win an incredible package of Faber books.

Faber and Faber was founded by Geoffrey Faber in 1929,  with T. S. Eliot  joining in the role of editor shortly afterwards . This year it celebrates eighty years of independence.

Faber and Faber can boast six winners in the history of the Booker Prize - DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little - Man Booker Prize winner in 2003), Peter Carey (True History of the Kelly Gang - Booker Prize winner in 2001 and Oscar and Lucinda - Booker Prize winner in 1988), Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day - Booker Prize winner in 1989), William Golding (Rites of Passage - Booker Prize winner in 1980) and the prize's first ever winner - P H Newby  (Something to Answer For - Booker Prize winner in 1969).

Faber and Faber author Sarah Hall was longlisted this year (2009) with her novel How to Paint a Dead Man.

Faber and Faber are offering an incredible anniversary prize to our readers. It includes Faber Firsts - a set of nine repackaged debuts including first novels from Booker Prize winners Peter Carey and Kazuo Ishiguro; Poetry Classics - six repackaged poetry collections ,  a copy of Eighty Years of Book Cover Design  and a new edition of T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats illustrated by Axel Scheffler, all delivered in a special commemorative bag.

Readers can enter the competition here.

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